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Prince Dubey’s journey shows determination meeting the right opportunity.Coming from a middle-class family in Bengaluru ...
19/09/2026

Prince Dubey’s journey shows determination meeting the right opportunity.
Coming from a middle-class family in Bengaluru with limited industry exposure, Prince knew building a career in technology would require more than academic knowledge. While pursuing his B.Tech, he worked to strengthen his technical foundation, communication skills, presentation abilities, and interview readiness.

Through Nasscom Foundation’s Training and Placement Program, supported by Capgemini, he received structured training, mentorship and real-time project exposure that helped him prepare for the professional world with greater confidence.

That preparation led to a significant milestone. He secured his first professional opportunity as a Data Analyst at DIIPL, Noida.

For him, this was not just a placement. It was a step toward financial independence, responsibility, and the confidence to support his family. His journey reminds us that when young learners receive the right skilling support, they do not just become employable; they begin to see a future they can build for themselves.

What does good programme management actually look like?It goes beyond reports, processes and numbers. It is about stayin...
18/09/2026

What does good programme management actually look like?

It goes beyond reports, processes and numbers. It is about staying close to the ground, asking the right questions, recognising what needs attention and having the confidence to act.

Earlier this week, our Managers and Senior Managers spent a day in conversation with Tom Thomas, CEO of Praxis – Institute for Participatory Practices, who brings more than three decades of experience in the development sector, including senior leadership roles with ActionAid and extensive work in participatory practice, research and organisational capacity building.

The workshop was an opportunity for our team to reflect on what it means to manage programmes with greater ownership — how we work with partners, how we understand what is happening on the ground, how we recognise challenges early, and how we make better-informed decisions.

Because ultimately, programme management is not just about processes and reporting. It is about judgement, perspective and ownership of outcomes.

Some workshops leave you with a set of tools. The more useful ones leave you with better questions and a different way of looking at your work.

This was one of those.

Some crafts are not simply made. They are carried forward across generations.In Bagh, Madhya Pradesh, women artisans con...
16/09/2026

Some crafts are not simply made. They are carried forward across generations.
In Bagh, Madhya Pradesh, women artisans continue the tradition of Bagh hand block printing, a craft shaped by natural dyes, hand-carved blocks and painstaking handmade processes. While the craftsmanship remains strong, access to markets, digital tools, customers and business opportunities has often been limited.

To help bridge that gap, Nasscom Foundation, in collaboration with Firstsource and implemented by Umang Shridhar Designs, trained 150 women artisans from the Bagh community in digital, financial and entrepreneurship skills.

The programme helped women learn to use digital devices, make online transactions, use social media for business, manage finances, and better understand and access government welfare schemes.

These shifts are helping artisans bring their products closer to customers, use digital platforms with greater confidence, build stronger customer connections and strengthen their livelihoods.

For Bagh’s women artisans, digital skilling is not about replacing tradition with technology. It is about helping heritage travel further while keeping the craft's identity and value intact.

Because when women artisans gain digital confidence, their craft does not lose its roots.
It finds a wider world.

15/09/2026

A first job. A new venture. Greater confidence to decide what comes next.
The journey after skilling can look different for every young woman.

As Digital Accelerator for HER enters its fourth year, three program alumnae - Aishwarya Raut (Aishwarya Raut) Arpita Singh, and Deepika Baikar - returned to share their experiences and reflect on where their journeys have taken them since joining the program.

For Aishwarya, that journey has led towards entrepreneurship. After witnessing young women build confidence through the program, she shared that she has since started her own venture, AI Route, inspired by the ideas of strength, knowledge, and wisdom.

Arpita joined her fellow alumnae to look back at the experience and share her perspective with young women now beginning their own journeys through the program.

For Deepika, the training strengthened skills in data analytics, Python, Excel, and SQL, alongside important soft skills. She subsequently secured her first job and spoke about the confidence she developed along the way, confidence that was also visible as she stood before a room of young women and dignitaries and shared her story.

Their journeys are different, and that is precisely the point.

Meaningful skilling is not about creating one predetermined outcome. It is about helping young women build the capabilities, exposure, and self-belief to pursue opportunities that are right for them, whether that means entering the workforce, exploring entrepreneurship, or taking another step toward their aspirations.

Through Digital Accelerator for HER, Nasscom Foundation and BNP Paribas India Foundation continue to support young women with the technical skills, professional readiness, and confidence needed to participate more meaningfully in the digital economy.

A more inclusive digital economy begins when opportunity reaches those who have historically been left at its margins.We...
13/09/2026

A more inclusive digital economy begins when opportunity reaches those who have historically been left at its margins.

We are proud to launch the latest batch of Digital Accelerator for HER, a programme that is helping young women build the digital skills, workplace readiness and confidence they need to step into the world of work.

Over the past three years, 1,400 women have been trained, with around 850 moving into employment. In its fourth year, the programme is scaling further to reach 1,300 women across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

But the impact of skilling cannot be measured only by numbers.

It is also about helping a young woman see a career she had never imagined for herself. Giving her access to mentors and workplace exposure. Equipping her not just with skills, but with the confidence to use them.

This is the power of partnerships.

Our continued collaboration with BNP Paribas India Foundation demonstrates what can happen when skilling, mentorship, industry exposure and opportunity come together with a shared commitment to enabling women to participate meaningfully in the digital economy.

At Nasscom Foundation, we believe that technology can create opportunity. Our collective responsibility is to ensure that opportunity is accessible, inclusive and within reach of every woman with the potential to shape the future.

Here’s to the young women beginning this journey—and to creating pathways where skills become careers, confidence becomes agency, and opportunity becomes lasting change.

For Naina Aggarwal, her first formal interview became the moment when months of learning and preparation turned into a r...
12/09/2026

For Naina Aggarwal, her first formal interview became the moment when months of learning and preparation turned into a real professional opportunity.

A Computer Science Engineering student at Meerabai Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University, Maharani Bagh Campus, New Delhi, Naina joined Nasscom Foundation’s Training and Placement Program, supported by .

Through the programme, she explored Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, digital marketing, Search Engine Optimization, e-commerce and WordPress, while also strengthening her communication, resume preparation, interview readiness and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence tools.

The learning soon moved beyond training. Naina secured an internship as a Pay-Per-Click Intern with Adsify Digital in Dwarka, South Delhi, giving her practical workplace exposure and a clearer understanding of professional expectations.

For young learners, a first opportunity can be an important bridge between education and employment. Naina’s journey reflects how the right skills, structured preparation and access to real-world opportunities can help turn learning into a meaningful career beginning.

11/09/2026

What does success look like when a programme is designed to create opportunity?

For Manisha Khosla Sinha, MD and Head of Brand and Communications and Philanthrophy, India, BNP Paribas, one answer stands out: when the women who go through the programme become role models for others.

Over the last three years of the Digital Accelerator for HER programme, a partnership between BNP Paribas India Foundation and Nasscom Foundation, young women have moved from uncertainty to greater self-confidence and self-belief — and, importantly, have encouraged more learners to take that first step.

In Year 4, the programme is reaching a record 1,300 women across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

But the ambition is much bigger.

As Manisha puts it, the next three years should see the programme grow into a larger, more pan-India initiative — creating many more opportunities for women to build careers in the digital economy.

Because sometimes the most powerful outcome of creating one opportunity is seeing that opportunity inspire another.

A new cohort, new possibilities for young women building new pathways to the digital economy.The latest cohort of Digita...
11/09/2026

A new cohort, new possibilities for young women building new pathways to the digital economy.

The latest cohort of Digital Accelerator for HER, a partnership between Nasscom Foundation and BNP Paribas India Foundation, brings together young women for a learning journey designed to strengthen technical skills, workplace readiness and pathways to employment.

This year, the programme is set to reach 1,300 women across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, its largest single-year reach so far.

Because preparing for a career takes more than technical skills. It also means building confidence, communicating effectively, preparing for interviews, understanding workplace expectations and making informed career choices.

Through mentoring, career conversations, and workplace exposure, participants gain practical insights into the world of work and a clearer understanding of what it takes to build a professional career.

As the new cohort begins its journey, the focus remains clear: equipping more young women with the skills, exposure and support to take meaningful steps towards employment and greater economic independence.

What happens when digital literacy becomes a tool for independence?For Anita Sen, it means helping women from the PVTG c...
08/09/2026

What happens when digital literacy becomes a tool for independence?
For Anita Sen, it means helping women from the PVTG community navigate a digital world with greater confidence.

As a Digital Ambassador in Kishanganj Block, Baran, Rajasthan, she is enabling women access government schemes, use UPI safely as well as recognise online scams, Anita is helping women turn digital knowledge into confidence, access and independence.

But the real impact is not in knowing how to use an app or complete an online application. It is in what knowledge makes possible.

In a rapidly digitising India, literacy must extend beyond the ability to read and write. It must also equip people with the skills, confidence and awareness to participate safely and meaningfully in the digital world.

This World Literacy Day, we celebrate changemakers like Anita who are taking digital knowledge into communities, and turning learning into empowerment, and access into opportunity.

Because when digital literacy reaches the last mile, possibility does too.

Some of the most meaningful lessons come from moments of connection.Teachers’ Day at the -supported NSEZ Centre of Exce...
06/09/2026

Some of the most meaningful lessons come from moments of connection.
Teachers’ Day at the -supported NSEZ Centre of Excellence in Skilling, implemented by Nasscom Foundation, brought students and trainers together beyond the classroom.

Games, interactive quizzes, student performances, and the special "Teach the Teacher" activity created space for everyone to connect, laugh, share experiences and appreciate the people who make learning possible.

Trainer appreciation, the distribution of certificates and gifts, cake cutting, refreshments and group photographs brought the celebration to a memorable close.

Swipe through the post to revisit moments filled with gratitude, connection and shared learning.

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