Earlier today: Atishi visits one of our FREE/DEM Community Media Paathshaalas in Kalkaji, New Delhi & meets the trainees learning #digitalfactchecking, #audio & #video production. FreeDem (1/n)

The FREE/DEM Digital Media & Information Literacy Paathshaala for women & girls is a unique programme that works out of a bag full of smartphones that are carried into communities by our trainers - and reach women in their mohullas & lanes. #DMIL FreeDem (2/n)

IdeosyncMediaCombine Atishi FreeDem FreeDem DMIL pathshala is emerging as an important route to women and girls empowerment and way to address online GBV

Delighted to have Kailash Gahlot, the hon'ble minister for women & child development, Govt of Delhi, at our FreeDem Media Paathshaala event in #Najafgarh yesterday! Here's looking forward to expanding the initiative with more women & girls in the area! #DMIL #FREEDEM

Survivors of domestic violence are often questioned for continuing to stay with their abuser and faced with victim blaming. In this poscast, host Heena uncovers the complexities of abuse & relationship with a survivor of violence #16DaysofActivismAgainstGBV #16Days #PushForward

Children witnessing violence are often invisibilized and their experiences go unheard. ln this podcast, host Swati, FreeDem Fellow, discusses the impact of witnessing domestic abuse and physical violence on children and adolescents. #16Days #16DaysOfActivismAgainstGBV #EndGBV

Delighted that The Hindu covered our FreeDem initiative, which teaches #DMIL skills to women & girls in slum areas in peri-urban Delhi. Hugely important to address the #digitaldivide, and especially the #gender dimensions of that divide. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/…

The FreeDem initiative has seen so many young girls reclaim the #online #space #digitalliteracy #medialiteracy #participatory #communication

Small error, though: The article calls FREE/DEM an NGO. FreeDem is actually an initiative of IdeosyncMediaCombine, which works on issues of #mediaccess, #mediademocratisation & #FoE. Vaishna Roy Frontline

CNBC-TV18 covers our FreeDem initiative as part of its #ChangingIndia special on the #DigitalDivide. Watch the full programme here: youtube.com/watch?v=vRf1Uc… (Thanks CNBC-TV18 !) #DigitalInclusion #Gender #CommRights #DigitalRights waccglobal EMpower

The latest #ASER report underlines the stark divide in #digitalaccess between rural & urban populations - as well as the vital need for #DMIL training for #women & #girls in #marginalised communities. That’s what our FreeDem initiative has been doing for the last 8 years!

Congratulations to the #FREEDEMSoliga volunteers and team! Welcome to the initiative, and we hope it will help you all build #DMIL skills that will help your community engage with #onlineresources and #digitaltools safely, equitably and responsibly!

We're so delighted that the FREE/DEM initiative and our Fellows have been featured in UN Women India's new book #हम, featuring women and girls who are trailblazers in their fields! What an honour for us to be in the company of such great women! #Hum #WomenWhoLead IdeosyncMediaCombine

Ideosync's N.Ramakrishnan will be at #IAMCR2024 in Christchurch later this week to present research from our FreeDem intervention with #Soliga tribal communities in Karnataka. Co-authored with Venu Arora, the paper presents new insights on #DMIL & #culturalpreservation

The research examines contrasts between the various contexts the FreeDem programme works in - and the hidden tensions inspired by #digitalmedia and #internetacess within indigenous communities. Jindal School of Journalism & Communication (JSJC) JGU