an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message drishtee type private company industry development founded 2000 headquarters noida uttar pradesh india area served india key people satyan mishra founder slogan sustainable communities website http www.drishtee.com drishtee is an india based business that provides information technology goods and services 1 to rural india through village kiosks that are run and managed by local entrepreneurs . these kiosks are developed using a franchise and partnership model . 2 some of the services provided by drishtee include computer education english courses rural bpo government services health insurance e commerce microfinance etc. through its low cost direct delivery network of over 2 400 kiosks drishtee has impacted the lives of over 1.5 million people in rural india . citation needed one of drishtee s primary objectives is to empower rural communities by supporting local entrepreneurship and thus helping to stem the distress migration of people from rural to urban parts of the country . the organisation was founded in 2000 and is currently led by its co founder and managing director mr. satyan mishra . 3 in its effort to bring critical services to rural india which is home for more than 60 % of the country s population drishtee has partnered with the following organisations acumen fund 4 amaron batteries icici prudential international finance corporation ifc 5 microsoft 6 national skill development corporation scojo state bank of india drishtee works in collaboration with several of its sister organisations that provide specialised services to rural india . some of these organisations are drishtee skill development center quiver infoservices 7 cyber infodev drishtee foundation drishtee has been felicitated with the following accolades in recent times ashoka foundation fellowship award 2004 awarded to founder mr. satyan mishra 8 red herring 100 asia award 2006 9 deloitte fast 50 asia 2006 winner 10 tech pioneer 2007 award given by world economic forum 11 12 invitation to the clinton global initiative 2007 13 see also edit information and communication technologies for development references edit i4donline.net september 2004 issue drishtee a successful franchising business model for cmc archived 11 january 2006 at the wayback machine . designing change robinson simon 9 november 2007 . linking to rural india . time . drishtee . acumen fund . ifc gbi drishtee archived 5 july 2008 at the wayback machine . pdf https web.archive.org web 20090320094352 http download.microsoft.com download 6 9 f 69f8c76b 198e 4114 9c12 f0b13e4d7e4e wp scalingnewheights.pdf . archived from the original pdf on 20 march 2009 . retrieved 17 december 2007 . missing or empty title help a do good diary . bloomberg businessweek . satyan mishra . ashoka.org . red herring reveals the award winners of the red herring 100 asia archived 6 february 2008 at the wayback machine . drishtee fastest growing high tech company in the country deloitte . the indian express . 29 november 2006 . business two indian cos. among technology pioneers . the hindu . 5 december 2006 . world economic forum clinton global initiative external links edit drishtee quiver cyber infodev centre for education & entrepreneurship programme ceep drishtee haat drishtee foundation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title drishtee & oldid 738701360 categories social enterprisescompanies of indiacompanies based in noidacompanies established in 2000hidden categories articles with wayback machine linkspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsuse british english from march 2013use dmy dates from march 2013articles with a promotional tone from october 2012all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 15 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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