Ashoka Law for All Initiative is delighted to invite you to "digitALL: Access To Rights & Rights To Access", celebrating 20 changemaking years of Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF).

Time: 4 – 9 PM, 4 May 2023

Venue: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)

Domlur, Indiranagar, Bangalore 

DEF is a not-for-profit founded by senior Ashoka Fellow Osama Manzar. Since its foundation 20 years back, DEF has moved the needle for three crores of Indians, digitally unconnected and marginalized despite their grassroots wisdom. We invite you to join us, experience DEF's intimate journey through art, music, and storytelling, and reimagine together that "digital rights are human rights". 

➚ PROGRAMME

SHOWCASE @ BIC FOYER AREA^* 🢂

❮ South Asia Global Innovations: 4 – 5 PM ❯ 

— Meet the digital innovators from across India through exposition, films, games, interactivity, art show, digital cultural expose, digital rights gallery, internet-in-a-box, digital women entrepreneurs, Wi-Fi women engineers from Assam's tea gardens, digital artisans and weavers, MakerSpace builders, community networks, heritage and preservation

— Stories of National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM), NetNeutrality; Common Service Center (CSCs), and digitally-literate despite Illiteracy

— Women fighting patriarchy and gendered digital divide through digital empowerment

CONVERSATIONS @ BIC AUDITORIUM^** 🢂

❮ Access to Rights and Rights to Access Panel Discussion: 5 – 7 PM ❯

— 5 – 5:45 PM: Panel Discussion about policy advocacy in the law and justice sector with Senior Ashoka Fellow Osama Manzar and Ashoka Virtual Special Relations Nikita Sonavane, Mohit Raj, and Ashwini Kulkarni, curated by Subhashish Panigrahi, director of Law for All Initiative, Ashoka

— 5.50 – 6.35 PM: Conversation between Priya Ramani, noted journalist and co-founder of India Love Project and Article 14, and Osama Manzar, Sr. Ashoka Fellow, on his journey to 10,000 Indian villages furthering digital rights and access

— 6.40 – 7 PM: Jan Jaati ki Awaaz and Digital Rights (a poetry session by Nitesh Bhardwaj, Founder, Aadiwasi Janjagruti, an organization working to bring social justice and create hyperlocal social awareness in Maharashtra's Nandurbar District)

SHOWCASE OF 20 YEARS OF DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT: 7 – 7:30 PM @ FOYER 🢂

— Chai-Shai 

— Meeting Grassroots Digital Innovations and Practitioners 

— Exhibition and Shows

CONVERSATION @ AUDITORIUM 🢂

❮ Un(connected) Women: 7:30 – 8:15PM ❯

— Conversation with grassroots women digital changemakers, curated by Natasha Badhwar, India’s first news camerawoman, noted journalist, author and filmmaker

— Cultural Performance by Vasu Dixit

8:45 PM ONWARDS: DINNER & NETWORKING @ FOYER 🢂

NOTE

1. BIC AUDITORIUM is a large auditorium in the ground floor of BIC

2. BIC FOYER AREA is an open space right next to the BIC registration desk