With the aim to facilitate individuals and organizations in using social media for self-development and also sharing the best practices, the Digital Empowerment Foundation New Delhi organized a one day workshop on “Social Media for Empowerment” at Hotel Vivor on March 31, 2015. This was held in collaboration with the American centre, New Delhi and supported by YouthNet Nagaland, wherein MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
Cloud Evangelist Sunny Sharma (Funder Foetron.com) spoke on the “Status of Social Media from a National Perspective” and “Reflecting on How Social Media has been the Reason and Solution for crisis in North East at different times” while IT Programme Consultant, Yanpvuo Kikon spoke on ‘Social Media, Enabler for a Smarter Government and Progressive Society’ and Ravi Guria, Deputy Programme Director, Media and Communications, Digital Empowerment Foundation New Delhi talked about ‘How Organizations can adopt Social Media as an Effective Tool for Communications and Outreach.’
This was followed by another workshop in December 2015 for NGO empowerment using technology.