Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) with great pleasure announced that ICTA will proudly present the 2nd National Nenasala Convention on 08th January 2010 at 08.00 hours in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is also noted that, ICTA will have the honors of welcoming His Excel…
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The regional workshop for knowledge hubs and networks –Next step was held at the United Nations Conference centre in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 11th December 2009. The meeting was organized by the Information and Communication technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD) of the United Nation econ…
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On 2nd to 4th of December 2009, Information Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) in joined hands with Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) hosted eAsia 2009: Asia’s premier ICT event. eAsia 2009 is the annual international Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for…
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Sri Lanka turned a new chapter in the field of Information Technology last Wednesday by conducting Asia’s premier ICT event, `e-Asia 2009’ at the BMICH.
The three-day exhibition was declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Science and Technology Minister Prof. Tissa Vitharana and Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Chairman Prof. P.W. Epasinghe were also present. ICTA was an organiser of the event.
Over 200 IT experts from the Asian Region attended the eve…
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e-Asia 2009, the fourth in the series of the premier ICT event in Asia is the best e-Asia so far. This was the consensus of opinion expressed by all the delegates who offered their feedback at the last plenary session held at room B of BMICH Colombo last Friday evening.
"I have attended all the e-India and all the e-Asia conferences and exhibitions. I say that from all aspects including hospitality from the security personnel at the entrance to the head table e-Asia 2009 is by far the best", In…
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on December 6, 2009 at 11:38pm —
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There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that this week for Sri Lanka’s ICT industry was all about e-Asia 2009, the international conference and exhibition hosted by the country’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) from December 2 to 4 at Colombo’s BMICH. If there was any doubt about its importance in the sphere of local ICT, one would only need to spend a few minutes…
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Question 2:
How the telecentre.org Foundation can be made more influential both thematically and regionally on behalf of telecentre movement?
In successful completion of telecentre.org Online Consultation, it was evident that question No. 02 carried out the highest number of feedbacks and responses from the members. Telecentre members who represent telecentre networks in Asia…
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Nov 27, 2009 (LBO) , A trial Sri Lankan commodity trade matching portal using mobile phones to improve marketing of farmer produce will need private sector investment to be sustainable, an official said.
Chitranganie Mubarak, a Senior Programme Head of the Information Communications Technology Agency (ICTA), said the project is part of efforts to use mobile phone and…
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on November 27, 2009 at 3:35am —
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Much of the behind-the-scene work with regard to improvement in various services in the public and private sectors brought about through the use of ICT has been carried out by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). The country owes to the ICTA a bouquet of praise for this. This was stated by Minister of Science and T…
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Sri Lanka’s e-society program that connects the unconnected rural and disadvantaged communities to the world of information and communication through new technologies drew plaudits at the recent Innovation Fair held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The Innovation Fair was organized to draw attention of the top management of the World Bank to creative and fresh approaches in global development programs. The e-Society program was one of the six most distinctive projects from the South…
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eASiA2009, Asia's premier ICT event: conference and exhibition which is to be held in Sri Lanka at BMICH, Colombo from 02nd to 4th Dec 2009 is now ready to accept your registrations.
If you are interested in join with us, Please access following URL to register yourself.
http://www.e-asia.org/2009/registration.asp
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 28, 2009 at 12:30am —
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IT revolution in Nivithigala, Sri Lanka
Launched in the national Year of English and Information Technology, Microsoft Sri Lanka in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has launched groundbreaking “Gamata IT” initiative, a series of activities aimed at taking Information Technology to the most remote rural communities of Sri Lanka, is another step in the Company’s long term journey to making IT accessible to all Sri Lankans. Consid…
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 27, 2009 at 12:30am —
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e-Asia 2009 is looked forward to with tremendous interest both locally and internationally. So said Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chief Operating Officer Reshan Dewapura during his address to the ICTA Private Sector Forum meeting held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo recently.
ICTA COO expressed joyful wonderment at the surge of interest in the premier Asian ICT event. “Interest in eAsia 2009, which is exactly at a 50-day countdown today, has been gathering…
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The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has launched the first National ICT Industry Survey. Called the National ICT Industry Survey 2009, the survey is executed under the guidance of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) unit of ICTA and will be implemented by GreenTech Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd.
ICTA has taken steps to conduct this first National ICT Industry Survey parallel to the ICT workforce survey 2009 which was also launched recently. ICTA Monitoring and…
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Nenasalas (National Telecentre Network) is considered to be a brainchild of President Mahinda Rajapaksa under the 'e-Sri Lanka Development initiative, operated by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) under its Information Infrastructure Programme, were largely responsible for Sri Lanka reaching a high level in ICT literacy. Therefore, ICTA of Sri Lanka is dedicated to take dividends of the Information and Communication Technology among its all communities. Thro…
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The Re-engineering Government Programme (Re-Gov) of the Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) has initiated a number of eServices and enabling projects to increase the efficiency of the citizen service delivery mechanism of the government. Having recognized the difficulty in obtaining the c…
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 20, 2009 at 3:00am —
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Sustainability of the telecentres is a great priority in the today’s telecentre movement as it plays a major role in disseminating the ICT knowledge to the rural community. Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), the dedicated government institution in Sri Lanka to promote ICT in rural villages, make tremendous efforts to improve the quality of the Nenasala (National telecentre) movement and to assure the continuous up and running of the centres that have been established around the…
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The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has taken several steps to strengthen the national dairy industry with the help of Information and Communication Technology.
As one such step the project ‘e-dairy’ aimed at making the benefits of ICT accrue to the dairy farmer was introduced under the patronage of Dairy Resource Development Minister C. B. Ratnayake at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute recently.
Addressing the function ICTA Chief Operating Officer Reshan D…
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The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has taken steps to create a database on State-owned lands in the Western Province.
Under this endeavor all information on State-owned lands in the Colombo, Kalutara and Gampaha districts will be entered on to a database.
From left ICT…
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on October 2, 2009 at 12:00am —
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telecentre.org would like to announce that their first edition of photo contest is officially closed on 30th September 2009. We would like to thank all the members of the site for their participation in this contest. Telecentre.org English site Community facilitators will evaluate each photo entries and short listed entries will be forwarded to a panel of judges. Winners will be announced via the telecentre.org website on the end of October 2009. Five winning photos will be selected by a…
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