With one week to go on the online voting season of Adobe Aspire UNCEF Challange, Sri Lanka Youth have come up as favorite to win the Global Award, which will give them over 20000 USD. The Project team leader Poornima still want more votes saying "Competitor in in USA, Canada & Europe are well connected on Facebook and they use ...
Four innovative Youth Solutions were chosen for grants between US$15,000 and $20,000 to carry out a youth-led project by World Bank, Microsoft Sri Lanka. ‘Youth Solutions! Technology for Skills and Employment’ competition was held at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo on 21 Tuesday. 8 Youth-led NGOs from Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka participated in the competition where each NGO was ...
First Time in Sri Lanka, 3 Sri Lankan youth media creations, have reached Adobe-UNICEF Award Finals. Sri Lanka is leading in Photo essay, Social Poster & Video Project categories. Our youth need every Facebook Like, Share, Tweet and Retweet to get as much as votes for their creations to win.You have the power to make Sri Lanka Win! Grant 3 ...
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The Spark13 conference, also known as the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres, is set to take center stage in Granada, Spain this coming May 28-29 at the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos.Organized by Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF), Telecentre-Europe (TE), Comunidad de Redes de Telecentros, Red Guadalinfo and the National Information Society Agency of Korea (NIA), the conference is expected to bring ...
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 ...
In the face of emerging global challenges including climatic change, heath, economic crisis and cultural issues, education remains the foundation for innovation and the advancement of human kind. Hence it is important for us to respond to these crucial problems to provide access to education by all. [ Lahugala Village Youth in a class room listening to a teacher]Theoretically this ...
Telecentre.org Foundation and Spark (the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres) organizers, in cooperation with the regional telecentre networks, conducting the of the first ever Global Telecentre Awards (GTA). Shilpa Sayura and Suriyawewa Nenasala of Sri lanka are among 18 semi finalists of the first Global Telecentre Awards 2013 of telecentre.org. Shilpa Sayura in the finals of The Best Telecentre innovation ...
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 ...
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