Nasscom joins hand with Google for DigiVaani Call Center to help rural women entrepreneurs scale up business

Nasscom joins hand with Google for DigiVaani Call Center to help rural women entrepreneurs scale up business

• Nasscom Foundation and Google have announced setting up a call centre in collaboration with a not-for-profit body Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) to help women farmers scale up their business.
• The “DigiVaani Call Center” project is being run on a pilot basis and initially around 20,000 rural women entrepreneurs shall be covered across six states, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan.
• DigiVaani will be one place where rural women entrepreneurs will be able to call and get the information around various schemes available for them, which can help them scale up their business, be it government scheme or any other information that can be of help for them.
• A DigiVaani call centre has been set up at the Delhi and Lucknow offices of ISAP.
• The project is funded by Google, through its philathropic arm Google.org.