All Blog Posts Tagged 'sustainability' (28)

ICTA Hot Off The Press

Dear Friends, I would like to share the ICTA news round up during the month of August. Hot Off The Press - August.pdf Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on September 15, 2009 at 4:08am — No Comments

ICTA launched National Best e-Content Award in Sri Lanka

An opportunity for today’s top e-content creators of Sri Lanka

Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka is pleased to announce the launch of the Country’s very first National Best e-Content Award. National Best e-Content Award (NBe-CA) is a Local initiative for selecting and givin… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on September 2, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Base of the pyramid 2.0: Bringing sustainable growth to scale at the BOP through Enterprise ICTs

The economy-driving role of information and communications technology (ICT) firms - large and small, national and global - is growing larger in these early decades of the 21st century, and the potential for impacts is expanding right along with it. This paper looks in particular at the role ICTs have played in serving low-income (base of the pyramid, or BOP) communiti… Continue

Added by Pawel Makowiecki on August 27, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

ICTA Grants Powered Gnu Cash 2.2.9 in Sinhala & Tamil…

Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) , through the e-Society Development Initiative (eSDI) grants, have assisted many organizations to develop and pilot various content, software and services successfully in areas such as education, disabilities, web sites and other eCommerce initiatives. ICTA is further concerned to take these initiatives beyond the communities in which they were originally piloted, hoping it will provide an opportunity to all softwares and contents developed are… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on August 24, 2009 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

Empowering the Lives of Migrant Workers through ICT

1.6 million of Sri Lankan migrant workers serve in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. There are more than 300,000 are in Kuwait, over 75,000 are in Jordan, and 45,000 are in Bahrain as house-maids. A recent Central Bank report reveals that migrant workers have earned over US$ 2.91 billion during the year 2008. Therefore, Sri Lankan migrant worker population, which draws in 27.5% of the country’s much needed foreign exchange inflow, is known as the highest foreign earning sector in the country. Of… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 31, 2009 at 7:47am — No Comments

A New Era in IT for Rural Communities

Stepping up in a big way to empower rural Sri Lanka with ICT skills, especially during this Year of English and IT, ICTA and Microsoft have jointly developed a new local language interface software. This local language interface software provides accessibility to the user to learn computers in thier local language. The focus of this project is to take ICT to the islands' most remote rural communities and facilitate them with the optimal benefits of ICT. The main objectives of developing this lo… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 30, 2009 at 2:28am — No Comments

e-Sri Lanka: what is in it for Agriculture?

ICTA is the implementing organization for the e-Sri Lanka Development Programme a national development initiative, with the objective of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to foster social integration, peace, and economic growth. To fulfill its mandate, ICTA has presently implemented several programs. The e-Society Development Initiative (e-SDI) is one of the significant projects launched by the ICTA for facilitates and assists the agricultural sector of the country. Goals… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 27, 2009 at 4:42am — No Comments

Bill Gates says "Sri Lanka poised for greater growth"

President commends ICTA, Microsoft for removing language barriers in computer applications with the launch of Sinhala interface pack Microsoft founder Bill Gates has expressed his optimism that Sri Lanka “is poised for greater economic growth and development” and expressed the global giant’s support since much of future prosperity would be fueled by the use of software and the power of IT. Positive sentiments by Gates, one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, were conveyed to none other… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 20, 2009 at 11:34pm — No Comments

Inauguration of Nenasala Community Development Task Force-Kurunegala District

Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) successfully launched the Nenasala Community Development Task Force for the Kurunegala district on 10th July 2009. This is the 3rd Nenasala community Development Task Force established under district level and the first and the second district level Task Force was established in Gampaha and Kandy districts. Inauguration of Nenasala Community Development Task Force was organized by the Nenasala ambassadors and they were assisted… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 13, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Manual for Community Radio Managers

"Community Radio stations" seems to be emerging as a sub culture in our telecentre network. Lot of countries have encouraged and promoted 'Community Radio Stations'. In searching the web, I found a manual developed for the community radio managers, published by UNESCO office in New Delhi. I thought sharing this piece of information would be useful to all of you, specially those who are interested in launching a community radio station.

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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 3, 2009 at 2:08am — 4 Comments

Nenasala Regional Impact Team

ICT development in the rural areas of the country has become a great priority of the Sri Lankan government. Government is keenly interested in enhancing the ICT is obvious as the government has declared this year as the “Year of English & Information Technology”. Further, improving the IT literacy among the community, government expects to establish 1000 Nenasalas in all parts of the country by the year of 2010. In guaranteeing the success of Nenasala network and assessing the sustainabilit… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on June 25, 2009 at 5:53am — 2 Comments

Telecentre Sustainability - Problems and Solutions

Telecentre is a powerful tool for the rural people communicate to the rest of the world. Government of India, has planned to roll out 100,000+ Common Services Centers (CSCs) across the country through which, around 6,00,000 villages will be benefited. Government of India has vision of rolling out all the CSCs by the end of 2009.

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Added by Anusha Raman on May 30, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2009

The World Telecommunication and Information Society day is being observed on May 17 which is indeed a landmark in the global community’s efforts to address the issues, related to Information and Communication Technologies worldwide. World Telecommunication Day has been celebrated annually on 17 May since 1969, marking the founding of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865. In November 2005, the World Summit on the Info… Continue

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on May 21, 2009 at 6:55am — No Comments

Impact Monitoring & Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Telecenter Networks

A paper presented at the "Evaluation for Development Results" International conference (Trans Asia, April 22-23 by Niranjan Meegammana and Rasika Sampath, Sri Lanka Telecenter Community

Impact Monitoring & Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks Niranjan Meegammana and Rasika Sampath Sri Lanka Telecenter Community ABSTRACT E3 Telecenter Network M & E process assisted improving sustainability of Nenasala Telecente… Continue

Added by Niranjan Meegammana on May 2, 2009 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

How to reduce telecentre costs and management challenges

I suspect some of you have already read about NComputing. The company has a ground breaking solution to computer challenges telecentres face. Its simple to deploy, compatible with standard software, highly efficient - consuming 95% less electricity than a typical PC and significantly easier to manage and cheap (starting at around $70 per seat). Ncomputing solution is based on the fact that today's PCs are so powerful that the vast majority of applications only use a small fraction of the comput… Continue

Added by Meddie Mayanja on February 20, 2009 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

Sustainability of Telecentres

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Note: My intention is not to promote any product, brand or company, but to promote sustainability of Telecentres. "- A Telecentre with a name board of a Private Telecommunication Company in Sri Lanka. This particular Telecentre had got a Wi… Continue

Added by Sameera Wijerathna on January 12, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

telecentre.org in the Dominican Republic

telecentre.org is getting some great press in the Dominican Republic, where we've supported a workshop on the sustainability of community access to ICT initiatives (Taller sobre la sostenibilidad de las iniciativas de acceso colectivo a las TIC en la República Dominicana), organised as part of the Act!ivate project. Yacine Khelladi, president of the Fundaci… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on December 1, 2008 at 9:51pm — No Comments

Telecentre Networks at Resource Mobilisation workshop

Four African network leaders from Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Mozambique are attending the 15th Eastern Africa Resource Mobilisation workshop in Mombasa on Nov 24 – 28, 2008. The workshop will help participants to learn a wide variety of concepts, techniques and ideas to strengthen their resource mobilization capacities. They will also network with more than 50 other participants. I am joined here by my colleague Vivianne Ngugi (IDRC – Regional Nairobi). This event will discuss topics such a… Continue

Added by Meddie Mayanja on November 27, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Building sustainability

In a world that keeps changing by the minute, where ICTs are in the core of the changes, telecentres need to stay updated and be able to adapt and incorporate new products and services. With this in mind, telecentre.org will share its knowledge about innovative social enterprise models with professionals involved in corporate social and environmental responsibility from South America and the Caribbean. telecentre.org will participate at the sixth Inter-American… Continue

Added by telecentre.org on November 25, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Guidance Materials on Women's ICT Enterprises

Prof. Richard Heeks posted this in different lists. Thought it would be interesting for our readers too. Centre for Development Informatics from the University of Manchester, UK has compiled online handbooks and audio-visual materials on women's ICT-based enterprises. I have uploaded the resource at our library in Development Gateway portal. Please read the entry… Continue

Added by Partha Sarker on November 3, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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