Phase 4: Wireless Women for Education and Empowerment (2014-2015)
- Supported 50 women in five communities to create Internet-based social enterprises that are owned and managed by women.
- Five communities selected include Baran in Rajasthan, Chanderi and Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh, Ranchi in Jharkhand, and Tura in Meghalaya.
- Women participated in a six-month training to develop their online skills to run their enterprises. They were also provided with hardware, software and wireless Internet access for their enterprises.
- Developed a website to document the women’s stories.
- Many of the women established and managed their own community information resource centres.
- Many women also became trainers and trained women and girls in their own villages. In Chanderi, 4,000 women and girls were trained this way.
