Digital Green Prakriya – In this project, through capacity building, DEF aims to contribute to reducing the negative environmental impact of digital technologies, promote digital safety and care, and generate awareness of the proper management of electronic waste. The initiative’s holistic design will ensure that the community centres work at multiple levels enabling productive outcomes for a circular economy in the community.

Through the community-driven solution of developing a repair ecosystem and appropriate management of e-waste, DEF wants to encourage digital citizenship and accountability in the use of electronic goods. The community centres will build local-level capacity. By imparting repair skills, the centres will develop a duty of care towards electronic goods and a sense of fulfilling digital ownership. Lessons on digital ethics, use of electronic goods and eco-consciousness work at impacting behavioural change and thus reducing technology’s negative impact on the environment.