I think it can. When we started Adobe Youth Voices Program in Sri Lanka we did not know the power for youth media for social change. We implemented AYV program in Kandy and Lahugala. Kandy was a mobile Telecentre. Lahugala was a Nenasala Telecentre. Kandy youth and Lahugala youth had different issues and talents.They shared shilpasayura lahugala accessing local hosted ...
Sense of place characterizes authentic human attachment and belonging to a place. This media piece was done for Adobe Youth Voices Training as an AYV educator. Location Colombo Sri Lanka. June 16 2012.නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්
Stress is a part of everyday life. Stress has many sources of stress. Romantic breakdowns, friends changing, loosing a job, parent’s pressure, failing an exam and extraordinary events like deaths, serious illnesses and natural disasters etc can occur without a warning. People easily become frustrated by the pressures created that transform into stress that make you wear out. Here are ...
The new teaching model of the world incorporates problem based learning, project-based learning and challenge based learning focusing on real problems faced in the real world . It engages students’ curiosity and desire to learn to solve of real problems at the center of the curriculum, and giving students access to 21st century tools, help them to work collaboratively on ...
The mixed experiences of last 5 Years of engagement of rural education development through Nenasala telecentres has thought me that success of ICT4D depends on dedicated and committed people more than resources or market opportunities. The development of education brings impact directly in the lives of people as evident from Lahugala Nenasala Telecentre located in South east part of Sri Lanka ...
The society we live today was unimaginable 10 Years before. It’s not just examples of facebook, YouTube or mobile phones in every hand. Its the ICT innovations that changed the world. In 1970s we had little Tuition for weak students. It started to grow in 1980s, grew big in 90s and today Tuition has become a defacto where bright students ...
I created this media peice during Adobe Youth Voices Training conducted by Thinking IT Global 2011. This experimenta; video involved writing a poem, creating a story board, photography, photo editing snf video editing using a nikon camera, photo shop elements 9 and premiere elements 9.නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්
Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people in a positive manner, thus include parents, teachers and professionals who would provide support, secure and safe environments for them ...
Local language e learning at rural TelecentresAn imperative of ICT for increasing access to educationNiranjan Meegammana, Shilpa Sayura FoundationKeeragolle Dhammasara, Talakumabura NenasalaChaminda Samarawikrama, Siyambalanduwa NenasalaSaman Sisira Kumara, Madagama TelecentreAbstractIn the face of emerging global challenges, from climatic change, heath, economic crisis and cultural issues, education remains the foundation for innovation for the advancement of human kind. Information and Communication Techn
Simple use of ICT , Social Media , Telecentres can help creating support networks that helps the disaster relief process. . ICT brought a great capability in responding with infomation in Sri Lanka Floods 2011. When a disasters happen, people need information from top to bottom. The infomation needs comes from the policy, operational and ground relief actions.
News sources report that the floods and earth slips have displaced over 830,000 people in the Eastern, North central and Central provinces of Sri Lanka and destroyed over 132,000 acres of agriculture land. Government requested public support to assist over 800,000 flood victims needing drinking water, clothing, mats and milk food for the children.During tsunami we saw how people helped ...
Wish You all a Happy New Year!Facebook has become most visited website in 2010 as well as most searched keyword of the year. The "facebook" search term has accounted for 3.48% of all searches, according to Hitwise. And it's a 207% increase of facebook search position from 2009. In US facebook with 8.93% user visits from US alone has beaten ...
ශිල්ප සයුරට වසර 4 යි.2006 නොවැම්බර් 15 වැනිදා අප කොළඹින් පිටත් උනේ ගමට අළුත් දෙයක් අරගන. අපි එනකන් සබරගමුවේ, මාතර, මොණරාගල සහ හම්බන්තොට නැණසළ 20ක් බලාගන හිටියා. ශිල්ප සයුර නැණසළවලට ගෙනියනකොට සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ගම්වල තිබුනේ නෑ. තිස්සමහාරාම ළමයි කළේ නාසා පිංතූර බලන එක. නැණසළ වල වයිරස් පිරිලා. නෙට්වර්ක් වැඩ කළේ නෑ. අපි ශිල්ප සයුර විතරක් නොවේ නැණසළට අලුත් තාක්ෂණයත්, නව ...
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The vast chunks of wastelands and draught pro lands creates an economic alternative as biofuels production pockets in the country for biofuel development programs. UN Food and Agriculture Organisation recently published a major report on jatropha, lauding the crop’s “Potential for Pro-Poor Development” in many regions of the world with certain conditions, similar to those in Andhra Pradesh.More http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/not-all-biofuels-are-bad-a-rural-india-case/නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ...
Ecosystems are indispensible for the survival of humans. if the biological diversity in our world is disappearing at this pace, we will soon eliminate the basis of our future existence and also the future economy. Hence it's essaintial that all stakeholders join hands and pool resources and efforts to protect global environment. Economy and ecology are interdependent in ...
Having involved in Shlpa Sayura rural community education and Nava Goviya agriculture development through Telecentres, the purpose of taking part in SIX in the City, Summer School Workshop in Singapore, was to expand our horizon integrating climatic change into our work, so that we can enlarge the impact of our social innovation at grass roots.
