Digital inclusion and connectivity
Internet access, devices and the confidence to use them - for schools, health centres and households that the network reached last.
260
Connectivity sites running
310
Schools connected
42,000
People within walk of a site
94%
Sites still live after 12 months
What the problem actually is.
India crossed a billion connections years ago, but the last stretch is the hardest one. A village can sit inside a coverage map and still have no usable connection at the school, no device a child can practise on, and nobody in the household who has filled in an online form before. Coverage is not access.
We work on all three at once. We fund and install connectivity at community anchor points - schools, primary health centres, panchayat offices and libraries - because a single reliable link that a whole village can walk to changes more than a hundred patchy private ones. Dollu Ltd contributes bandwidth, engineering time and hardware at cost, which is why a rupee given here goes further than it would through a purely grant-funded route.
Then we stay. A connection nobody maintains is dead within a year, so every site comes with a local steward who is trained and paid a stipend, a fault-reporting route into a real support desk, and a yearly check. We would rather run 260 sites that work than claim a thousand that do not.
Who this is for: Rural schools, primary health centres, low-income urban wards, and households with no prior internet use.
The work, specifically.
Each of these is funded with its running costs included - stipends, repairs, follow-up - because that is what decides whether it survives past the first year.
Community connectivity points
Broadband or fixed-wireless links at schools, health centres, panchayat offices and libraries, with a trained local steward for each site.
Device libraries
Refurbished laptops and tablets lent out the way books are, so a family does not need to own a device for a child to practise on one.
Internet literacy classes
Short, practical courses: government portals, banking safety, spotting fraud, video calls to relatives, finding work.
Public Wi-Fi in underserved wards
Free access points in dense urban wards where households cannot carry a monthly data cost.
Site upkeep and repair
A maintained fault line, spare hardware and an annual service visit, so a site that goes down comes back.
260
Connectivity sites running
310
Schools connected
42,000
People within walk of a site
94%
Sites still live after 12 months
Named projects inside this programme.
Uttar Pradesh · since 2020
Connected Classrooms
A connected, maintained computer lab in every government secondary school in the districts we work in.
How it works →
Three things that would make a difference here.
- Fund a site for a year - hardware, install, stewardship and support.
- Donate working laptops or tablets to a device library.
- Volunteer to teach an internet literacy batch near you.
Contributes to
- SDG 4 Quality education
- SDG 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- SDG 10 Reduced inequalities
Related programmes
Fund it, staff it, or send us your old laptops.
Tell us which programme interests you and roughly what you have in mind - money, equipment, time or expertise - and we will come back with something specific rather than a brochure.
