Drishtee
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Drishtee is an India
based business that provides information technology
goods and services to rural India through village kiosks that are run and managed by local entrepreneurs. These kiosks are developed using a franchise and partnership model.
Some of the services provided by Drishtee include computer education, English courses, rural BPO, government services, health, insurance, e-commerce, microfinance etc. Through its low cost, direct delivery network of over 2,400 kiosks, Drishtee has impacted the lives of over 1.5 Million people in rural India. One of Drishtee's primary objectives is to empower rural communities by supporting local entrepreneurship and thus helping to stem the distress migration of people from rural to urban parts of the country. The organization was founded in 2000 and is currently led by its co-founder and Managing Director - Mr. Satyan Mishra.
In its effort to bring critical services to rural India, which is home for more than 60% of the country's population, Drishtee has partnered with the following organizations:
Drishtee works in collaboration with several of its sister organizations that provide specialized services to rural India. Some of these organizations are:
Drishtee has been felicitated with the following accolades in recent times:
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based business that provides information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
goods and services to rural India through village kiosks that are run and managed by local entrepreneurs. These kiosks are developed using a franchise and partnership model.
Some of the services provided by Drishtee include computer education, English courses, rural BPO, government services, health, insurance, e-commerce, microfinance etc. Through its low cost, direct delivery network of over 2,400 kiosks, Drishtee has impacted the lives of over 1.5 Million people in rural India. One of Drishtee's primary objectives is to empower rural communities by supporting local entrepreneurship and thus helping to stem the distress migration of people from rural to urban parts of the country. The organization was founded in 2000 and is currently led by its co-founder and Managing Director - Mr. Satyan Mishra.
In its effort to bring critical services to rural India, which is home for more than 60% of the country's population, Drishtee has partnered with the following organizations:
- Acumen FundAcumen FundAcumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Its aim is to help build financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor...
- Amaron Batteries
- ICICI Prudential
- International Finance CorporationInternational Finance CorporationThe International Finance Corporation promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States....
(IFC) - MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
- Scojo
- State Bank of IndiaState Bank of IndiaThe State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...
Drishtee works in collaboration with several of its sister organizations that provide specialized services to rural India. Some of these organizations are:
- Quiver Infoservices
- Cyber InfoDev
- Drishtee Foundation
Drishtee has been felicitated with the following accolades in recent times:
- Ashoka Foundation Fellowship Award, 2004 - Awarded to founder, Mr. Satyan Mishra
- Red Herring 100 Asia Award, 2006
- Deloitte FAST 50 (Asia), 2006 - Winner
- Tech Pioneer, 2007 - Award given by World Economic ForumWorld Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
- Invitation to the Clinton Global Initiative, 2007