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Hi Niranjan I like to share some of my ideas and thoughts on Telecentres with you since we (UCSC) have been doing some work on sustainability of Telecentres for a very long time. University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) then Institute of C...
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At 8:58am on November 4, 2008, Sameera Wijerathna said…
Hi Harsha
At 11:01pm on November 3, 2008, S Gavashkar said…
Reshan to finalize and once done it will go out. He aware that its getting delayed. dont worry. Pls let me have FIT content soon for review. thanks
At 1:26am on November 3, 2008, Vignesh Sornamohan said…
Hi Harsha,

Welcome to telecentre.org!

Please take a few moments to read through our Getting Started guide for some important information. You can find the community guide here: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_started

Feel free to contact me for guidance.

Cheers
Vignesh
At 6:48am on November 2, 2008, S Gavashkar said…
Wel come harsha....
At 5:42pm on October 31, 2008, Christine Prefontaine said…
Hey Harsha! Great to see you here. I posted some lovely photos of you and some of your students. Feel free to add more info about them. See here and here. There are better-quality versions on my Flickr account.

Hope you like this site and have fun participating :)

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Academic/research
Organization
University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC)
Job Title
Head/Consultant Software Development Unit of UCSC
About Me (biography and organization description)
Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhana is a Biochemist turned Information and Communication Technology consultant with more than ten years experience in hardcore ICT. He has worked as a consultant at University of Colombo School of Computing for the last nine years.
He is also a director of .lk (ccTLD) in Sri Lanka. As a consultant to UCSC, Mr. Wijayawardhana is involved in major Government ICT projects. He designed and implemented major government networks such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Information Department of Sri Lanka as well as PRIU (Policy Research Information Unit of Presidential Secretariat).
He designed and implemented network of Kothmale Internet Project in the latter part of 1999. He is involved in UNICODE Sinhala technology Research in Sri Lanka and serves on major language committees of ICTA (apex ICT body in Sri Lanka) which is involved in implementing UNICODE standard in Sri Lanka. He was a member of committee which was involved in Standardization of SINHALA SLSI 1134.
He is a member of several steering committees such PAN LOCALIZATION project and IDRC funded Virtual Village Project, www.v-village.lk . He is the Deputy Coordinator of the Sri Lankan component of the PAN LOCALIZATION project which is involved in Localization of eight countries in Asia: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afganistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos. Latest comer to this project is the India.
He was responsible of building Software Development Unit of University of Colombo School of Computing from ground up. At present, SDU has more than eight full time programmers and Student trainees, which is at present involved in major government computerization projects and Research and Development.
He is also involved in FOSS in Sri Lanka and represented UCSC and Sri Lanka in many Open Source conferences such as AOSS.
He has actively involved in Bioinformatics at University of Colombo. He designed and implemented fiber network of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and is one of the founding members of Bioinformatics Research group.
He designed and implemented secure Election Commissioner’s network for dissemination of Election results for all the elections which were held since 1999. He designed and his team at SDU implemented the main software which was used for General Election 2001, 2004 and Presidential Election 2005.
He had been involved in several Telecenter projects of Sri Lanka and has more than Nine years experience in providing technology to Rural telecenters in Sri Lanka. UCSC is the technology provider for SARVODAYA, which is one of the main NGOS in Sri Lanka.
He programs in Python,PHP, C/C++ , .net languages such as VB.net and C#. He had extensively used DBMS such as Postgres,MySQL MSSQL, ORACLE and INFORMIX. He works with CISCO routers and had built network with Fiber, Wi-Fi, CDMA and is at present tries rural ad-hoc networks with Bluetooth
Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:
Software Engineering, Networking,Unicode and Localization, Rural Computing and Security
Website
http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/sdu
Email (please note that this website is public, including your profile information)
Wijayawardhana@gmail.com
Chat ID (MSN, Skype, AIM, etc.)
harshawije1
Phone
94114953069 Home: 94112806356
Street Address
192/3 9th Lane, Nawala Rd, Rajagiriya
City (or closest town or municipality)
Rajagiriya
Country
Sri Lanka
Region
Asia
Languages (in order of preference):
English, Sinhala
 
 

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