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Ravi Ghate
from Zerofor Zeros !
Dil
Se !
.
a journey of 15 years
practicing
ICT for Rural Development !
(especially for down trodden
& vulnerable communities.)
Year 1999-
Innovated Local
SMS
Community
Newsletter
concept. 550 +
communities
created
employment to
the dropouts,
failed rural
youths!
Year 2006-
Year 2006-
Year 2008-till
Mobile 4
Minority
Empowerment
Created a SMS group of 15,000 minority
(Muslim) youths . Socio-eco-edu alerts through
SMS and village/mohalla notice boards. Met
Year 2008-till
Behtar
Mehtar
Year 2008-till
Year 2008-till
Hiware Bazaar
mVilla
ge
Year 2008-till
Digital
Panchayat
Year 2010-till
eNGO
Year 2012-till
Year 2011
hed first JanLokpal Awareness campaign amongst 250,000 Puneties!
Year 2012-
Year 2012-
Formed Drought Help Group with help from 35 friends! Direct -Transparent
Accountable Facebook Group! 3 principles Not to touch money, no fame,
no credits!
DHG
Links
DHG
Web
Village level
ICT
Watchdog
Year 2012-
Year 2012-
Water Tanks for Cattles, Wild animals, fodder for affected cattle, Cow shelters
encouraged!
Year 2012-
Year 2012
Year 2012
Year 2012
Year 2012
Year 2012
Year 2013
Ravi Ghate
hank You
Year
2014
Brief Profile
A true disciple of Late Shri Balasaheb Bharade ( Great Gandhian Thinker & former Speaker of Maharashtra
Assembly), Ravi Ghate, a Pune based Social Worker, has always focused his entire activities for the
empowerment and upliftment of rural & deprived class of the society using Information Communication
Technologies for a larger impact.
With a tagline of "From Zero-For Zeros", Ravi Ghate is thriving to empower masses using ICT based platforms
from last 15 years. He is recipient of National Youth Award 2005-06, apex award for Youth Social Workers in the
country, at the auspicious hands of then President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam for his outstanding work in spreading
Computer Literacy across the state of Maharashtra, especially in rural, tribal and backward areas.
He is innovator of "Local SMS Community Newsletter", which won many awards and accolades including
Manthan Award, NASSCOM Social Innovation Honor, Clinton Global Initiatives YES Fund Award. This idea stood
among TOP 15 PUBLICLY VOTED "Mobile 4 Empowerment" ideas in the WORLD. SMSONE was ranked among
HOT 5 start-ups in 2010 by Forbes India Magazine & FastCompany, USA.
His innovative project eduVARTA won the prestigious "Mobile for Good" Award of Vodafone India Foundation
worth Rs.10 Lakhs. He used this money to alert & update 1,20,000 Schedules cast/Scheduled Tribes/Nomad
Tribes students.
Recently his efforts of helping drought affected using Social Media ranked amongst Top 5 Social Media Projects
in the country. A group of 100 + Empowerment Catalysts worked towards reducing the pains in drought
affected areas. A direct giving model was set which bypassed NGOs and middlemens and because of which Rs.
85 Lakh worth works were reported whose government valuation is over Rs. 2 Cr.
His other projects include Digital Community for Mehtar Walmikis (4500 families), Mobile for Minority
Empowerment (15,500 families), Urban to Rural Student Mentoring (25,000 + students), mVillage enriches
villagers with vital rural information through SMS.He is now working with Digital Empowerment Foundations to
create an App which will cater citizens with state government programs and welfare schemes with entire
support system.10 states work has been completed till date.
Many research students published papers on his innovation. To name a few, Oxford University, Stanford
University, IIM-A, IIT-B, UNESCO, FICCI etc. Washington Post, Fast Company, Tech-Crunch & many other national-