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 ...
සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ පණත සංවාදය අද හවස 5.30 සිට LIVE on fb !අනිවාර්යෙන් එන්න. Cyber Security Bill ForumLive on Facebook from 5.30 PM today. https://m.facebook.com/events/439673553492817and onhttps://m.facebook.com/joininternetfreedom/#cyberBull #srilanka Niranjan Meegammana Blog
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 ...
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 ...
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.
I witnessed this year Murali Krishna winning e-INDIA 2010 Award for best Telecentre initiative for the project AraviKalanjam e-SDI project he implemented. He was the youngest and probably represented smallest entity among award recipients. The goodness of the project is that it involved more than 500 students in a digital local language content comp
ICT4D has created a platform for people to be embraced in knowledge. When e Sri Lanka project initiated , it helped creating a community of people who contributed to local language technology development. Due to the differences of local scripts, technologies designed for roman script like languages (En
Thripitakahttp://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/TipitakaIn phylshopcal texts (Nagarjuna, Tripitaka)http://books.google.ca/books?id=yCH7ueXrJowC&printsec=frontcover&dq=openness+tipitaka&source=bl&ots=_jDBD13SFV&sig=R36Rtn1KOkXxqEh4VoxQVVMkFBo&hl=en&ei=QJsaTMruA4mrcdPZrYcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBw"Nagrjuna's more radical purification move renders purity and impurityalong with desires, actions, bodies, producers and products as likedreams i
There are over 600 Telecenters setup in Sri Lanka. In the world although no exact data available, at least 35000 Telecenters are expected to operate. The telecentre.org has over 1000 members world wide. International funding agencies like IDRC, World Bank , UNDP etc. and local NGOs, Government Agencies and private ...
Use of ICTs in Sri Lanka DemocracyIt's Very interesting to see impact of ICT in Sri Lanka Democracy. Compared to 2000 and 2005 presidential Election, we see enlarged usage of alternative media like social networks, powered by ICTs and web 2.0. From the very start of the presidential race the major Two candidates President Mahinda Rajapaksa and General (Rtd) Sarath ...
Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodologyfor Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter NetworksNiranjan MeegammanaTeam Leader, Sri Lanka Telecenter Community, 27th NITC ‘09 Conference ABSTRACTSustainability Index (SI) is a new methodology used in M & E to assess sustainability position in 60 Nenasala Telecenter Network in Uva province, Sri Lanka. Sustainability Index defined as Telecenter, Zonal and Regional Network ranking system derived by ...
Project E3 winning e-India award has a significant value to all Nenasala operators as it's the highest level of honor received by a Nenasala operator, who is in the bottom of the pyramid of Telecenter movement. As we have witnessed and experienced, Telecenter based ICT4D projects has to stand on ground, long before winning an award, it has to reach ...
