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Osama Manzar

Executive Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

Expertise in: Digital literacy, fact-checking, social development, and digital inclusion.

Osama Manzar is a senior Ashoka fellow who founded Digital Empowerment Foundation 20 years back in 2002 to ensure digital access and empowerment to the most marginalised people. He is a British Chevening scholar and has been instrumental in several policies like National Digital Literacy Mission. He has traveled to over 10,000 villages and sits on several national and international boards.