Digital enablement of grassroots organisations in Kanpur

An ICT Capacity Building workshop was organised for social sector representatives on September 9, 2016, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Around 40 organisations attended the workshop where they learnt about ICT, digital tools, website management and crowdfunding. The aim of the workshop was to make the participants aware of digital tools and how these can help them in gaining visibility and promoting their work. Hosting a good website and ensuring its continuous maintenance is essential for a strong “online presence”. Moreover, the organisations, through a hands-on training session, also realised that maintain a website, especially on WordPress, is not a difficult task. By the end of the workshop, 12 of the 40 participating organisations had agreed to become dot ngo adopters; and our objective of building and enhancing each participant’s overall learning of various digital tools was met successfully.