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www.RaviGhate.

com

Ravi Ghate
from Zerofor Zeros !

Dil
Se !
.

a journey of 15 years
practicing
ICT for Rural Development !
(especially for down trodden
& vulnerable communities.)

Established a network of 750


computer training centers for
computer literacy program. Literates
250,000 + rural, tribal, backward
students!

Year 1999-

Innovated Local
SMS
Community
Newsletter
concept. 550 +
communities
created
employment to
the dropouts,
failed rural
youths!

Year 2006-

Police, Schools- Parents, Teachers,


Govt Departments weaved through
SMS Communities in 2006

Year 2006-

While working in the


country, we found,
Indian Youths are
becoming
Voluntarily Violent.
Why?

Created a SMS group of 120,000


Schedules cast-Scheduled tribes
youths. Socio-eco-edu alerts

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

Inspired from Amir Khans


Dignity for all created
Indias first Digital
Community of 4.5K MehtarWalmiki families! Most
vulnerable community in
India cleaning human waste

Year 2008-till

Urban 2 Rural Student Mentoring! 4th year! Won M4G


Award! 10 Lakhs! Pure knowledge sharing! U2R Career
Guidance eliminates cast, class, financial, prejudice bias!

Year 2008-till

Hiware Bazaar

mVilla
ge

Initiated mVillage! Every


household connected in a
village! BottomUp Information
for Villagers.

Year 2008-till

Digital
Panchayat

Digital Empowerment Foundations


Digital Panchayat project initiated &
connected all villages in a Block !

Year 2010-till

eNGO

Digital Empowerment Foundations


eNGO project implemented across 30
districts developing around 250+

Year 2012-till

Year 2011
hed first JanLokpal Awareness campaign amongst 250,000 Puneties!

Maharashtra witnessed worst ever Drought


after 1972

Year 2012-

No water to drink! For humansfor cattle! Less Water Intake

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-

Donated 800+ Water


Tanks in 5 districts! Mr
Kedar Vanjape donated
Rs. 2.5 Million for
Water Tanks! Many

Year 2012-

Water Tanks for Cattles, Wild animals, fodder for affected cattle, Cow shelters
encouraged!

Year 2012-

No water to drink! Special Girls hygiene was on anvil?


Supplied Sanitary Napkins to Special Girls schools in 5
districts for4 months.

Year 2012

Worst affected Block in MH! Atpadi in Sangli Dist! 8 Channels


were excavated!

Year 2012

Mr Bhushan Krishan donated for this directly! Govt cost


15,00,000 Rs. Our cost th 350,000 Rs.!

Year 2012

Year 2012

Year 2012

Facebook stories covered our efforts to


celebrate their 100 M user base in
India! Story shared by 2700 nonIndians!
8.5 M Rs work worth Govt cost 20M Rs.

Year 2013

Some posts on FB damaging our National Heroes images turned


into riots & an innocent lost his life! FB takes 24 hours to take
Year 2014
that post down. But if majority reports it spam, it takes 5 min.

Social Peace Force! 30,000 members! Avoided chaos 3 times to


keep city and nation peaceful! Youths become Real Peace
Year 2014
Keepers!

Ravi Ghate

National Youth Awardee (India)

Received National Youth Award at the


hands of then President of India His
Excellency Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. This
award is bestowed upon best 25 youths
doing exemplary work in the country for
my decade of offline and 5 years of online
Year 2005work!

hank You

Ravi Ghate, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA

Year
2014

National Youth Awardee - Social Entrepreneur


Cell +91 98225 22 333 | email: ravighate@gmail.com | www.RaviGhate.com

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-

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