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A true disciple of Late Shri Balasaheb Bharade ( Great Gandhian Thinker), 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 60,000 SC/ST/NT 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 middlemen’s 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 – Walmiki’s (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-international media houses published his stories.He is 12th pass from a Jr College in Pune. His life mission is “Information for Transformation” using ICTs, especially for down - trodden and vulnerable communities, which is in-line with MANTRA given by his Guru Shri Balasaheb Bharade…. “Upekshitancha Pratinidhi Ho!” “Become a leader of depriveds' !”

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Ravi Ghatefrom Zerofor Zeros !

Dil Se !.a journey of 15 years practicingICT for Rural Development !

(especially for down trodden & vulnerable communities.)www.RaviGhate.com

Established a network of 750 computer training centers for computer literacy program. Literates 250,000 + rural, tribal, backward students!Year 1999-2005

Innovated Local SMS Community Newsletter concept. 550 + communities created employment to the dropouts, failed rural youths!Year 2006-2011

Police, Schools- Parents, Teachers, Govt Departments weaved through SMS Communities in 2006Year 2006-2011

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 through SMS.Year 2008-till date

Created a SMS group of 15,000 minority (Muslim) youths . Socio-eco-edu alerts through SMS and village/mohalla notice boards. Met Nobel Laurel Dr Muhammed Yunus. Year 2008-till dateMobile 4 Minority Empowerment

Inspired from Amir Khans Dignity for all created Indias first Digital Community of 4.5K Mehtar-Walmiki families! Most vulnerable community in India cleaning human waste by hands. United, Informed, Empowered them!Year 2008-till dateBehtar Mehtar

Urban 2 Rural Student Mentoring! 4th year! Won M4G Award! 10 Lakhs! Pure knowledge sharing! U2R Career Guidance eliminates cast, class, financial, prejudice bias! 30,000+ rural, backward benefited!Year 2008-till date

Initiated mVillage! Every household connected in a village! BottomUp Information for Villagers.Year 2008-till dateHiware BazaarmVillage

Digital Empowerment Foundations Digital Panchayat project initiated & connected all villages in a Block ! Appreciated Nationwide!Year 2010-till dateDigital Panchayat

Digital Empowerment Foundations eNGO project implemented across 30 districts developing around 250+ websites !Year 2012-till dateeNGO

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

Maharashtra witnessed worst ever Drought after 1972Year 2012-201314

No water to drink! For humansfor cattle! Less Water Intake Skin ErosionYear 2012-2013Formed Drought Help Group with help from 35 friends! Direct -Transparent Accountable Facebook Group! 3 principles Not to touch money, no fame, no credits!

DHG LinksDHG Web

Village levelICT Watchdog

Year 2012-2013

Donated 800+ Water Tanks in 5 districts! Mr Kedar Vanjape donated Rs. 2.5 Million for Water Tanks! Many individuals donated !

Year 2012-2013

Water Tanks for Cattles, Wild animals, fodder for affected cattle, Cow shelters encouraged!Year 2012-2013

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 non-Indians!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 that post down. But if majority reports it spam, it takes 5 min.Year 2014

Social Peace Force! 30,000 members! Avoided chaos 3 times to keep city and nation peaceful! Youths become Real Peace Keepers!

Year 2014

Ravi GhateNational 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 work!Year 2005-2006

Thank YouRavi Ghate, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIANational Youth Awardee - Social EntrepreneurCell +91 98225 22 333 | email: [email protected] | www.RaviGhate.com

Year 201429Brief 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-international media houses published his stories. He is 12th pass from a Jr College in Pune. His life mission is Information for Transformation using ICTs, especially for down - trodden and vulnerable communities, which is in-line with MANTRA given by his Guru Shri Balasaheb Bharade. Upekshitancha Pratinidhi Ho! Become leader of depriveds !