<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622</id><updated>2011-11-28T06:30:34.935+05:30</updated><category term='Software'/><category term='PHP'/><category term='Unicode'/><category term='Sinhala'/><category term='comparison'/><category term='Grammer'/><category term='Open Source'/><category term='CMS'/><category term='Blogging'/><title type='text'>නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්</title><subtitle type='html'>අයෙක් ඇසූවිට කුමක්ද බ්ලොග් එකක් කියා, පෙන්වන්නටයි මේ සිත් සටහන හැදුනේ.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>97</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-9175800791370820816</id><published>2011-08-29T06:05:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2011-08-29T06:12:43.646+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Telecentres for Innovating Youth Education for 21st Century</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;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&amp;nbsp;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 which helped changing the shape of education in their village through Shilpa Sayura. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IhgaMDZatoE/Tlrd0Mf2S8I/AAAAAAAAA8w/SavwdlnO7YQ/s1600/shilpa_sayura.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281px" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IhgaMDZatoE/Tlrd0Mf2S8I/AAAAAAAAA8w/SavwdlnO7YQ/s400/shilpa_sayura.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LdlU6suTx8I/Tlre4zGmz2I/AAAAAAAAA80/-LyHWBcAPHE/s1600/shilpa_sayura1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jnBpCXWn2KM/TlrgHLmahGI/AAAAAAAAA84/aeQO1PyKs-M/s1600/shilpa_sayura1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jnBpCXWn2KM/TlrgHLmahGI/AAAAAAAAA84/aeQO1PyKs-M/s1600/shilpa_sayura1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;They wrote to me, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This poem means that &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Shilpa Sayura is the rain came on a dry land faced with the draught"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;these words gives us an insights of value we can create through ICT in their lives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Last decade we had been using ICT as a tool in education, now we find that ICT as a foundation which can be used to build future perspectives that removes disparities to access to national education. It’s clear that every nation in the world will continue to compete in a global economy that demands innovation. In this race where ever in the world poor people are like one nation without access to education. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;In an era people are talking of radical re-generation of education, the context of delivery is as important as content. Hence we see Telecentres has a great potential to play a major role in 21st Century national education delivery by thinking beyond informal role played in development. This is demonstrated by Telecentres who changed the shape of the education in their villages using Shilpa Sayura, and become sustainable as a result even without connectivity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;People often say that future can't be predicted as it has more parameters than any scientific equation. Yet we have known that experienced human minds can process complex equations to develop novel ideas for the future. Shilpa Sayura as an ICT4D initiative explored formal education delivery through Telecentres and seems to have found a solution to develop rural education for 21st Century and also for sustaining of telecentres engaging them in mainstream national education development process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-9175800791370820816?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/9175800791370820816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=9175800791370820816' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/9175800791370820816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/9175800791370820816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/08/telecentres-for-innovating-youth.html' title='Telecentres for Innovating Youth Education for 21st Century'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IhgaMDZatoE/Tlrd0Mf2S8I/AAAAAAAAA8w/SavwdlnO7YQ/s72-c/shilpa_sayura.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-2884110214996107236</id><published>2011-07-24T13:28:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-07-24T16:11:16.694+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ICT for Innovating Youth Education for 21st Century Skills</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 takes most tuition. Societies Innovate when competition and resource limitations are faced. In World Telecentres appeared in 1990s, bubbled in 2005s now we see sustainable Telecentres growing in the in mainstream.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the ICT4D arena many ideas have been bloomed. Some managed to become mature taking path finding approaches. ICT4D journeys which acquired mixed experiences. Some excelled, some got tired and vanished. The ones which matured, got kept moving, along the vision using the lessons learned from experiences to get further. All the insights may not be fore-sights, but one idea to be successful, it may be worth testing several. Then ICT for sights are become global examples.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the experiences we understand that future can't be predicted. Future has more parameters than any scientific equation. Yet experienced human minds can process such complex equations to imagine shape of the things to come. Those who can build such scenarios will create novel ideas that would be paid back in future. They will excel when the time comes. Arthur C. Clarke imagined the shape of the new communication, he wrote it and others followed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last decade many developing countries had been focusing in using ICT as a tool to develop the society. When we look at experiences gained in a learned perspective, we will find that ICT is more than a tool, but a foundation which can be used to build futures. especially In the area of education, ICT has helped the word to progress much by connecting schools, introducing online education, setting up distance vocational training facilities, and introducing of ICT in to main stream curriculum. Where will we go from here in innovating education?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It’s clear that tomorrow’s world will test youth for 21st century readiness. Every nation will continue to compete in a global economy that demands innovation. As we are learning today's global education approaches seen as outdated and obsolete. People are talking of radical re-generation of education. Educators are more thinking what is more important in education? Whether it’s memorizing of the prime god of Mesapothemia ? or knowing why Messapothemia was demised? The latter knowledge will help a person and world in the efforts for survival? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hence educators in the world over re-thinking of changing education paradigms to make education more contributing to innovation. Educators are thinking along new perspectives like four Cs, which is an education concept gaining high recognition in developed countries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The four Cs are &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;1. Critical thinking and Problem solving&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2. Communication&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3. Collaboration&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;4. Creativity and innovation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In United States leading schools are already following this idea by aligning education curriculum to 4Cs. Looking at 4Cs we can immediately tell that 4Cs are about new media skills like internet, social networks that have become dominant in shaping world. Hence ICT is a core 21st Century skill to align 4Cs for the educational curriculum. We need to train every youth to use ICT to solve problems effectively, and to communicate locally and globally using creative media, and collaborate with others for innovation. If the concept of knowledge society to become real, we need to find new ways to deliver knowledge to people more creatively, more efficiently using new channels like social networks and mobiles. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In time to come, nations will be measured how innovative they would be and what new knowledge they process and how they communicate such knowledge and collaborate creating solutions to problems. If we are to develop our youth to take 21st century challenges and win, we need to make them more innovative. We know that, Innovation is an output of creativity which can be enabled by ICT. Hence skills of using ICT for creativity matters as much as ICT literacy for daily life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adobe Youth Voices Program designed to supports young people to use of cutting-edge multimedia tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and create a positive social impact in where they live. In this initiative 2 educators were trained from Sri Lanka. Following is one of the creations of Adobe educator from Sri Lanka. Adobe Youth Voices Program will be initiated in Sri Lanka in 5 Schools, 3 Telecentres, a disabled school and a orphanage to train 100+ Youth and expand further to train creative media educators and youth more next year.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dCk9A9k1b40?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This media peice was created during Adobe Youth Voices Training conducted by Thinking IT Global 2011. This experimental video done as a digital story involved writing a poem, creating a story board, field photography, photo editing and video editing process, used a nikon professional camera, photoshop elements 9, premiere elements 9 and audacity software. The whole production was done in electronic medium including exhibition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Adobe Youth Voices - Educator&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpaayura.org&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;amp;postID=2884110214996107236"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-2884110214996107236?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/2884110214996107236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=2884110214996107236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2884110214996107236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2884110214996107236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/07/ict-for-innovating-youth-education-for.html' title='ICT for Innovating Youth Education for 21st Century Skills'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6311473028915648778</id><published>2011-07-24T11:37:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-07-24T11:37:14.646+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Unsung Poem of Youth</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="560" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dCk9A9k1b40?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dCk9A9k1b40?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6311473028915648778?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6311473028915648778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6311473028915648778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6311473028915648778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6311473028915648778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/07/unsung-poem-of-youth.html' title='Unsung Poem of Youth'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7258032692207994276</id><published>2011-03-19T04:44:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-19T20:09:47.756+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Youth Empowerment Soceity : Open New Doors to Future</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neias.org/YEP/newyepp2x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="http://www.neias.org/YEP/newyepp2x.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;y&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;o&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 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 to flourish&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;How do we encourage young people to do their &lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BEST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;If we are able to create an environment to evolve their leadership and ensure that they can safely experiment and succeed in developing stronger skills and confidence in future? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Youth problems are not just youth problems&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;br /&gt;they are community problems&amp;nbsp; which requires us to work with parents, teachers, schools, corporates, media and community organisations to address the problems faced by our youth today. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"&gt;What Youth need to &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;FLOURISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I_mdqhuHJnE/TYPlq52U2pI/AAAAAAAAAoo/cezAgeRy4rc/s1600/Character-education-for-Youth.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I_mdqhuHJnE/TYPlq52U2pI/AAAAAAAAAoo/cezAgeRy4rc/s320/Character-education-for-Youth.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;1. Developing&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt; leadership &lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;skills&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;2. &lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Effective&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; communication&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; skills&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;3. Learn to&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; relax&lt;/span&gt; and manage stress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;4. &lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Deal with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"&gt;emotions and doubts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;5. &lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;Increase&lt;/span&gt; focus and clarity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;6. Better&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; fitness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"&gt;health and nutrition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;7. &lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;Understand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; power and responsibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;8. &lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;Develop&lt;/span&gt; self &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #674ea7;"&gt;confidence and inner strength&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;9. &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;Develop trust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and better&lt;span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"&gt; interpersonal relationships&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;10. &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Problem solving&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt; community building&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; skills&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"&gt;What creates Youth Problems?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UV5SQQvJnT4/TYPm88bBczI/AAAAAAAAAos/tlcw1As7F84/s1600/y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UV5SQQvJnT4/TYPm88bBczI/AAAAAAAAAos/tlcw1As7F84/s1600/y.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Today's &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;competitive educational environment&lt;/span&gt; and lifestyles puts youth &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;under pressures&lt;/span&gt; which were &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;not experienced by previous generations. &lt;/span&gt;Academic competition, &lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;peer pressure&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;family&lt;/span&gt; problems&lt;/span&gt; and high &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;expectations of parents&lt;/span&gt; including increased media &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;exposure&lt;/span&gt; create &lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;stress&lt;/span&gt; and anxiety&lt;/span&gt; at an age when youth are undergoing &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;physical and mental&lt;/span&gt; changes.&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: orange; color: orange;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As a result, stress and depression are widespread in today's youth, &lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;preventing&lt;/span&gt; them &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt; realising&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; their &lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;full potential&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and putting them at risk of a wide range of problems in the long run. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;Our Challange ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;To develop &lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;a new empowerment model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for youth &lt;span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;"&gt;to develops their academic, technical, personal and&amp;nbsp;social skills&lt;/span&gt; including critical thinking and problem solving skills so that they can meet&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; global standards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; required for success in &lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"&gt;post secondary education&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;quality employment&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;b style="color: orange;"&gt;KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY&lt;/b&gt; evolving today - faster than NANO. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yess.co.nz/images/graphics/foxtail16.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" r6="true" src="http://www.yess.co.nz/images/graphics/foxtail16.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;What many people &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;don't know about young people ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"&gt;1. They like to be cared&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They like to be cared and loved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need to feel safe and secure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o The more they are cared for, the more secure they feel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need to be surrounded by people who care for, appreciate and accept them unconditionally. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need the positive influences of peers and adults to encourage them to do their best. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need to be encouraged to appreciate that they are more likely to reach their potential with clear targets they can reach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"&gt;2. They like to be valued&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o The more they are valued the more positive self-worth they experience. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need to be encouraged to feel they have some control over things that happen to them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o Empowering them will be proof that they are valued, respected, liked and are regarded as valuable resources. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need fun time to interact with peers and adults, which involves the development of social skills. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o To know that life has meaning and purpose &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o Their lives have significance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o The more they understand that there is a reason for their existence, the more significant they will feel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need encouragement to explore opportunities within and outside of school to learn and develop new skills and interests. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They are encouraged to acquire a commitment to learning: education success and the long-term value of learning will enhance their self-worth as they discover their gifts and talents. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need to appreciate and understand how to make the tough decisions and choices; how to cope with new situations. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o They need guidance to develop a positive view of the future. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;What else ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"&gt;Simply ask them ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is needed?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #674ea7;"&gt;To motivate, inspire and encourage young people to reach their full potential.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How ?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us bring young people together; create a supportive and secure environment; enable peer to peer collaboration; provide encouragement and mentoring with guidance to realize their full potential in the society&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;The quality of our future will be the youth we develop today...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://www.earthskids.com/kids_can_change.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give Youth&lt;/span&gt; the Skills and Tools &lt;br /&gt;and They'll &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Change the World &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7258032692207994276?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7258032692207994276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7258032692207994276' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7258032692207994276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7258032692207994276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/03/youth-empowerment.html' title='Youth Empowerment Soceity : Open New Doors to Future'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I_mdqhuHJnE/TYPlq52U2pI/AAAAAAAAAoo/cezAgeRy4rc/s72-c/Character-education-for-Youth.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7247344891650937769</id><published>2011-02-08T03:12:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-02-08T03:12:33.255+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Shilpa Sayura is a Social Change Maker at Telecentres</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="font-size-4" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Local language e learning at rural Telecentres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="font-size-3" style="font-size: large;"&gt;An imperative of ICT for increasing access to education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana, Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;Keeragolle Dhammasara, Talakumabura Nenasala&lt;br /&gt;Chaminda Samarawikrama, Siyambalanduwa Nenasala&lt;br /&gt;Saman Sisira Kumara, Madagama Telecentre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 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 Technology (ICT) help us to find new ways to teach people and improve the quality of education to initiate social changes through life long learning. Hence it is important to know the future imperatives of ICT that can be used in developing people to face the 21st century challenges and to respond to crucial problems in access to education with scalable and replicable ICT innovations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This research is done in rural areas of Sri Lanka where early school drop-off rates after secondary education ranges from 51.6% -66.9% creating an adverse effect in rural societies increasing unemployment and unrest among youth. The research studies cases of local language e learning at Telecentres in rural Sri Lanka, implemented by Shilpa Sayura – rural e learning project. This initiative created open learning environments in rural Telecentres by catalyzing the power of ICT for enabling of self and group learning of the national curriculum to increase access to education by the marginalized rural youth whose education has been hampered with lack education resources. Shilpa Sayura by creating a new means of access to education helped improving of quality and performance in rural education. This research involves four case studies of local language e learning at rural Telecentres and a survey done among rural youth to understand how local language e learning was deployed in rural Telecentres of Sri Lanka, the approaches for development, resulting social change, innovative uses of ICT, obstacles, challenges and mitigation measures in the process to initiate a learned discussion on how “local language e learning at Telecentres” can be used as an effective development instrument for social change of rural societies in the developing world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, the research finds that Shilpa Sayura and Telecentre local language e learning model as an innovation emerged through information and communication for development for increasing access to education by marginalized rural youth which can hope to improve examination performances and reduce school drop-offs. The scaling up of this innovation can help us to bridge gaps created by disparities in access to education in rural communities to transform them as “learning societies” for engaging them with life long learning to face the challenges of the 21st century. In this context “local language e learning at Telecentres” is seen as an effective development instrument which can significantly catalyze the social change with increased access, improved quality and performance in rural societies of the developing world, hence suggest as a future imperative of information and communication for development for social change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords:&lt;/strong&gt; Shilpa Sayura, Telecentres, education, development, social change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This paper on Shilpa Sayura Impact was presented at "Future Imparatives of Informtion and Communication for Social Change" conference held at UNESCO Conference Center in Bangkok, Thailand on 22nd December 2010.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/shilpasayura#p/a/u/0/qkBCIb5_V8U"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkBCIb5_V8U&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmsfTmDpWg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmsfTmDpWg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the full paper is at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7247344891650937769?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7247344891650937769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7247344891650937769' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7247344891650937769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7247344891650937769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/02/shilpa-sayura-is-social-change-maker-at.html' title='Shilpa Sayura is a Social Change Maker at Telecentres'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8783860275311336636</id><published>2011-01-17T23:40:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-17T23:40:49.231+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ICT in dissater response and recovery</title><content type='html'>Simple use of ICT , Social Media , Telecentres can help creating support networks that helps the disaster relief process. . ICT&amp;nbsp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/1cGwlU-yooYySTBPBrm3VFZqS14I25LEMlgGybZ3pxEMKymksBeZyJNrW9DhoUTcLonZgdenE7wh8bCwfXA6K8SQlLjSG2HO/DSC_0433.JPG" target="_self"&gt;&lt;img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com/files/1cGwlU-yooYySTBPBrm3VFZqS14I25LEMlgGybZ3pxEMKymksBeZyJNrW9DhoUTcLonZgdenE7wh8bCwfXA6K8SQlLjSG2HO/DSC_0433.JPG?width=500" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needs assesment, relief, recovery, resource allocation can't be done without adequate and corect information. Major policy decisions can be made on correct information recived from ground. Traditional media are more market driven and covers incidents that create suspence and thrillar.&amp;nbsp;Hence there are many gaps left in dissaster communication. ICT and Social media can make a big difference in disaster rocovery and re-building as it comes from nuetral souces and community who are on ground close to the victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first action is creating media to make awareness of the scale and impact of disaster. Providing large amounts of information on&amp;nbsp; gound condtions assesment can only be &amp;nbsp;done by visits and talking to the victims. Photos, videos, voice cuts are best information peices, including text. 3G and moibile connectivity help communicate through internet when all transpotation is distrupted. SMS and dual sim mobile phones are greatest tools. Making local contacts and connecting support directly can be done sharing information and enabling peer to peer communicartion. ICT can be used to initiate relief collecting processes, and telecentres could become nationa wide collecting centers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Simple example of ICT in dissater response and recovery is &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://childreninthefloods.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://childreninthefloods.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which provides Field Reports from Sri Lanka Floods 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This web site using social media and web 2.0 connected many soicial workers and support organizations in Sri Lanka Floods 2011 can be good case of ICT in Disasaster Communication, yet we have to wait to learn how it progress and impact crearted in dissater recovery and re-building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="400" width="600"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F106919698033828437871%2Falbumid%2F5562122044623359905%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" /&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque" /&gt;&lt;embed wmode="opaque" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F106919698033828437871%2Falbumid%2F5562122044623359905%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8783860275311336636?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://childreninthefloods.blogspot.com/' title='ICT in dissater response and recovery'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8783860275311336636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=8783860275311336636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8783860275311336636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8783860275311336636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/01/ict-in-dissater-response-and-recovery.html' title='ICT in dissater response and recovery'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-5500209275314932747</id><published>2011-01-12T04:25:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-12T04:26:48.561+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Responding to Disasters: Telecentres can h elp?</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During tsunami we saw how people helped victims; It took several years to recover from after effects. These floods are much worse than we thought it would be. At least 300,000 children are displaced. Right now the children are hungry and need clean water; their health would be in danger staying in camps. When floods recede more problems will emerge. Their houses are damaged; their parents farms destroyed and their books and cloths are washed away. Their schools destroyed furniture and records washed away.&lt;br /&gt;Their education will be effected long term basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this moment Sri Lanka needs help. ICT and Telecentre networks can be an immense value by&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Taking the message to communities&lt;br /&gt;- For creating and sharing social media&lt;br /&gt;- Advocating support from contacts&lt;br /&gt;- Becoming local collection centers&lt;br /&gt;- Becoming distributing, supporting and information centers in disaster areas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Telecentres can create a value for community, in this national disaster, their purpose would be justified demonstrating their value in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teachers of Shilpa Sayura have initiated a drive for supporting children education rebuilding. Our Team is visiting disaster locations to collect information and asses needs of children for planning support during and after floods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our team will report from field on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://childreninthefloods.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecentres deep rooted in communities can help managing disasters in a collective manner.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-5500209275314932747?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/5500209275314932747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=5500209275314932747' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/5500209275314932747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/5500209275314932747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/01/responding-to-disasters-telecentres-can.html' title='Responding to Disasters: Telecentres can h elp?'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8728204103371750165</id><published>2011-01-03T00:01:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-03T01:15:35.907+05:30</updated><title type='text'>FaceBook and Google : A Valuble Lesson for Telecentre Movement</title><content type='html'>Wish You all a Happy New Year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 Google( 7.10%), Yahoo (6.82%), and YouTube (2.65%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/TSDE0yrtnBI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qWADos15rXo/s1600/rabbitrace_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/TSDE0yrtnBI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qWADos15rXo/s400/rabbitrace_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557658351412550674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Facebook didn’t beat the traffic garnered by all of Google’s properties combined (9.85%). There are rumors that Facebook is planning to launch their own email and map services. The trend is for facebook to grow much stronger. There is also a trend for Google engineers to join facebook team. However Google who set new standards on web would not give up. It would be interesting to see their battle for supremacy on web. With the fast growing Asian internet users, we can expect more to join facebook membership. The question is how it will affect the members of both Google and facebook. Facebook announced that they have reached 500 million users mark. Google has only 180 million members. Where did rest come from? This mean most of the internet users are in facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facebook is not only the only rival of Google. Soho is planning to take more Google users with its killer office applications and cloud services. It would be interesting to see how Google will approach this internet war by changing its business plans. Google is already phasing out Google wave and restructuring Google Groups. One thing clear from this case, that there is no permanent king on web. Simple ideas and innovations are shifting balance of power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Telecentres were started there was no access to ICT in rural communities. Now individual ownership of computers has grown much. People have opened small one to two computer communication centers. There are new networks of ICT centers are blooming. The model of "Technology for the village" may not hold Telecentres in this growing competition. It’s still a question with 500 million users on facebook, why Telecentres are not becoming rich like facebook? Is this 500 million users does not represent much villagers? We need to findout! Even at telecentre.org we have less than 3000 members of 500 million of those on facebook. In e India Telecentre forum 2010 we had less than 20 members and Only one Telecentre operator who had to make it there with all difficulties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new blossoming of business oriented communication and ICT centers seem much sustainable due to their entrepreneurship spirit. But they lack social component of ICT. Hence they will not fulfill the needs of underserved which we are aiming through Telecentres. The current content and services model seems traditional when we compare new services potential in Telecentres. Telecentres would be challenged by their rivals emerging in corners of villages. It is a good scenario in terms of ICT capacity growth, however will not be quite productive in social change, bridging of the social and knowledge gaps and developing the society. Therefore taking an example of Facebook and Google case, Telecentres need to consider newer business and operating model becoming a strong network of social enterprises that provides attractive and valuable content and services to improve quality of human life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Telecentre model that we are enjoying to last long. Telecentres need to change, transforming new challanges to opportunities through Social Innovations to create wealth for Telecentres. Social innovation does not come easy. It’s a spin off process of innovation, research and leadership having practical approaches that works well in rural communities. We have to find a new means of inclusion and engagement of grass roots in the conversation for development. I think that we don’t listen adequately. During several years working with Telecentres, I have found that Telecentre based development is a people driven process. The real champians are those on ground. We need to bring in high moral values and encouraging grassroots leaderships, recognition of good works, creating equal opportunities and transparency as essence of  development. Telecentres hence needs to approach the process of development with practical strategies that serves the needs grass root Telecentres and such a development processes to be driven by brain rather than heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing ~ &lt;br /&gt;   Aristotle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8728204103371750165?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8728204103371750165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=8728204103371750165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8728204103371750165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8728204103371750165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2011/01/facebook-and-google-valuble-lesson-for.html' title='FaceBook and Google : A Valuble Lesson for Telecentre Movement'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/TSDE0yrtnBI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qWADos15rXo/s72-c/rabbitrace_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6888676932579674201</id><published>2010-12-18T17:23:00.008+05:30</published><updated>2010-12-18T18:21:11.009+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ශිල්ප සයුර ගැන පුංචි සිත් සටහනක්‌!</title><content type='html'>ශිල්ප සයුරට වසර 4 යි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyjax8uOgI/AAAAAAAAAEY/O0ebaQ0vKBw/s1600/d478.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551992121120930306" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyjax8uOgI/AAAAAAAAAEY/O0ebaQ0vKBw/s320/d478.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2006 නොවැම්බර් 15 වැනිදා අප කොළඹින් පිටත් උනේ ගමට අළුත් දෙයක් අරගන. අපි එනකන් සබරගමුවේ, මාතර, මොණරාගල සහ හම්බන්තොට නැණසළ 20ක් බලාගන හිටියා. ශිල්ප සයුර නැණසළවලට ගෙනියනකොට සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ගම්වල තිබුනේ නෑ. තිස්සමහාරාම ළමයි කළේ නාසා පිංතූර බලන එක. නැණසළ වල වයිරස් පිරිලා. නෙට්වර්ක් වැඩ කළේ නෑ. අපි ශිල්ප සයුර විතරක් නොවේ නැණසළට අලුත් තාක්‍ෂණයත්, නව බලාපොරොත්තු එකතු කළා. පුංචි වැඩසටහන් කරලා ගම නැණසළට එකතු කළා. අපේ කණ්ඩායමත් නැණසලත් එක්ක විශාල උනා. අපිත් හූඟක් දේ ඉගන ගත්තා, අඩුපාඩු හදාගන අපිත් වෙනස් උනා. ශිල්ප සයුරත් දිගටම දියුණු උනා. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලබාගත් ප්‍රථම, දෙවන හා තෙවන ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මාන අපි ගෙන ආවා. අන්තර්ජාලයේ නොතිබුණ කණ්ඩියපිටවැව වගේ ගම් ගණනාවක් ගැන ලෝකය දැනගත්තේ අපි ඒ ගම් වලට ගියාම. වහලා තිබුණ නැණසළ ගණනාවක් නැවත විවෘත කරලා අති සාර්ථක මට්ටමට ඒම අපට සතුටක්. අපි ලබාගත්ත නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයටත් , 5 ශිශ්‍යත්වයටත්, ඉන් ලද ශිශ්‍යත්ව ආධාරයටත් දැන් ණය නැහැ කියලා හිතෙන එක සාධාරණ සතුටක්. හැමදාමත් නැණසළ දියුණුවත් ශිල්ප සයුරේ දියුණුවත එකට බැඳී තිබුනා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyq0cMZxXI/AAAAAAAAAEo/uHGc9bEA35E/s1600/i14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552000258539111794" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyq0cMZxXI/AAAAAAAAAEo/uHGc9bEA35E/s320/i14.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඒක තමා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණයෙන් සංවර්ධනය කියලා අපිට තේරුණේ.&lt;br /&gt;වෙනස් කම් තිබුණත් ගැටළු විසඳාගන එකට වැඩ කිරීම.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර ගමනේදී අපට හොඳ නරක හැම දෙයක්ම ලැබුනා. ගම්වල දෙමාපියන්ගෙන් ලැබුණු ආශිර්වාදයත්, නැණසළවල සහෝදර සහෝදරියන්ගෙන් ලද ශක්තියත්, ICTA ලද සහයෙනුත්, දේශීය විදේශීය පිළිගැනීමෙනුත් ලද පන්නරය අපට තිරසාර ලෙස මහපොළවේ පැළවෙන්නට අවස්ථාව ලබාදුන්නා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඒ අතීතය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ වර්ථමානය!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 දෙසැම්බර් මාසේ 21 වෙනිදා තායිලන්තයේදී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ&lt;br /&gt;මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී "සමාජ සංවර්ධනය සඳහා අනාගතයේ ලෝකයේ නැතුවම බැරි තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන" සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේදී&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර නිබන්ධනය ඉදිරිපත් කෙරෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Future Imperatives of Communication and Information for&lt;br /&gt;Development and Social Change)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මාතෘකාව&lt;br /&gt;Local language e learning at rural Telecentres -&lt;br /&gt;An imperative of ICT for increasing access to education&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jcconference.co.cc/.It"&gt;http://www.jcconference.co.cc/.It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අප මේ ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ ඉ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් බිහිවූ ඉ සමාජයේ , නැණසළේ සහ සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සාර්ථකත්වයයි. ඒක අප කවුරුත් එකමුතුව කළ වැඩක් ලෙසයි අප සළකන්නේ. අප කළේ එය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමයි. අවුරුදු 5 ක ශිල්ප සයුරේ අත්දැකීම් ගැන මහාවංශය වගේ ලියන්න පුළුවන්. විශාල චරිත ගණනාවක්, සිදුවීම් සහිත රසවත් කථාවක් ඒක.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශිල් සයුර ව ICT4D පර්යේෂණයක්!&lt;br /&gt;අවුරුදු 4 ක මහ පොළවේ කළ මනා අත්හදා බැලීමක්&lt;br /&gt;එය සාර්ථකයි!&lt;br /&gt;ඒ අත්දැකීම චිශාලනය කරලා&lt;br /&gt;අපේ රටේ ග්‍රාමීය අධ්‍යාපනයේ&lt;br /&gt;ගැටළු විසඳාලීමෙන්&lt;br /&gt;ලොකු වෙනසක් කරන්න&lt;br /&gt;පුළුවන් කියලා අපට හිතෙන්නේ ඒකයි!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබේ සහය ලැබේනම් අපට ඒක කරන්න පුළුවන්!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර 2011 දැන් අවසාන අදියරේ.&lt;br /&gt;ජනවාරියේදී සූදානම්!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අනාගතය ගැන අනාවැකි කියන්න බැරි උනත්,&lt;br /&gt;මේ දක්වා ශිල්ප සයුර තුලින් ගම්වල දුප්පත් සිසුන් ලබාගත් දියුණුව ගැන අපට සතුටුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබටත් මේ ගැන කියන්න යමක් ඇති.&lt;br /&gt;අහන්න ආසයි අපටත් කියන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecenter.lk/"&gt;http://www.telecenter.lk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyjrvhpibI/AAAAAAAAAEg/RdeHHkdwBlE/s1600/DSC_6707.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551992412528282034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyjrvhpibI/AAAAAAAAAEg/RdeHHkdwBlE/s320/DSC_6707.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2007 Video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="390"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9IlfhIBo3Gk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9IlfhIBo3Gk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="390"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6888676932579674201?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6888676932579674201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6888676932579674201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6888676932579674201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6888676932579674201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html' title='ශිල්ප සයුර ගැන පුංචි සිත් සටහනක්‌!'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TQyjax8uOgI/AAAAAAAAAEY/O0ebaQ0vKBw/s72-c/d478.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8630008296703363073</id><published>2010-12-12T09:03:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-12-12T09:04:33.653+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Knowledge Management</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3 style="padding:0px;margin:3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/aSGuest14755-162982-knowledge-management-darwin-business-finance-ppt-powerpoint/" target="_blank" style="font:normal 18px,arial;"&gt;Knowledge management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="354" id="player"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?&amp;pt=2&amp;p=162982_633726774957345000" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?&amp;pt=2&amp;p=162982_633726774957345000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="354"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;"&gt;See more &lt;a href="http://www.authorstream.com/" target="_blank"&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.authorstream.com/User-Presentations/pcallioni/" target="_blank"&gt;pcallioni&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://upload.authorstream.com/multipleupload/" target="_blank"&gt;Upload your own PowerPoint presentations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8630008296703363073?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8630008296703363073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=8630008296703363073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8630008296703363073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8630008296703363073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/12/knowledge-management.html' title='Knowledge Management'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4021103213749408302</id><published>2010-11-19T23:48:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-11-19T23:52:07.124+05:30</updated><title type='text'>The wastelands as economic alternatives</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://owe.6.co.ua/2380/biofuels-stones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://owe.6.co.ua/2380/biofuels-stones.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://owe.6.co.ua/2380/biofuels-trees.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://owe.6.co.ua/2380/biofuels-trees.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/not-all-biofuels-are-bad-a-rural-india-case/"&gt;http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/not-all-biofuels-are-bad-a-rural-india-case/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4021103213749408302?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4021103213749408302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4021103213749408302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4021103213749408302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4021103213749408302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/11/wastelands-as-economic-alternatives.html' title='The wastelands as economic alternatives'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6618115532540444355</id><published>2010-10-14T16:23:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-15T20:51:26.743+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Economy and Eco Systems : A Tight Link</title><content type='html'>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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/images/2008-10/eco-business.jpg&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economy and ecology are interdependent in each other hence a constant loss of biological diversity is major concern of business as it risks of increasing procurement costs, transportation costs. New government regulation and changing customer preferences also impact business. Bio-diversity is influenced with emotions and also innovation  potential, hence offers businesses new opportunities and competitive adavantages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence its important corporations take biodiversity management into their product planning and projects to ensure success in business while protecting biodiversity. The procument, production, marketing, sales and distribution, R &amp; D and HR departments develop activities in sites and facilities, supply chains and material, prodcution and manufacturing processes and transport and logistics and personal which impact bio-diversity. Impact happen in bio-diversity are habitat change, Polution, climate change, invasive species, over exploitation. The business impacts are costs, brand vaue, prices, risk migitation and innovation. Combining thease impacts in a positive manner can help sustainable business development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/image/ecosystems/ecosystem_movement.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 550px; height: 573px;" src="http://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/image/ecosystems/ecosystem_movement.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using large amounts of energy, raw material, transport that emits carbaon, businesses impact heiavily on bio-diversity. The new constructions for office buildings, manufacturing facilities change habitats. If a wetland is used for a construction site, it will destroy the habitat and increse emitting of greenhouse gasses. Extracting rock from querries ploutes air and creates lung sickness among animals and humnas. Mutsui Sumitomo constructed a roof top garden of 7000 m2 in their corporate head quaters, in Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supply of raw materials and supply chain management need to incorporate bio-diversity ideas. large extraction of certiain material can change eco-system. Wood, Food, Fish, mineral industries need to re-consider their business practices. Product or service design need to reduce negative impacts on environment. This can be done increasing substituting, reducing and recycling options. . Positive effects can be created by using materials that contributes to the environmental conservation. Combining part of sales to a particular project is an idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manufacturing emmits waste water, greenhouse gases and hazardous material that negatively impact biological diversity. The production processes needs to be optimized through improved process designs to reduce raw materials and energy needs, that reduce production costs. sustainable fish farms make less impact on environment than marine fishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water is essential and scarce good. Rain water harwesting and storage in underground cisterns and collecting tanks, can reduce water required for manufacturing.  A Brazilian organic sugar producer developed a new green production system, replacing traditional burnt cane harvesting which lead to biodiversity levels 23 times higher than in conventional sugarcane farms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transportation in business  leads to the emission of greenhouse gases and dust and impact micro habitats.  Increasing transportation may take invasive species to new habitats and displace native species. climate change also can modify behavior of species, reproduction, competitiveness and feeding relationships, leading to shifts of habitats. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The employees of the organisation need to train on bio diversity management to help their decision making. Their volunteering time help protect biological diversity in the neighbershoods. It can also strengthen business and employee identity. Fujitsu group staff take part in reforestation in Thailand, Borneo and in Vietnam. They have planted 1.18 million trees in 670 ha of land. Similarly there can be wide range of effects on bio-diversity and business success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/handbuch_biodiversitaetsmanagement_bf_en.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Reference : Hand Book of Bio Diversity Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6618115532540444355?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6618115532540444355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6618115532540444355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6618115532540444355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6618115532540444355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/10/ecosystems-are-indispensible-for.html' title='Economy and Eco Systems : A Tight Link'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6451001802599758439</id><published>2010-09-17T14:36:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-17T14:37:00.183+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Six : The Social Change With In</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMs_klIpvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/dW9lAm_JZpg/s1600/six.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMs_klIpvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/dW9lAm_JZpg/s400/six.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517803439121802994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lively workshop at Singapore Mangement University (SMU))&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The SIX (Social Innovation eXchange) event not only enlarged my knowledge but created new insights expanding our vision into new approaches how climatic change could impact all areas of social-economic and environment development activities we are doing at grass root Telecentres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The workshop was greatly engaging, bringing in social innovation knowledge from all parts of the world, covering enormous number of issues, solutions, experiences and future insights that initiated a change with in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I would take back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be going back to Sri Lanka, and energized to share my knowledge acquired with my colleagues, partners and rural communities who work and help us make impact innovations to create visible and measurable social change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new people I met from Singapore, Australia, Europe, America and Canada is great resource of knowledge and a valuable network to create global partnerships to future social innovations. They are also a new form of happy and committed people driven by passion for social change and feeling good about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanking Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;usually thanking is done in personal notes, but this time I make a little change to express my personal thoughts in a much open manner, it probably is a result of attending openICT4D conference and workshop in Ottawa. The list is big, I start with Lien Center Team, who found Shilpa Sayura and gave Shilpa Sayura a new Mission, Young Foundation who supported a great amount of knowledge to emerge from within, All members who accommodated and exchanged their knowledge, All speakers, moderators who kept the workshop a lively one. First time in my life I never felt sleepy during 3 days workshop sessions. It was like begining of an un-ending journey of new learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMuThuIv0I/AAAAAAAAAEI/rgv9Qe-fVSc/s1600/solar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMuThuIv0I/AAAAAAAAAEI/rgv9Qe-fVSc/s400/solar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517804881463263042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Off Grid Solar Power application in Marian Bay Gallery, Singapore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking part in SIX in the City 2010, Singapore, a new change happened. They are many. However among the most prominent is to expand our focus also to include urban community in poverty alleviation, integration of green approaches to our ICT4D designs making it a ICT4GD (ICT for green development), and to have a global focus emerging from our local experiences. Among the new approaches we want to change into are collaborative innovations, designing for scale and spread, network centric innovative organization, urban inclusion, changing cities we live in, “rurbanization” , Non profit to Enterprise approaches, incorporating climatic change, global and regional partnerships are a few. This kind of insights was not available to us before in Sri Lanka. As an emerging nation after many years of social struggle, we can make use of these to help change our grass root initiatives, in small and little but effective ways both in 15000 villages, 26 cities and 150 towns. The challenge is to build a social innovators collaborative network of people and organizations with a new shared vision representing each level of the social entities of Communities, Govenment and Business to initiate a social change to address 21st century challenges that we are facing and survive in the catastrophes in time to come. One of the greatest lessons learned at SIX was “Go ahead and do it” .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s the core social change with in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMvEFra9PI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/nOHxOP9D4Ks/s1600/vg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMvEFra9PI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/nOHxOP9D4Ks/s400/vg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517805715749270770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rain water fed, vertical garden at Mariana bay Gallery, Singapore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6451001802599758439?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6451001802599758439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6451001802599758439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6451001802599758439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6451001802599758439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/09/six-social-change-with-in.html' title='Six : The Social Change With In'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TJMs_klIpvI/AAAAAAAAAEA/dW9lAm_JZpg/s72-c/six.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-3320198516232745437</id><published>2010-08-12T05:43:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-12T07:47:39.480+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Impact of openness in grassroot empowerment</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align:left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/EcazCIV6damEPD-D2bGOR99TpMxOrNJQR34Jomwc7g-5zOET0T8ydaXas0XWdVqhoHoh6hYzZRvl3XjtmvEWJCp39jmH7P4s/DSC_5231.JPG" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I witnessed this year Murali Krishna winning e-INDIA 2010 Award for best Telecentre initiative for the project &lt;b&gt;AraviKalanjam&lt;/b&gt; 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 competition. Many students who took part had not used ICT before. The project involved training, content creation be students and hosting. As I closely observed the project, Murali Krishna went through many challenges from beginning to end. He addressed his problems creating partnerships. His openness made partnerships work. Last moment he had to fly in business class to receive the award in Hyderabad. In my point of view Murali Represents the success of Sri Lanka Telecentres, a milestone of Sri Lanka ICT4D movement where an actual grass rooter reached helm though ICT4D.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In 2006 I met Murali Krishna of Haldummulla Nenasala, a humble Telecentre operator and an energetic youth. He partnered with us to implement Shilpa Sayura pilot. Our partnership became strong during Regional Impact Team Assignment of Uva Province given by ICTA. We were able to create an open participatory platform called E3, where grass roots Telecentre operators could emerge as local leaders, develop them self, create impact in their communities and achieve heigher goals.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our capacity building included a special training on project design and implementation. As a result 5 Telecentres were able to win grants from ICTA e-Society Development (e-SDI) initiative. We assisted in developing proposals, advised in implementation issues but they made the efforts for successfull completion and impact. The E3 development initiative we implemented in 60 Telecentres in Uva province helped developing many Telecentre champions finally won e-INDIA 2009 Award. Murali Krishna accepted the award together with me representing multi-stake holder partnership initiative of Uva Province Project E3 (RIT 2008/2009).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/09/e3-4-lesson-from-e-india-2009-awards.html" target="_blank"&gt;E3 - 4: A Lesson from e-India 2009 Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The case&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The case of Murali Krishna is worthy of further study. What made his inspiration? What were the challenges faced and how they were overcome? It will help us to learn and knowledge we acquire can guide us to replicate and develop other grass root youth in similar way. I believe in this process openness in inclusion, collaboration and partnerships may have played a major part of development leading to this is a measurable Impact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The significance of Murali Krishna’s award is that it shows how Telecentres can help developing of grass root youth leadership emergence and how they can reach higher goals to create benefits to the community around them and bring fame and recognition to the marginalized societies they represent. In this context our learning will definitely challenge theoretical development models we tend to follow, without knowing actutal possibilities and influencing us to change our approaches making development more open and inclusive reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we can believe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Telecentres can empower people throgh openness!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/7MxAJIF2nlDkWl9MvMRJACD18asZlB3hQjZW6xfG2M9DFonomC94bRucnGiMFaPYL4V7O9Ar3vj5PmTqRF6s40ePArQdwqhd/DSC_4635.jpg?width=500" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-3320198516232745437?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1641069274896364816</id><published>2010-07-31T01:24:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-31T01:31:32.220+05:30</updated><title type='text'>My Research Papers 2007- 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/1_Shilpa_Sayura_2007.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/1_Shilpa_Sayura_2007.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/2_Shilpa_Sayura_else.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/2_Shilpa_Sayura_else.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/3_srilanka_india_elearning.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/3_srilanka_india_elearning.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/4_e3-e-India.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/4_e3-e-India.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/5_Knowledge_Through_Cables.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/5_Knowledge_Through_Cables.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/6_E3_SI_M&amp;amp;E_CSSL_2.1.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/6_E3_SI_M&amp;amp;E_CSSL_2.1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/7_ICT4D_Up_scaling_and_Replication-paper4.1.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/7_ICT4D_Up_scaling_and_Replication-paper4.1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/8_knowledge-outside-classrooms1-pape4.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/8_knowledge-outside-classrooms1-pape4.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/9_openICT4D_IDRC_paper_draft_4.0-1.pdf"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/papers/9_openICT4D_IDRC_paper_draft_4.0-1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1641069274896364816?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/1641069274896364816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=1641069274896364816' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1641069274896364816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1641069274896364816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-research-papers-2007-2010.html' title='My Research Papers 2007- 2010'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-495691948550613410</id><published>2010-07-22T03:46:00.012+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-22T05:04:20.867+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Are local languages marginalized in ICT4D?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEd5G2JP8KI/AAAAAAAAACo/ydoLmdPxb1U/s1600/_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496495028749463714" style="WIDTH: 362px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 237px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEd5G2JP8KI/AAAAAAAAACo/ydoLmdPxb1U/s320/_3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 (English) were not directly usable for local languages. The ICT4D path of local language is not easy. It's not simply a matter of money money. Commitment is important success factor. It took several years to convince Microsoft to include Sinhala Language support in WindowsThe popular databases still not do not index local languages properly. The support for local languages is not guaranteed when someone buys software. Shilpa Sayura a Local Lanaguge e Learning project started in 2005, just getting consolidated. This could be common issue in over thousands of local language used across the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEd56n7SP2I/AAAAAAAAACw/79jRt46IFuY/s1600/_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496495918285995874" style="WIDTH: 370px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEd56n7SP2I/AAAAAAAAACw/79jRt46IFuY/s400/_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be thought as "fair enough" to for the technological developments to focus on English language as it is widely spread around the world and has a bigger market. However countries like Sri Lanka 95% of the people are not English users. In numbers 15 million people do not use English. They don't understand the meaning of "Global warming" or "HIV AIDS" or "Women Empowerment". 9 out of 10 have no idea of Millennium Goals. In rural societies it could be 10 out of 10. The messages are not reaching the bottom of the pyramid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Sri Lanka we are proud to have 50% of the population is using mobile phones. Unfortunately people only talk and send SMSs in local words written in English characters. It's good for asking "How are you ?" like expressions, But can not be considered as a way of giving, sharing and tranfering of knowledge. 90% of people can't find about weather, bus or train schedules as information is not available in local languages. In the open source world there is no open source mobile browser that supports local languages. It is a major proprietary domain. For Nokia, a Langauge spoken by 15 million people is a tiny market. Someone may consider it as fair enough in a shrinking global economic environment. In a Disney movie a wonderfull character named Horton says "A person is a person no mater how small they are". I belive in it. How small a community is a community what ever language they use. It's belived that over 10,000 languages used in the World, But how many of them are represented in ICT?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEeCiOaIIbI/AAAAAAAAADA/I5lYDmzPZnU/s1600/_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496505394723824050" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 278px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEeCiOaIIbI/AAAAAAAAADA/I5lYDmzPZnU/s400/_4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If we make an on-line scan for ICT4D projects implemented during fast 5 years, how many of them targeted local languages communities is valuable question to answer. If ICT4D social investments have not benefitted local language users at the bottom of the pyramid; can we consider the our achievements as success of ICT4D? One major barrier in local language technologies development is that, a person who is able to communicate in English, no longer has local language concerns and the people who need it are not able to communicate in English to the global investment decision makers who don't understand local languages. In my opinion at least 90% of the people in bottom of the pyramid are excluded from knowledge revolution enabled by ICT4D due to local language issues. This is also one major drawback of telecentre sustainability efforts too. Local lanaguage technology and content initiatives lacks sustainable support. It's more than one time development. It's a continues process of upgrading as technologies change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing ICT infrastructure will spread hardware and access but not essaintial knowledge needs to make the change. This problem is not visible at higher levels and the details of the ground zero is lost as it moves up in decision ladder and most things important to bottom of the pyramid is dropped or considered unimportant at the summit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a major gap between marginalized societies using local languages and communities in developed world as they are not able to communicate due to language barrier. Therefore knowledge society seems to fade at language barriers and becomes different versions of an illusion from both ends. If development efforts really aimed at grass roots, we are unable to exclude grass root languages. It may not be easy to solve this problem single handed for global development investments work for poor people. If inclusion is the global development agenda, it must begin serving the local needs rather than global wants. This seems a hypothesis in my experiences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEeA8thEyrI/AAAAAAAAAC4/6L0rFsAgvPE/s1600/_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496503650727807666" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 217px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEeA8thEyrI/AAAAAAAAAC4/6L0rFsAgvPE/s400/_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education, Agriculture, Health, Economy like areas of rural life can be improved by emphasizing on development of local language technologies and knowledge and make them open for sharing across the developing world. It's time to look at ICT4D more openly on cases what doesn't fit in box rather than selecting what fits in pre-designed boxes. It's the only way to use ICT4D to improve rural societies who are not benefited with top ten global languages. Hence new ICT4D ideas should take local language as a multiplying factor for opening the global development in an effective manner. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-495691948550613410?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/495691948550613410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=495691948550613410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/495691948550613410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/495691948550613410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/07/are-local-language-societies.html' title='Are local languages marginalized in ICT4D?'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/TEd5G2JP8KI/AAAAAAAAACo/ydoLmdPxb1U/s72-c/_3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1406960964026264453</id><published>2010-06-18T03:29:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-18T03:38:24.877+05:30</updated><title type='text'>References on Openness</title><content type='html'>Thripitaka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Tipitaka"&gt;http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Tipitaka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In phylshopcal texts (Nagarjuna, Tripitaka)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=yCH7ueXrJowC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=openness+tipitaka&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=_jDBD13SFV&amp;amp;sig=R36Rtn1KOkXxqEh4VoxQVVMkFBo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=QJsaTMruA4mrcdPZrYcK&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCAQ6AEwBw"&gt;http://books.google.ca/books?id=yCH7ueXrJowC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=openness+tipitaka&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=_jDBD13SFV&amp;amp;sig=R36Rtn1KOkXxqEh4VoxQVVMkFBo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=QJsaTMruA4mrcdPZrYcK&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCAQ6AEwBw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Nagrjuna's more radical purification move renders purity and impurity&lt;br /&gt;along with desires, actions, bodies, producers and products as like&lt;br /&gt;dreams imirages," which are state of minds influencing openness. Nagajuna &amp;amp; Phyloshopy of Openness, Nancy McCagnecy, Rowma &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;Liittlefield Publishers Inc., 1997&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Openness is historically rooted from belief structures of human life&lt;br /&gt;grounded on scale of values that are relative, personal and subjective.&lt;br /&gt;Hence the task of developing openness requires opening ourselves as&lt;br /&gt;fully as to unfold development issues and to celebrate infinite&lt;br /&gt;possibilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most basic open development requires addressing the bottom of&lt;br /&gt;human suffering while not closing our selves for outside experiences&lt;br /&gt;and locking with established concepts, judgments and norms which&lt;br /&gt;limits the reality of outcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The school of openness influesence us to drop our discriminations,&lt;br /&gt;judgments and restraints in order to immerse ourselves in the dynamic&lt;br /&gt;flow of immediate experience, taking openness as an attitude towards&lt;br /&gt;experience that arises from carefully though judgments.&lt;br /&gt;In buddhism Openness is seen as an attitude of one's own mind its&lt;br /&gt;reactions to external affairs, suggests diligent effort and acute&lt;br /&gt;attentiveness with a note of moral caution and care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Openness can enable new truth to emerge. Understanding others&lt;br /&gt;involves openess towards what it seems rational, true or coherent&lt;br /&gt;which may cover something deeply unfamilier.&lt;br /&gt;Opneness may be discursed when somthing is blindly accepted&lt;br /&gt;without putting the subject at the issue&lt;br /&gt;.procession of thought, imagination and emotion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py"&gt;http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ideals of ‘Integration’ and ‘Openness' helps  tools produced in open&lt;br /&gt;development to use them in many different areas, including research,&lt;br /&gt;education, and other knowledge-related industries and sciences.&lt;br /&gt;education developmentwhy "education equips individuals with the skills and substantive knowledge that allows them to define and to pursuetheir own goals, and also allows them to participate in the life oftheir community as full-fledged, autonomous citizens." Stanford Encyclopedia of Phyloshopy, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"education as transmission of knowledge versus fostering of inquiry&lt;br /&gt;and reasoning skills that are conducive to the development of&lt;br /&gt;autonomy" (SEP) creates a tension between conservative and&lt;br /&gt;progressive education closely relating to human issues.&lt;br /&gt;can education be used as a tool for social reform and an agent ofsocial change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/education-philosophy/"&gt;http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/education-philosophy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About Wiki&lt;br /&gt;Inclusiveness &amp;amp; More User Involvement:&lt;br /&gt;Users get to take an active role in the web space. By the nature of a wiki, it opens up for people to edit, add, or erase any of the texts. This will make users feel as if they were a part of the community and continue using the website. Because of this openness, Wikipedia have more than two billion pages within five years, and we hope to succeed with this policy as well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1406960964026264453?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/1406960964026264453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=1406960964026264453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1406960964026264453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1406960964026264453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/06/references-on-openness.html' title='References on Openness'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-2602719330039253464</id><published>2010-04-05T17:43:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-05T18:12:30.172+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Openness : A Platform for rural developmeht through Telecenter Networks?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/10/open_sign_flickr_rightee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 375px" alt="" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/10/open_sign_flickr_rightee.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;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 sector have been involved in setting up Telecentre infrastructure. We also see large number of e society projects done targeting telecenter based communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see this whole thing as a development platform. A new methodology to change the world. If we look back last 5 years, we can see that a network of people , processes and infrastructure have been put together to develop Telecenter foundation which aims to change the world, specially the rural societies addressing their day to day issues with ICT. As Richard Heeks suggest, we have been using ICT as a tool for change, now our challenge is use ICT as a platform for development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This creates a clear question of what is development as development seems to interpreted differently by different societies and people. I think development as concept of "Positive Change"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we take a rural village as an example. Who and what sets their development vision? Do they decide it or someone external decide it? I think both angles are inevitable. The community has to decide on their needs, what if they lack information or have no idea of positive changes that can improve their lives? This is where external entities and experiences are useful to them. We have seen many NGOs operating in rural societies have not actually emerged from grass roots, most of them are external people who have more knowledge, resources, experiences and a concern. Sometimes we see this two groups work well as well as instances of conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenters started as ideas of an external entity in most rural villages.The post offices, Libraries are similar. Through a long term value creation they have become day to day life resource for village people. What is the position of Telecenters in this regard ? Will Telecenters become a life resource for rural people or will it continue to be an external entity within village. This is the challenge we have now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see Telecentre networks as infrastructure, human and institutions hence If we think Telecenters as a platform for development&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. How such a platform can become a driver for positive change?&lt;br /&gt;2. What changes we will want to make happen?&lt;br /&gt;3. What will be the approaches making a change happen ?&lt;br /&gt;4. How do we use Telecenters/networks to make the positive change happen?&lt;br /&gt;5. What fundamental changes we need to enable 1-5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These questions are not new, also there can be more questions added based on local, regional, national and global needs. How ever I think it's a good time to research what changes are needed in people, processes and infrastructure to use telecenters and their networks as a "development platform for positive change". As a start-up idea I like to suggest "more openness" at every level of development for increasing participation opportunities by wider social groups and entities. As this opening up definitely challenge already established structures and processes, there is an need of an open dialog on future development of Telecenters so that we are able to mitigate any risks and downsides of change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What changes can we suggest at local, regional, national and global level ?&lt;br /&gt;My next blog will follow on this topic..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-2602719330039253464?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/2602719330039253464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=2602719330039253464' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2602719330039253464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2602719330039253464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/04/openness-platform-for-rural-developmeht.html' title='Openness : A Platform for rural developmeht through Telecenter Networks?'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-134626067340366332</id><published>2010-01-13T23:40:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-13T23:42:58.830+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Is democracy a new pillar for Telecenter Development ?</title><content type='html'>Use of ICTs in Sri Lanka Democracy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It'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 Fonseka have used ICTs for their campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one way we could say that e version of the campaign is providing more information from both sides with regards to Candidate suitability to be president 2010. There are official and un-official activities can be seen happening online and off line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/Vt34OJ7vtxtZHaCy5gO7kvuJgYWVQUFSB7LHRMyhxi2U4sgjLUHUMFujLNmpidbp57TNFrcJYZSQKjj*JYh*7pjk*IY2XEpM/4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 179px;" src="http://api.ning.com/files/Vt34OJ7vtxtZHaCy5gO7kvuJgYWVQUFSB7LHRMyhxi2U4sgjLUHUMFujLNmpidbp57TNFrcJYZSQKjj*JYh*7pjk*IY2XEpM/4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Election Meeting - the usual Non ICT methods&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some examples&lt;br /&gt;Both candidates have their official websites&lt;br /&gt;http://www.mahinda2010.lk/ and http://www.sarathfonseka.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use of local languages has taken importance and allows rural people to use Telecenters for obtaining election information. However we find that there is a lack of standards local languages use in e campaign. The development of local language technologies have been benefited the campaigning. We can find lankatruth.com, www.lankadeepa.lk, dinamina.lk, divaina.com like news sources using Sinhala Unicode effectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are also un-official sites with content that provide inside information as well as exaggerated or false information with less reliability. Most of them are centered around election gossip, more like UK tabloids, sometimes more extreme in content; However an another reflection of people thoughts to have media freedom. Although questions media ethics, good for people to have access to all the views to make a decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sinhalablogs.com accumulates over 500 local language blogs and number of them involved with current election campaign. Number of them are anonymous. There are number of polls each one telling that the campaign is tough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Youtube had been a very useful for candidates who who don't receive media coverage. As an example an Exclusive 2 hour interview of General Sarath Fonseka aired on Sirasa TV. I missed it but heard about this interview which had a quite an effect on his campaign. Next day the interview appeared in youtube as a volunteer had captured and posted it online, so many people could watch this interesting interview, including me. That makes a big difference to obtain media freedom from alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The facebook has become a major communication vehicles for General Sarath Fonseka campaign. Currently recording over 45000 fans. President Mahinda Rajpaksa supporters also use facebook heavily using several groups formed. We can see there is great deal of involvement of online election workers, where most of them work anonymous or false name basis. However there is a person or group behind every true or false message. so has some importance when bits and pieces are matched. For some people it's like a festival time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Mahinda Rajapaksa campaign used mobiles effectively, sending a January 1st early morning new year wish to all mobile users, for which some people offended saying there was no reply facility. Sartah fonseka campaign uses IVR response system where phone users can can dial a number and listen to his message. Mobile phone news, specially from facebook have become effective in the campaign of General Sarath Fonseka. http://www.lanka4sf.com is mobile enabled website which takes election campaigning to another dimension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can observe that President Rajapaksa started advertising in many community portals, facebook and google ads early stages. All major online news papers carry his campaign advertisement. www.lankatruth.com, www.news.lk (government) and many political parties like unp.lk, www.jvpsrilanka.com, www.sandanaya.lk are some examples. However with web 2.0 facebook, ning sites are more popular among people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Referral SMS created by fans and election news seems to pass between friends and networks, can be seen as a strong medium used by supporters who are afraid to come out. Many people I talked in this research supporters of both major condidates. Most of the connected people used online information to make their decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Manifistos of condidates are delivered online Gen. Sarath Fonseka was to fist to present his 10 principles\. President Mahinda Rajapaksa Manifesto will be available here I was able to read the e version before I even see the printed, which actually I will not need. Usually manifestos are not found after 1 years of an election. But president Mahinda Rajapaksa still maintains it in his personal website.&lt;br /&gt;If ICT access is increased we can save large amount of paper and trees wasted in democratic processes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state and private media have taken up internet as an important vehicles for their campaign. Some TV and radio programs of state media also have been banned by election commissioner. The refferel emails, spams and direct emails, discussion forums as usual has increased tremendously. More than old days where people can listen to candidates, watch news live, but now ICTs are changing democracy space in Sri Lanka. ICTs have shown that they are superior over other media in impact and reach. ICTs have an increased capacity of campaign with the involvement of volunteer forces. Therefore it can be said that ICT can strengthen the democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With more than 4 million voters living in rural communities are unconnected, in the presidential election the battle is really at village levels where 70% people live. Those who have access to ICTs are benefited with availability of information. The unconnected really at a disadvantage as they lack access to important decision that will change their lives. So telecenters need to come forward as independent media center for the rural societies to improve local level democracy. As the connected groups are mainly intellectuals, they help create fusion for change. Hence an important community, which includes Telecenters and their workers. The e-ASIA, Nenasala 2010 like events with the participation of the president is an indication of ICT4D in political processes. Hence what ever the outcome of Sri Lanka President election, ICTs for it's superior ability to reach contribute immensely in a swing of change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For us, as researchers It's a question how this experiences can be made a new avenue of democracy facilitation and help Telecenter to improve life in rural societies ? How Telecenters are able to capitalize on emerging democracy needs of people at grass roots? What role Telecenters can play in helping to ensure democracy ? How can Telecenters use ICTs effectively to facilitate information freedom? What tools, methodologies and practices to be developed? Finally, How telecenters can can lead their local communities to help improve transparency, good governance and accountability and democratic processes of the governance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democracy leadership is a new pillar for Telecenter development to make a fair and just society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/WDBSbs1xIos4xsATgbyJ2EAJe-CC*s9Eoq0t6VGqj2F4vM5vF94AcmbNvVoRUVQMP7QHSvbsYLP1-YCh*J4Q92geV3D*Dfsd/22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 377px;" src="http://api.ning.com/files/WDBSbs1xIos4xsATgbyJ2EAJe-CC*s9Eoq0t6VGqj2F4vM5vF94AcmbNvVoRUVQMP7QHSvbsYLP1-YCh*J4Q92geV3D*Dfsd/22.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much people strive for democracy ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-134626067340366332?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/134626067340366332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=134626067340366332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/134626067340366332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/134626067340366332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-democracy-new-pillar-for-telecenter.html' title='Is democracy a new pillar for Telecenter Development ?'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1190904845383638453</id><published>2009-12-05T00:20:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-05T00:23:20.708+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Up-scaling and Replication? 150 Experiences</title><content type='html'>This paper was presented at e-ASIA 2009, December 3rd, Colombo, Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana, Shilpa Sayura Foundation, niranjan@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;Rasika Sampath, e Fusion pvt ltd, rasikabin@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;V Murali Khrishna, Haldummulla Nenasala, murali@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;Keeriagolle Dhammasara, Talakumbura Nenasala, dhammasara@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;Gayan Pradeep, Mahiyangana Nenasala, gayangayani@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;Gamini Chamara, Shilpa Sayura Foundation, chamara@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;Subash Dhanajaya, e fusion pvt Ltd, subash@info.lk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abstract&lt;br /&gt;Successful Telecenter based ICT4D projects encounter enlarged challenges, due to increased demand for up-scaling and replication that emerge from innovation and impact.  The vertical and horizontal up-scaling and replication challenges existing project strategies, organization capacity and hierarchy to reach sustainability. This paper examines the knowledge emerges from Shilpa Sayura - local language e leaning project up-scaling and replication success with references to the experiences, challenges and  lessons learned to emphasize how new forms of partnerships catalyzed an evolutionary process of Up-scaling and replication to ensure long term sustainability and hope to initiate a discussion on challenges of Up-scaling and replication to influence policy and future design approaches of Telecenter based ICT4D projects, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, Up-scaling and replication challenges project strategies demanding changes to overcome socio-economic, geographical and policy barriers. Committed individuals significantly increase potential for ICT4D success and wider institutional base is required for up-scaling and replication. Successful pilot projects undergo a transition phase of survival needing collaborative action. In up-scaling and replication stage wise approach is important. Creating local support structures are important and require formal arrangements. Ownership sharing is a vital strategy to facilitate emergence of local leaderships to strengthen the human line up needed for Up-scaling and replication process for long term sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download Full Paper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/ehVZrD9*B4tKOph1Xu4Mog33N8sZ9XYqTSEoxcns3fq12ccNHq3P7NsfgtF90HOF33MdTEOr4VJ99RYvADWV8JZmYbHEVwI3/ICT4DUpscalingandReplicationpaper41.pdf"&gt;ICT4D Up scaling and Replication-paper41.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1190904845383638453?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/1190904845383638453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=1190904845383638453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1190904845383638453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1190904845383638453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/12/up-scaling-and-replication-150.html' title='Up-scaling and Replication? 150 Experiences'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1430262365520526459</id><published>2009-09-29T13:36:00.009+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-29T14:11:54.949+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter Networks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodology&lt;br /&gt;for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter Networks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Team Leader, Sri Lanka Telecenter Community, 27th NITC ‘09 Conference &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sustainability Index (SI) is a new methodology used in M &amp;amp; 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 monitoring quantitative and qualitative indicators of Nenasala performance, which helped directing M &amp;amp; E Team to initiate appropriate Network Actions for technical support, content &amp;amp; services deployment, capacity building and advocacy resulting Nenasala Network sustainability Index improvement from 2.8 to 5.1 in one year. This paper describes Sustainability Index, It’s application and discusses results to suggest It is a useful methodology for M &amp;amp; E of Telecenter Networks, requiring further research to be developed as a standard instrument to evaluate Telecenter Networks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.0 INTRODUCTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sustainability Index (SI) is a new methodology designed to evaluate the performance and sustainability of a heterogeneous Telecenter Networks. This methodology designed through research and development to assist in an M &amp;amp; E process done by e fusion private ltd, on an assignment given by Information and Communications Technology Agency (ICTA) to improve the sustainability of Nenasala Telecenter Network in Uva province, which had faced critical sustainability issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHDTQiQ6sI/AAAAAAAAABs/Tikcamke_Nk/s1600-h/image003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386801364935436994" style="WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHDTQiQ6sI/AAAAAAAAABs/Tikcamke_Nk/s320/image003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Uva province is situated south east of Sri Lanka, (see figure 2.0) challenged with transportation, communications, and highest poverty. The 60 Nenasala are distributed across region. “Nenasala in Uva are quite common in infrastructure but unique by location, ownership and technology skills and the community they serve has a special significance in their uniqueness.” (Niranjan M, Impact Monitoring &amp;amp; Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.0 MATERIAL AND METHODS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The objective of SI was to provide a unique performance indicator for each Telecenter, Zone, District and Region to monitor and asses the changes resulted from the network development process implemented by the M &amp;amp; E Team. The research model designed took the network it self as the base learning model to monitor and capture periodic data on performance to understand issues and initiate collaborative network action based on shared strategies developed with evaluated community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.1 SUSTAINABILITY INDEX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sustainability Index (SI) describes 10 levels Telecenter capacity of sustainability assessed from monitoring data. Based on learning from sustainable Telecenters A SI of 6 is targeted as minimal proof of Telecenter Sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SI - Description&lt;br /&gt;1 - Telecenter is operational&lt;br /&gt;2 - Has Management Capacity&lt;br /&gt;3 - Telecenter Communicates&lt;br /&gt;4 - Has Technology Skills&lt;br /&gt;5 - Initiates Social Change&lt;br /&gt;6 - Reached Financial Sustainability&lt;br /&gt;7 - Takes Zonal Network Leadership&lt;br /&gt;8 - Takes Regional Network leadership&lt;br /&gt;9 - National Network leadership&lt;br /&gt;10 - Global Network leadership&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHBIzPNPyI/AAAAAAAAABU/RAk-ec3BJZI/s1600-h/image002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386798986248929058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 187px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHBIzPNPyI/AAAAAAAAABU/RAk-ec3BJZI/s320/image002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.2 ASSESING SUSTAINABILITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;SI for each Telecenter derived by monitoring sub characteristics of five key areas of Network participation, content and services, service quality, quantity served and revenue generated. Number of workshops participated, collaboration with network members, technology skills, management, service quality, number of users, community involvement, revenue and costs were some sensitive characteristics measured to asses the financial and social sustainability of Telecenter and forming Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.0 ANALYSIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHCE-71III/AAAAAAAAABc/zIGTTa-MAKo/s1600-h/image005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386800020181033090" style="WIDTH: 367px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHCE-71III/AAAAAAAAABc/zIGTTa-MAKo/s320/image005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Figure 4.0&lt;br /&gt;During the period of 1 Year Uva Nenasala Network SI grew from 2.8 to 5.1 (figure 4.0) and the poor performing Nenasala reduced from 32.5% to 18.3%. This resulted from many Nenasala becoming operational with Shilpa Sayura e learning deployment.Talakumbura, Thanamalwila, Siyambalanduwa and Girandurukotte Nenasala used e learning effectively improve their social sustainability and financial profitability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talakumbura Nenasala which was not operational at the beginning grew to SI of 7.0. is resulted from Technical, management, leadership training, deployment of Shilpa Sayura e Learning and involvement of the community which lead to improving financial profitability. Haldumullla Nenasala with M &amp;amp; E process developed as a National network leader obtained SI of 9.0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time Olagangala, Perahettiya, Kabillegama stayed at SI of 1.0 due to poor performance, lack of management and network participation. The SI was found to be much sensitive to availability of a capable Nenasala operator. The continuation of the same operator for a longer period improved Nenasala with M &amp;amp; E and effected performance when they leave. This situation improved by training a second row of operators. The Technology training on Virus care, Hardware maintenance, Sinhala Unicode and online communications, business planning, project development, Web designing and School ICT improved Telecenter as well as impact on the average network SI. The zonal leadership in Thanamalwila, Mahiyangana, Buttala, Madagama and Haliela improved the zonal SI and overall network performance.&lt;br /&gt;(See Table 1.0 and Table 2.0.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.1 CHALLANGES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unavailability of Internet and poor quality services hardware services, non availability resources like Multimedia projectors, Notebooks, replacement hardware and non corporation of some Nenasala impact Network SI falling behind anticipated level of 6.0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.2 IMPACT OF SUSTAINABILITY INDEX &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHC0R8NyVI/AAAAAAAAABk/7_LkebZJ81g/s1600-h/image007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386800832736774482" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHC0R8NyVI/AAAAAAAAABk/7_LkebZJ81g/s320/image007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SI was a unique indicator and helped early identification of Network issues to initiate appropriate Network Actions to direct technical support, content &amp;amp; services, capacity building and advocacy in M &amp;amp; E Process as well as indicated the effectiveness of strategies and lead to process and policy changes which improved the sustainability of Uva Nenasala Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.0 CONCLUSIONS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sustainability Index is useful methodology to evaluate the results of M &amp;amp; E for developing of Telecenter Networks and It could be applied to study Network growth directions and requires further research to be develop an instrument to measure National Telecenter Networks sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICTA, UVA Nenasala and E fusion RIT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.0 REFERENCES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Meegammana N., Sampath R., “Impact Monitoring &amp;amp; Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks”, Sri Lanka Evaluation Association, April 2009&lt;br /&gt;2) .Gómez R. and Hunt P., “Telecentre Evaluation a global perspective”, Report of an International Meeting on Telecentre Evaluation, IDRC, 1999&lt;br /&gt;3.) ICTA UVA RIT Assignment Reports, 2009&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1430262365520526459?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/1430262365520526459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=1430262365520526459' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1430262365520526459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1430262365520526459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/09/sustainability-index-applied.html' title='Sustainability Index - an Applied Methodology for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Telecenter Networks'/><author><name>Editor</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ZRbe6fuW8I/SsHDTQiQ6sI/AAAAAAAAABs/Tikcamke_Nk/s72-c/image003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7004669377985388468</id><published>2009-09-16T20:27:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-16T20:28:30.201+05:30</updated><title type='text'>E3 - 4: A Lesson from e-India 2009 Awards</title><content type='html'>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 the grass roots to make the impact and initiate the change for Human development. With regards to the project E3, this last bit of activity was done by Telecenter Operators. Although they are in the bottom of the pyramid, their value creates rewards and fame for many.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The term "community involved" now need to change as "community owned" to provide a better meaning of empowerment. How can we transform good initiatives to become large impact objects? how can we share the ownership with those who participate and help others to rise? Murali Krishna is my example hero of this story, and there are others in Nenasala pipeline who could be world examples for Celebrating Telecenter Success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh7cTBWIEZKvX946NoH5SuCW3Ikb4UdV4bbVyOT8hY09-LomudcnaLE6ehYDorRrnrxBlUPooFapV3KCFbO0OFF9/DSC_0710.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh7cTBWIEZKvX946NoH5SuCW3Ikb4UdV4bbVyOT8hY09-LomudcnaLE6ehYDorRrnrxBlUPooFapV3KCFbO0OFF9/DSC_0710.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 Acknowledges Photo credit to Dr. K. P. hewagamage, Head of E Learning , UCSC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The backgound story is here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Project 'E3' submitted by Shilpa Sayura, Sri Lanka won one of the two awards, in Best Telecenter Civil Society Initiative of the Year category, at e India 2008 Awards, held in International Convention center, Hydrabad, India on August 26, 2009. Accepting the award speaking in Tamil Language, Murali Krishna said "The honor of this award goes not only to me, but to all Nenasala operators in Uva and Islandwide Nenasala" The thanked President Mahinda Rajapaksa , ICTA, Shilpa Sayura and Nenasala Operators who supported this common E3 endure that improved Uva Telecenter Network sustainability from 2.6 SI to 5.1 in an year providing a new domain for Telecenter Development.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 formulated through Shilpa Sayura experiences and Knowledge shared by ICT4D experts from worldwide, field researched by through Uva Province Regional Impact Team (RIT) for Nenasala Telecenter M &amp;amp; E Assignment of ICTA. E3 provides an open participatory flatform for Telecenter Sustainability Development. E3 was presented in Telecenter Forum e-India 2009 and went to win an Award.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on project E3 : opens a new window&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/08/project-e3-briefing.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="More on project E3" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngYMr2uCDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/a0w9rJkwey8/s400/e3.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the story ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Murali Krishna became known to us four years ago, a humble Nenasala operator with Tamil ethnic background, but he managed a Nenasala in a Buddhist temple becoming a good example of ethnic harmony in Sri Lanka. Working with our team he grew with shared knowledge and expertise, became a network leader in Project E3 and Shilpa Sayura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result, He was apponted by ICTA as an ICT ambassador at 1st Nenasala Convention 2008 together with 19 others. He collborated in Shilpa Sayura pilot implementation, innovated revenue for Nenasala, partnered in sup scaling and replication in 150 Nenasala. He helped, motivated peer Nenasala operators, and won confidence as a leader; finally they selected him as their president of their community. a formal body formed by RIT M &amp;amp; E process. At elections he got equal votes but the Rev. Dhammasara Himi who had got equal number of votes said "Murali should be the president!". Making his first speech in Badulla, Murali Krishna said "Nenasala is my lifeline", it's local meaning says many things about him. When Murali Krishna took part in e-India 2009, he represented him peer community of Telecenter Operators, not him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What exactly Project E3 and Shilpa Sayura did for Murali Krishna and his peer Nenasala Operators. In E3 the third 'e' stands for e leadership, youth development is one major aspect of e leadership. Project E3 &amp;amp; Shilpa Sayura created an enabling environment for Murali Krishna to emerge and we provided resources, guidence, training, opportunities and finally shared what we owned with him to unleash his potential and He rose to the top. I think it's the meaning of empowerment. Murali Krishna is only an example; Trust me, We have more leaders on the line up; It would have been great if we could support all of them to go e-India 2009, where people learn and emerge unleashing their full potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember e-India 2007, where Shilpa Sayura first crowned with i4D Award. It changed the whole dimensions of Shilpa Sayura and we went to the top taking 20 Telecenter pilot to 150 Telecenter knowledge network by now and now we not only create content for e learning but taken certain responsibilities for Nenasala development partnering with ICTA. I hope same thing will happen to Murali Krishna and his peers in time to come. Sri Lankan Telecenters are in a transition stage now, as the World Bank project is ending. But we have developed a safety net by empowering leaders of Nenasala, and we are confident that they have the will and potential to become Real Telecenter leaders of tomorrow provided some support is made available. One major component of that support is knowledge leadership and mentoring for upcoming leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lesson we learn from Murali Krishna’s case is that, real leaders are out there in bottom of the pyramid which most of us hardly feel or not see. It's time that we look at from bottom up on the subject of empowerment, and create more space for real leadership to rise and take better roles in Telecenter movement which is an open participatory model shared by all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;CREATING SPACE FOR RISING LEADERS FROM GRASS ROOTS HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON SUSTAINING TELECENTER NETWORKS.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acknowlegements :&lt;br /&gt;Special thanks to CSDMS Team for Empowering those who were not known to the world,&lt;br /&gt;Probbaly we community need to get together to give them a people Award!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh7cTBWIEZKvX946NoH5SuCW3Ikb4UdV4bbVyOT8hY09-LomudcnaLE6ehYDorRrnrxBlUPooFapV3KCFbO0OFF9/DSC_0710.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/0heTNQBSoi-aCaw5svMwKKailUX5LmfBSnPfEBZsOJXLlv1XqKmXo5ZoY-aMqDmAyn8O74g09xAfY-vEzGdXlXK2B*EbOlw8/DSC_0710c.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh4CIdPfKPhKj1nziMddOQV29CNX4A7H5Y2aHMSttPDTYsrd1-ZgpE7BFrPAeCTxiZ-zQHAVB2bhc3502Px5f8u7/DSC_0710h.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh4CIdPfKPhKj1nziMddOQV29CNX4A7H5Y2aHMSttPDTYsrd1-ZgpE7BFrPAeCTxiZ-zQHAVB2bhc3502Px5f8u7/DSC_0710h.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally it was also a good tour to go e-india 2009, Lots of learning Interactions, Ideas and more lessons learned! Looking forward to more learning enhancements @ e-ASIA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/S*25XlCRG9nM7olqlKxUxTPFPxLJb8ZoWsH8-CsgHAXyobH-ivxarwGrVN48nwCtJQkrR*SAEs1Fn5Lwd3yuJoGoeXUcSL2E/DSC_0091.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vijayanagar Kingdom, Humpi has a major influence in Sri Lankas Kandyan Era Art and Archetecture, Had good relationships with Sri Lanka in 15th century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/09/project-e3-e-india-2009-highlights.html"&gt;http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/09/project-e3-e-india-2009-highlights.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7004669377985388468?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7004669377985388468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7004669377985388468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7004669377985388468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7004669377985388468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/09/e3-4-lesson-from-e-india-2009-awards.html' title='E3 - 4: A Lesson from e-India 2009 Awards'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngYMr2uCDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/a0w9rJkwey8/s72-c/e3.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-2756138978600347335</id><published>2009-09-01T15:31:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-01T16:00:19.026+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Project E3 @ e-India 2009 Highlights</title><content type='html'>Murali Krishna, Manager, Haldummulla Nenasala Telecenter and Niranjan Meegammana, ICTA Regional Impact Team Leader for Uva Province Nenasala took part in the e-India Conference held in International Convention center, Hydrabad, India from August 25-27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project 'E3' submitted by Shilpa Sayura, Sri Lanka won an e India Award in Best Telecenter Initiative of the Year category. Following are some highlights of the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh7cTBWIEZKvX946NoH5SuCW3Ikb4UdV4bbVyOT8hY09-LomudcnaLE6ehYDorRrnrxBlUPooFapV3KCFbO0OFF9/DSC_0710.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/0*SmWfp6lh7cTBWIEZKvX946NoH5SuCW3Ikb4UdV4bbVyOT8hY09-LomudcnaLE6ehYDorRrnrxBlUPooFapV3KCFbO0OFF9/DSC_0710.jpg" width="600" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"E3 is a Typical Example of Empowerment of Grassroots" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/ZS-MjTchm35SMFaP7Tprauum5AacQ67UKKbQiCQCYGPv4lVRyNqQVpe9ua0aKKg2L8ASfgBCxGt9FFluh8h4bpQA2el756rr/DSC_0710a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/ZS-MjTchm35SMFaP7Tprauum5AacQ67UKKbQiCQCYGPv4lVRyNqQVpe9ua0aKKg2L8ASfgBCxGt9FFluh8h4bpQA2el756rr/DSC_0710a.jpg" width="600" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-695699320106804490</id><published>2009-08-16T05:38:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-16T09:39:06.122+05:30</updated><title type='text'>E3 - 3: Developing Culture as Foundation for Future Telecenters</title><content type='html'>The interesting discussions on administration of internet content took my mind in multiple directions on explicit content related to different forms of knowledge and their use by people of different life styles. These life styles may have existed and evolved from explicit architectural and artistic masterpieces of Khajuraho, Konarak, Ellora and Puri in India (see &lt;a href="http://india.shilpasayura.org" target="_blank"&gt;http://india.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;) as well as Sigiriya in Sri Lanka, and anywhere in the world including Diana and heaven's touch from greece and rome. A popular belief is that they are all educational art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/LEqdLd7biSCPw3bc-Y54u0iiu-6Ijz82QxY0MZFNJ5wqusCkiHLO*TmoK4x2qr544i*DWCEs7iedvIrjUljkl73iX4eRgnvF/sigiriya__e3.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking back my experience in internet content, &lt;i&gt;The ISP salesman first sold internet access for homes for explicit content. I know many people who got into internet for curiosity of xrated material.&lt;/i&gt; This was around 1997. But when people began to realize the value of internet; their behaviors changed and such content become an option. People did better things like communication, education, business on internet. The next explicit wave was chat rooms, skype and social networks followed. Each delivers user generated live explicit content, which is impossible to be banned. The xrated business followed every evolving internet trend as it may have been a good money spinner for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Until around 2004, There was a general feeling among village people in Sri Lanka, that internet was harmful. When Nenasala Telecenters were setup in remote communities, People found that internet has better uses, especially for education. It’s the Educational content like NASA photos, Yahoo Kids and Minicilip Games were popular in most Uva Province Telecenters before Shilpa Sayura moved in.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scanning back, I can’t remember any serious explicit content case from any of the 587 Telecenters, So called violent shooting games like “Poject IGI” or "Doom" did not do any harm to children at Telecenters. Probably the Kids had only a little time to kill. I didn’t find any youth or child affected by violence games or explicit content. No parent had complained me so far. (This doesn’t mean that people don’t access such content from Telecenters. We sometimes found such content in temporary internet files and in offline hard drives. When we found, we always asked them to remove such content and made them aware of possible harms that can bring to a mind of a child getting exposed to them. Actually none resisted ethical and cultural develpment at Nenasala.) Generally I could say high majority of Nenasala are free from explicit content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Why?&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer is simple. It's the Village Culture. Over 40% of the Nenasala setup in Temples in Uva Province, creates nenasala a strong cultural and moral binding towards the society. Having setup by govenment created owner responsibility. I think Nenasala are much safer than any cybercafe, home or office connection and a camera phone could be more harmful. In this case Temples are ideal locations for Nenasala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/xb1uXvMFAsNNyowrRTKW6Db0yqbPiQhP2Tqf3VK-L6ZQiykyLc-nPmtLSg9qrFlX*YZTJ8K0U9Ou44hjMkzIYW65xyA5k3oT/culture_e3.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Shilpa Sayura e Learning, Nava Goviya e Agriculture and Project E3 for Telecenter Sustainability and Knowledge Society, we always allocated a strong stake for culture. Culture was the triple bottom foundation of each of the initiative. Not only from the outlook, but also from inherent philosophies of design, development and implementation. Culture was a key component, filter and enabler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Shilpa Sayura content Local Languages, Art, Dance, Music and History content set the perfect cultural foundation for entertaining education to attract Children to Telecenters. Internet is not prime choice of Children. In E3 we used local culture as the foundation for developing e learning, e business and e leadership at Telecenters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culture helped building mutual trust and openness in the network, helped to communicate and network people encourage participation and collaboration, in which E3 content played a major role. We found that explicit content can not harm a society bound with a culture, trust, respect and social ethics. What we need is to create awareness on better uses of internet, offer more interesting content and services like e education and e entertainment so that our youth will develop better taste in e content they use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is Sri Lankan context. Global context could be different as we are not the only people sharing internet and this wonderful planet&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I refer to recent open ICT4D draft paper when considering global context&lt;br /&gt;http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/12271304441Open_ICT4D_Draft.pdf&lt;br /&gt;By Matthew Smith, Nathan J Engler, Gideon Christian, Kathleen Diga, Ahmed Rashid and Kathleen Flynn-Dapaah of IDRC, possibly shows direction to an evolving doorway leading to a new parallel closely related to our work in Shilpa Sayura and Project E3. The paper initiated a discussion on openness; We are seeing a future of content that could be more open and creative in shaping future social models.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The definition of openness may not only be viewed as the ownership of the content but impact with factors like human rights, freedom of expression --. People may demand generation of content for alternative life styles. There will always be hardliners and softliners and in-betweens. The question is where, how and who will draw the thin red line?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In this discussion, Subash a colleague in my office said “Banning explicit content will create a new government jobs for a Explicit Content Administrators”, (I think he meant a joke). It would be hard for governments to administer morals of citizens in order to create ideal social models by forming more and more new laws.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instead, we can protect our youth from any harm that can occur from e content as well as e services through awareness, social watchfulness and buiding a trusted, valuble and reliable e content and e services is important. &lt;i&gt;For me, this approach is no differnt from protecting youth from getting into alcohol and tobacco habits.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How ever in Project E3 we have suggested following best practices for Nenasala Operators to avoid child impact from explicit content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Always watch, if there are any explicit material in temporary catche, specially, if the computers are used by adults, children know how to search images and videos&lt;br /&gt;2. Facilitate Internet and content use by Children in groups, never leave them alone!&lt;br /&gt;3. Keep PC monitors tuned opposite the walls, if computers are shared by children and adults&lt;br /&gt;4. Watch! for any strange/ suspicious behaviors among any user&lt;br /&gt;5. Offer entertaining and educating content and encourage valueble content creation&lt;br /&gt;6. Don’t let children below age 16, to use internet or email alone&lt;br /&gt;7. Dont trust google, wiki or any other website with under age children&lt;br /&gt;8. screen pictures in emails with corner of eye screen, learn which lists they subscribed to (child safety is better than child privacy)&lt;br /&gt;9. Make them aware of dangers of internet communications, spams, chat aliases and total strangers&lt;br /&gt;10. Form your own social network for training on net behaviors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With project E3 Nenasala Telecenters get transformed to community e Schools+village business center + a local leader in Socio – Cultural activities. Talakumbura, Siayambalanduwa, Kandiyapitawewa, Nagala, Haldummulla, Kandegedara, Balagolla, Mahiyangana, Mapakadawewa, Andaulpotha Nenasala are best examples among many more Nenasala in Uva Province, and probably they could be future E3 role models, who use culture as their philosophy of social foundation. There are so much to for us to learn from them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Their magic is done by building strong cultural foundation to develop a Telecenter model centered around trusted network of content and services. Therefore my conclusion is that&lt;/b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="brown"&gt;culture builds, binds and sustains Telecenter Networks&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/oMh8fGqnRqq-0Sx9W3YGP8oUiYhYTX5W33s*kUZqRAk4XdwgdaBK9KI6pt8iUX8STj54883LxBBCnwU1-DqQd*aLgnEgzbed/e3_sustains.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura, NawaGoviya + Project E3&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;http://www.telecenter.lk&lt;br /&gt;http://www.navagoviya.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-695699320106804490?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/695699320106804490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=695699320106804490' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/695699320106804490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/695699320106804490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/08/e3-blog-series-3-developing-culture-as.html' title='E3 - 3: Developing Culture as Foundation for Future Telecenters'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8135363364458400450</id><published>2009-08-04T16:24:00.009+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-17T07:12:36.748+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Project E3 Briefing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngYMr2uCDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/a0w9rJkwey8/s1600-h/e3.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366065562221676594" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px; BORDER-TOP: 1px; BORDER-LEFT: 1px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px; HEIGHT: 80px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngYMr2uCDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/a0w9rJkwey8/s400/e3.gif" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 abstract&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 designed as a concept, researched on ground to develop a replicable solution that will provide answers to Telecenter sustainability problems. E3 demonstrate that Telecenter Networks are an important development philosophy to shape future rural societies. E3 strengthened Telecenters by developing Telecenter Operators, Improved network wide Telecenter services and developed Telecenter leadership. E3 created impact in rural education, culture, commerce and peace. E3 used ICT4D to catalyze the development of rural societies. Project E3 improved Telecenters social and financial sustainability overcoming challenges in knowledge, resources, structure and change resistance presents a global model and an example of how to build, develop and sustain Telecenter Networks for shaping future knowledge societies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Introduction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 is a Public-Private-Community Partnership, innovated an adaptable, scalable and replicable solution for sustaining Telecenter Networks. E3 stands for &lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;e learning, e business and e leadership&lt;/span&gt;, designed to serve emerging digital knowledge needs of rural societies, develop micro economic networks and to address MDGs through Telecenter leadership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;The framework for E3 Shown below&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngX-Vse77I/AAAAAAAAAH4/No195j-x-sA/s1600-h/e3-concept.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366065315754995634" style="WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngX-Vse77I/AAAAAAAAAH4/No195j-x-sA/s400/e3-concept.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PrincipalsProject E3 based on open development principals is owned by collaborative and impact community, provides free training, Telecenter tools, e learning content and advice to community initiatives. Paying electrical bills through internet banking, offline e learning, scholarship programs, and community content projects are examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Objectives and Process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aimed at scaling up to 587 Telecenters in Sri Lanka, In the first year, Project E3 helped improving sustainability of 60 Telecenter network in Uva province by improving e services, visibility and usability. E3 developed Telecenter leadership by building local networks to enable peer support and collaboration to improve Network sustainability E3 M &amp;amp; E process integrated with capacity building, technical assistance, and content and services deployment is an assignment by ICTA which collaborated with Telecenters to transform isolated Telecenters to a Knowledge Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngajO5pmKI/AAAAAAAAAIY/iEbi0PqaKlQ/s1600-h/uva-e-3.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366068148609587362" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngajO5pmKI/AAAAAAAAAIY/iEbi0PqaKlQ/s400/uva-e-3.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Developing a knowledge society&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 reached isolated Telecenter operators, trained and made them local, regional and national leaders to lead Telecenter movement. Project E3 development is significant as Scientific, Technical and Social achievement as the process involved scientific approach to design of a solution, research and publications, Technical solutions that changed how Telecenters serve communities and development of Telecenter community as a knowledge society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 Methods&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 created benefits for all who participated. Making continued awareness, motivation and encouragement helped facing above challenges. E3 used mixed methods of informal and formal ways in handling bureaucracy and resistance for change. Open dialogs, bogging, group discussion, awareness, training all helped. Working with government and established institution always required formal approaches and practices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenter Operator Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E 3 Developed skilled Telecenter Operators to sustain Telecenters. Implemented e learning to improve 150 rural youth communitiesDeveloped Telecenter leadership forming Telecenter CommunityHelped securing more than $ 80,000 funding for projects for the NetworkCreated a Knowledge network among 150 TelecentersInitiated global collaboration for Telecenter Research in Sri Lanka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 Key Project Activities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- Uniting Telecenter operators for professional development&lt;br /&gt;- Establishing a common portal for sharing knowledge&lt;br /&gt;- Empowerment of grass root Telecenter workers to lead the movement&lt;br /&gt;- Development of Technologies and content for Telecenter operator training&lt;br /&gt;- Introduction of a Telecenter Operator certification examination&lt;br /&gt;- Developing a concerned community on Telecenter Sustainability&lt;br /&gt;- Involving Telecenter operators in the process of sustaining Nenasala Network. - The formation of Telecenter community Association to pave the way to expand and share development in other Regional Telecenter networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The E3 Development&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 developed Youth and empowered Women with equal opportunities in training and leadership opportunities. Hardware, networking, web designing like advanced training developed their technical skills. E3 helped increasing their revenue by securing funds for community projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenters faced risk of closing became operational and profitable with e learning services for National curriculum, helped youth to pass examinations and helped parents to save money from distance tuition. Networked Telecenters were able to share knowledge and initiate common projects targeting regional farmers, women, culture, environment, education and government services creating a knowledge network, increasing usage and revenue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The improvements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The improvement of Telecenters benefited communities with improved ICT literacy, communications, and access to knowledge resulting economic improvements. Nenasala operators, who lacked relevant knowledge and skills, significantly improved their communication, technical, management and leadership skills with E3 capacity building program which increased their motivation, collaboration and performance that helped securing of jobs, increased project opportunities to form an empowered collaborative knowledge network for Telecenter development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngZ-HBuDII/AAAAAAAAAIQ/rQX6fn9UaGs/s1600-h/graph2.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366067510840790146" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 282px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngZ-HBuDII/AAAAAAAAAIQ/rQX6fn9UaGs/s400/graph2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Obtained Results&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Achievements of the project &lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;Project E3 goal is to achieve a Sustainability Index (SI) of 6.0 by November 2009. SI is a 1 to 10 scale indicator that describes the Telecenter and Network sustainability position in E3 methodology. By June 2009, Uva Telecenter Network SI grew from 2.6 to 5.1. Weak Nenasala reduced from 38% to 18.33%. The average number of users has grown from 28 to 101 (364%) &lt;/a&gt;and average income grew from Rs. 7650.00 to Rs. 17597.00 (230%) with in a year. This is viewed as significant increase of performance in the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngZhULoURI/AAAAAAAAAII/XR6gxrkjOiw/s1600-h/graph1.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366067016155812114" style="WIDTH: 380px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngZhULoURI/AAAAAAAAAII/XR6gxrkjOiw/s400/graph1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 Imapact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The impact of E3 shows that Uva TCN sustainability growth by 96% in an year reducing closing risks from 68.3% to 18.33%. E3 formed a Telecenter Think Tank forming a Telecenter community organization to empower Telecenter Operators, involved them in planning, decision making and managing of the Network development process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 Outcomes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an outcome of the project E3 a new research framework presented to global ICT4D by presenting it in e-India 2009 as a paper and several papers published in international development conferences, is an indication of the acceptance of E3 methodology in Telecenter Sustainability development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 design based on several years of Telecenter and e studies, indicates a new direction for Telecenters who are facing a transitional sustainability issues. E3 building local, regional and National knowledge networks has helped Telecenters to develop a collaborative vision using e learning, e business and e leadership to serve rural societies that will help sustaining the Telecenters and Telecenter Networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;E3 Challenges and how were they overcome?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Getting the support of Telecenters and establishing a trusted network.&lt;br /&gt;- Bridging knowledge gaps among Telecenter operators.&lt;br /&gt;- Finding of resources to build capacity of Telecenters.&lt;br /&gt;- Retaining operators in Telecenters for continued contribution to the network.&lt;br /&gt;- Establishing common Network practices and standards.&lt;br /&gt;- Developing standards and tools for e learning and e business.&lt;br /&gt;- Collaborating with the government officials who were bound by various rules.&lt;br /&gt;- Limitations in knowledge and skills of Nenasala operators.&lt;br /&gt;- Implementing social innovations suggested by E3 which were new concepts.&lt;br /&gt;- Resistance from Senior Nenasala who were reluctant to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the E3 project design, we anticipated above challenges, and pre prepared with strategies to overcome them. The prime strategy was &lt;em&gt;openness, communication, inclusion, participation, collaboration and creating partnerships&lt;/em&gt; in E3.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;The Lessons Learned &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 foundation is openness, inclusion, participation and collaboration aims creating benefits for all Nenasala, ICTA, Service Providers, Local and provincial governments, schools, professional bodies and community to enable sharing of knowledge and resources, co-creation of services and share project ownership for motivation, speedy action and increased impact. Project E3 shows a promising direction how Telecenters could be made sustainable with e learning, e business and e leadership is a global example of open development for a knowledge society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Cultural integration&lt;/span&gt; was one of the important strategies in E3 development; it helped creating a common flat form and respect each other’s views.E3 found that transparency, accountability and good governance of the process can help overcome any issues that hinder development, in which empowerment and participation of impact community (Telecenters) makes an important variable on success. Therefore from the inception E3 shared the project ownership with Telecenters and created social and economic benefits for contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;What in Future?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 Telecenter Network Sustainability model is nation wide replicable. For global replication translation of content and adaptation of method required. Project E3 started replicating in 150 Telecenters in five provinces with ICTA e-SDI assistance. More Research is being planned to expand E3 experiences to other regions from January 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 demonstrated that Telecenter movement as one of best ways to shape future societies building a digital knowledge centered economic networks on Telecenter networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 achievements are local, regional, national and possibly global innovations and eye opener in scientific, technical and social context of Telecenter Sustainability Development Initiatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Key People Involved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;BCS qualified ICT4D activist, involved in grass root Telecenter development with strong experiences in developing e learning, e business in local language technologies. He is a Member of ICTA E-Society focus group, Head of K4D Special Interest Group, Managing Director of E fusion, and the designer of Shilpa Sayura Project which won I4D 2007, GKP 2007 and Stockholm Challenge 2008 &amp;amp; WYSA Global ICT4D awards. Niranjan is the Team Leader for Regional Impact Team for Uva Province Nenasala, appointed by ICTA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gavahkar Subramanimum&lt;br /&gt;ICTA Nenasala project manager, responsible for Island wide Nenasala Telecenter Network and qualified in ICT. Involves in Leading Nenasala Team and management of government services for the network and review of RITs and Hardware and Internet service providers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 Research Collaboration Dr. Peter Mozellius &amp;amp; Dr. Henrick Hanson Stockholm University, Sweden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rasika Sampath&lt;br /&gt;M &amp;amp; E Officer, is an ICT4D activist operating in grass root communities, Regional Impact Team (RIT) for Uva Nenasala, specialized in M &amp;amp; E of Nenasala, Nenasala Operator and qualified in business and ICT, member of Shilpa Sayura National Impact Team and registrar of Telecenter Community Association, Sri Lanka. Murali Khrisna Telecenter Manager, an ICT4D activist, from Haldumulla Nenasala, involved in grass root Telecenter operation with strong experiences in community development through e learning and cultural integration ICT ambassador appointed by ICTA and National organizer for Shilpa Sayura, ICTA e-SDI district consultant and The President of Telecenter Community Association.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gamini Chamara&lt;br /&gt;Deputy Team leader, Regional Impact Team (RIT) for Uva Nenasala, specialized in content and services qualified in ICT, Director C &amp;amp; S Shilpa Sayura Project.Suranga Sampath - Deputy Team leader,&lt;a name="OLE_LINK3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt; Regional Impact Team (RIT) for Uva Nenasala&lt;/a&gt;, specialized in Technology Services, qualified in ICT, Director Mathematics &amp;amp; ICT Shilpa Sayura Project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. Murali Khrisna&lt;br /&gt;Telecenter Manager, an ICT4D activist, from Haldumulla Nenasala, involved in grass root Telecenter operation with strong experiences in community development through e learning and cultural integration ICT ambassador appointed by ICTA and National organizer for Shilpa Sayura, ICTA e-SDI district consultant and The President of Telecenter Community Association.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rasika Muthukuda&lt;br /&gt;General Manager, e fusion, Regional Impact Team (RIT) for Uva Nenasala, responsible for Finance and general management&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yamuna Ratnayaka&lt;br /&gt;President Shilpa Sayura Foundation, National Curriculum Content Expert. Manages content creation process for Shilpa Sayura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Other Members of ICTA&lt;/span&gt; Sarath De Silva (Review), Janaka Manjula (Infrastructure), Gayani Perera (Review), Shriyananda Ratnayaka (Content), J K Perera (Review)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Other members of E fusion :&lt;/span&gt; Sarath Gunatilaka (Transport), Srimal Iresh (Content), Chulani Jayathilaka (Content), Saliya Randunuge (ICT e learning), Thusitha Randunuge (Web), Gamini Pathirana (Internal Audit), Tissa Senarantha (Communications), Suranga Dharmasena (Help Desk)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Nenasala Operators&lt;/span&gt; : Keeragolle Dhammasara Himi, Gayan Pradeep, Narada Asanka, Saman Kumara, Buttala Asela, Yapa Chandralatha, Samptha Eranda, Dilhani Balagolla, Linugala Deshani &amp;amp; Gayathri, Chaminda Mapakadawewa, Nisansala Wekumbura, Siri Udaya Himi, Siri Vipula Himi, Nuwan Bibile, Thaminda Balasoriya, Sajani Dilrukshi, Nandana Madugalle, Handesse Mahinda himi, Sampath Karunanayaka, Duminda Alahakoon, C I Clement , Dilip Kumara, Chaminda Siyambalanduwa, Janaka Srimal, Nalika Priyadharshani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Uva Provincial Council&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Mr. Wimalasena (Director Provincial Library), Mr. Sumith Siriwardena (Secretory of Education)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Sinhala Unicode Group :&lt;/span&gt; Vishwa Kumara, Dasun Sameera and many more Telecenter operators, professionals and community leaders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Related and useful information&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos"&gt;http://www.telecenter.lk/photos&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/shilpasayura"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/shilpasayura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nenasala.ning.com/"&gt;http://nenasala.ning.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://telecenter.ning.com/"&gt;http://telecenter.ning.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Related Projects in E3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Project :&lt;br /&gt;Local Language e Learning Initiative operating in 150 Telecenters in Sri Lanka. Provides Self e learning for National curriculum to over 10,000 students marginalized with lack of educational resources. The project has helped rural students to seek an alternative route to success in National Examinations. Project Won I4D, GK3, Stockholm Challenge, Diskobolos Awards and WYSA runner up (2006-2009).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Navagoviya Project :&lt;br /&gt;Local Language e Agriculture Project to provide e Learning on Sustainable agriculture for Farmers at 60 Telecenters. Intend to develop CSR assisted outgrowing, seeds and plants production for economic development, sustainable environment and farming practices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.navagoviya.org/"&gt;http://www.navagoviya.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed class="xg_slideshow" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/photo/slideshowplayer/slideshowplayer.swf?v=" width="500" height="394" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" bgcolor="#" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" scale="noscale" wmode="opaque" flashvars="feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecenter.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FslideshowFeedAlbum%3Fid%3D2566631%253AAlbum%253A4441%26x%3DKgCPYozVp97R20NapkaEmoPLOeeQfFVG&amp;amp;autoplay=1&amp;amp;config_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecenter.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fx%3DKgCPYozVp97R20NapkaEmoPLOeeQfFVG%26xn_auth%3Dno%26feed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftelecenter.ning.com%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2566631%25253AAlbum%25253A4441%2526x%253DKgCPYozVp97R20NapkaEmoPLOeeQfFVG%26version%3D4.9.2%253A25489_56_56_9&amp;amp;slideshow_title=&amp;amp;fullsize_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecenter.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2Fslideshow%3Ffeed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftelecenter.ning.com%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2566631%25253AAlbum%25253A4441"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://telecenter.ning.com/photo/photo"&gt;Find more photos like this on &lt;em&gt;Sri Lanka Telecenter Community Network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8135363364458400450?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8135363364458400450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=8135363364458400450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8135363364458400450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8135363364458400450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/08/project-e3-briefing.html' title='Project E3 Briefing'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SngYMr2uCDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/a0w9rJkwey8/s72-c/e3.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-3092537681098425628</id><published>2009-07-31T03:24:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-31T04:33:20.995+05:30</updated><title type='text'>E3 - 2: The formation of Telecenters Sustainability Networks</title><content type='html'>If sustainability gives a meaning of continuation of existence, it also gives a demanding target to exist forever. Which of course a question to me as our experiences are only 3-4 years; But there is a common consensus that &lt;i&gt;sustainability is a result of continues evolution like evolution of mankind and science&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Telecenters to sustain or to continue existance, they should continue to evolve in their communities, regions and nations as networks. As we have experienced, this process of evolution does not happen automatically like the human evolution was not automatic, in history many actors had made it happen. From Invention of the wheel to communication satellites evolution continued and will continue to future. Telecenters are also an invention, therefore needs to evolve to become sustainable and actors to make it happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/06/article-0-02EC002200000578-483_468x326.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is that "how do we facilitate this evolution?". &lt;i&gt;Four years ago when we setup first VGKs, they were aimed to provide ICTs for the rural communities as a means to bridging digital divide. At the beginning Teaching MS Office was a cash cow. Access to internet was a luxury and mobile phones were a few. Now after four years so many people have learnt MS office, use mobile phones and use computers at home with broad band. The market is drying up for traditional ICTs and still there are poor people who are unable own ICTs. Unless Telecenters offer better courses and services, they are not able to make adequate revenue to pay their staff, pay utility bills and mange other expenses.&lt;br /&gt;This means change. A change of Nenasala sustainability model and how they are to be supported ?, what norms to be made ? and plan for expected impact.&lt;br /&gt;But how?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before answering this titanic question, which of course has many answers, I think it’s better to understand little bit of background of Nenasala in local context.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Sri Lanka ICTA under the president office lead the Telecenter establishment. The initial pilot was 20, and later planned to scale up to 200. The first 20 setup had much equipment and support. Then, ICTA reached 500 Telecenters by speeding up the process, The new model  did cut down on equipment. In Uva province 28.3% Nenasala provided only two computers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first ones were provided with 4 PCs and newer ones given 3 PCs. Lack of photocopiers and multi media projectors were a major concern among operators. "If we have Multimedia projectors we can reach non ICT community like farmers and women" Mural Krishna a well sessoned Nenasala operator says. However general impression in Sri Lanka for Nenasala are improving now. People are begining to accept Nenasala exsistance as they are serving some of their needs. This increased distribution, reach and penetration of Nenasala into rural communities commended by Worldbank and greatly appreciated by community,  and specially children benefitted impact in e education, Nenasala becoming a breeding ground for future professionals of our nation is becoming a reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although 587 Nenasala were established, Some locations have no internet access. This may be due to informal processes influenced by different socio economic and political factors. During E3 the Uva Nenasala Internet access availbility grew from 40% to 79% which is much higher figure compared to other regions. However non of the Telecos were able to cover locations Balagolla, Anadaulpotha, Wekumbura like remote places who continue a good community service even without internet access. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sustainability was never a question for Nenasala owners at the start as they got all equipment, internet access and technical services free from the state agency ICTA. Some argue we would have thought sustainability first, and some say the more distribution and numbers is much better. My point of view is that quality in establishment can achieve both as  each motive has it’s pros and cons. However this is a tough ask in a country where development is mixed with political will, state beurocracy and local community needs. Nenasala have to satisfy all is a big ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uva province 40% of Nenasala are setup on Temples, 20% are privately owned and rest are managed by CBOs and NGOs. One interesting finding is that It's the Most of the Temples based Nenasala are the leaders in the network achiving both financial profitability and social sustainability. The poorest ones are CBOs as well as large NGOs who lack focus on Nenasala. This actually influnce us to setup more Nenasala in Temples and break misbelief that large NGOs and CBOs are the best form of ownership. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The designers thought as rural communities lack access to ICTs, the demand for ICTs will be created to make Nenasala becoming self sustainable. This has become an illusion, as many Nenasala needing some sort of external support to continue. Eureka in Ethimale Nenasala says &lt;i&gt;“We did a promotion, some people came initially and dropped, and now we wait , people are not coming”&lt;/i&gt; She and her friend open Nenasala situated in a corner of the village everyday and wait for a new customer to come in. They have a near by school with no computers but has over 400 students including secondary education students. They have never made a promotion in School or event didn’t talk to principal about it. Someone has to help them to make the bridge. That peice of support can change their form of sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/DojQAVM0JmraEPizqHvOOpzBqSTxnEQOApCaCkvyn2f9*tyLVuA34zqkFDJH5fm8DPOihNbeAMCF-jlFnVt6YqKdZUfRYwu2/DSC_7540.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="336"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;As we studied, the support needs of Nenasala vary by type and scale in the areas of Technical support, training, financial assistance, internet access, content and services as well as mentoring. As an example a financially profitable Nenasala like Bibile, Haldummulla and Thanamalwila need assistance in business planning, obtaining a credit card, writing a project proposal, small loans and sometimes they just need someone to talk.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can continue to argue why not all Telecenters establishments deliver expected results? But I think the learned lessons are more important to develop sustainability strategies. This requires inclusion of all key players and openness.  As an example giving life back to VGK Focus Group (Now Nenasala) could be a good Start. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One major factor affected Nenasala was shrunk in local economy due to war recently ended. Lack of local content and lack of cash in their communities was also a problem. But some ask question how can people have no money if they have such a number of mobile phones. They say over 9 million phones in Sri Lanka. I think the growth of mobile phone is a talking lifestyle rather than a information need. I am not yet convinced that mobile phones are a threat to Telecenters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Nenasala did well taking advantage of their location but many faced an issue of charging from their communities. Chief priest Kandewinna said “People know that, we get free services from the government and how can we charge people as a temple”. This is true in cultural aspect, but not logical in business aspect. We need to find a solution rather than pushing Kandewinna for getting money. One way is to make nenasala owned by community, who can invest in it. But this means sharing of ownership, which is still a question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another problem was local youth leaving village for popular jobs easily available in garment sector and Army. These jobs do not require ICT skills. Nenasala owners faced a problem to find volunteer operators. I mean people who work for free until some money is made and get a small portion of what they made. No one considered Nenasala Operation as a permanent employment. Some efforts to bring people from outside village did not work as they did not continue to come. Plan international assisted Therulla Nenasala finding a Teachers for the Nenasala, 40 students registered and dropped to 5 when class fees were demanded. The teacher stopped coming. Nenasala went back to still state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This requires Nenasala movement to re-consider volunteer model and find ways to transform it to a volunteer but a professional development model. "Protect Nenasala operators to protect Nenasala" a blog wrote was well appreciated by Nenasala operators. Professional development of Nenasala operators is one major area we focused on E3. We have been able to keep many operators in the movement as we formed an community association for them and leadershio training helped them to hang on to the network built by E3 process.  I can't imagine any process which can succeed, if it exclude simpact community at strategic decision making level. We need to make grass root empowerment a reality not an illusion for sustainability. E3 from day one, designed to empower grass roots, although it's tough task and a big ask to achive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We found that every Nenasala focused on kids who loved to play with computers. But they did not make much income as the kids could not pay from their pocket. When I asked Dilhani, Balagolla Nenasala,  Why they are making less revenue when 60+ students using Shilpa Sayura. She said “&lt;i&gt;There is a monthly payment of Rs 100/=,  but when we ask for it. They stopped coming, therefore we don’t press for payments”&lt;/i&gt;. When we deployed Shilpa Sayura which made their users grew in numbers, yet less revenue as the village is a corn growing poverty pocket which is one of the poorest AGA divisions in Sri Lanka. My friend Nuwan in Bibile Nenasala, may not agree on the principals of democracy, But we need a special package for sustainability of these Nenasala who help make social change in a location we need to change. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among 60 Nenasala researched for an Year, we learned many stories what impact Telecenters sustainability. Location of Telecenter is a great impact on financial profitability, how ever social impact depended on certain factors which sometimes lapsed in financially successful Telecenters. I remember my ICT4D friend Rajiv Ranjan who is gone missing in somewhere in Africa,  once said at e Society focus group that “If state money is spent on Nenasala, They should focus on social impact rather than business”. I bring out this little stories to suggest that Sustainability is an evolution and it has several forms and faces which we have to unleash by more research and development. E3 is just that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people suggest that It's hard for Telecenters to achive social impact and financial profitability. I agree that It is a challenge but believe it can be done, proved with examples of Talakumbura, Mahiyangana, Girandurukotte, Siyambalanduwa Nenasaala which were closed when E3 first moved into Uva province, after an year they have become Network Leaders. Each one is distinct by location, community and culture. What made them become excellent Nenasala and Network contributors is a real area for research. To start with it's a result of e-leadership development. I got the idea of e-leadership from Dr. Naggy Henna, but focus was changed to make leaders at the bottom of the pyramid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Uva Nenasala Network, majority of Nenasala who sustained, did well in the social context first. Actually, I didn’t know anyone with a business plan when started E3. Talakumbura Nenasala serving over 100 children and charged no fee, sustained. Balagolla, Kandewinna and Wekumbura Nenasala continued to exist even without internet, less than Rs 3000/= revenue using volunteer services. Thanamalwila Nenasala ICT scholarship program for poor children, Hingurukaduwa e village innovation, Siyambalanduwa teaching English on Skype, Heeloya providing better seeds for farmers, Mahiyangana developing school drop offs are finest examples of social sustainability. E3 would like to study each of these cases in deep for higher learning of Telecenter sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RIT assignment we were involved in was one of the key strategies of ICTA to improve Nenasala Sustainability. It had a clear goal what the assignment was to achieve. The ICTA RFP said “Nenasala would be able to generate sufficient revenue to ensure its sustainability in the long term". Is a clear statement of state policy on Nenasala sustainability which is looked at a long term impact. Our mission was to create a foundation within assignment period for ensuraing long term Nenasala sustainability, in which we believed that ideas for a foundation for long term sustainability doesn’t come from sky. It has to evolve from the impact community on a collaborative vision. This is where building human networks became most important. As a techie, I have build networks that flow information and communication needed for business, but human networks to sustain Telecenters was a new challenge. E3 found a solution to build human networks among Telecenters, which will serve as the sustainability network for Nenasala.&lt;br /&gt;E3 was the process of building this foundation was layed not actually by us, but Telecenter Operators trained and empowered through&lt;h1&gt;E3&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read how we did it from my next blog in the E3 series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/DojQAVM0JmpKIW-TlCtbrXU2wY5-dlA*1RqsqMs-M437gz7YPQbnyb4RdV870BZZR7vP1crdbFPE*-i4SxrRdaD18WEr0UWr/DSC_1988.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-3092537681098425628?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/3092537681098425628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=3092537681098425628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/3092537681098425628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/3092537681098425628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/07/e3-2-forms-and-faces-of-telecenters.html' title='E3 - 2: The formation of Telecenters Sustainability Networks'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4989960991791619757</id><published>2009-07-28T00:24:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-28T00:27:16.139+05:30</updated><title type='text'>E3: How e-learning, e business and e Leadership Join in for Sustaining Telecenters ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;E3&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;is an idea evolved through Shilpa Sayura Experiences and learned interactions in e-India 2007, followed by GK3 and Stockholm Challenge 2008 which expanded our world of ICT4D. We began to redefine boundaries of our knowledge. Having interacted with Nenasala closely, we found that Telecenters needed something special for long term sustainability. In Sri Lanka many of the Telecenters has taken up ICT literacy development model for sustainability, which is a natural tendency and seems ok when government subsidized the internet access and technical services, however Nenasala have to stand their own, but how?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We began to question ourselves to find out how Telecenters can rise as successful enterprises. How they could be a unique resource in their communities? Talking to farmers, women, youth and professionals, we found that a change in Nenasala model is the need of the hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I could frankly say, visiting DSV and meeting Earl Mardle, Bjorn Peterson, Prasad Jayaweera, Love Ekenberg, Henrick Hanson, Peter Mozellius was a major turning point in E3 idea evolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-2/big/DSC_5749.jpg" width="300" align="left" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-2/big/DSC_6715.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-3/big/DSC_6867.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being in private sector for a long time and e learning experiences from Shilpa Sayura, We thought that Nenasala Telecenters can generate revenue from e learning and e business and provide leadership for social change as a sustainability strategy. Everyone thought it’s a good idea, but where it could be applied to find answers and &lt;b&gt;How E3 could be proved as a hypothesis was a mind blowing challenge&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We had an opportunity to work on our own backyard with ICTA Regional Impact Team Assignment which aimed at sustaining 60 Nenasala Telecenters in Uva Province. E3 was our designed strategy for Telecenter Sustainability. That was how E3 concept for Telecenter Sustainability got realized. Since June 2009, we had been researching E3 to enhance our learning on Telecenter Sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="290" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/ykVvZbocoQzjdOHkPsUp7jXTkBLC8c9h8rtzfZ7vKz8azRIkvjhFUG10cgR8Qnjpu5T7xX6PKbVQWEOBlkLEb*NbHci*8i9f/image009.gif" width="368" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a year we have interesting results, important findings and new questions which we want to share with concerned Telecenter community. We will be presenting E3 in e-India 2009 to initiate a discussion among Telecenter community on E3 and it’s global applicability as &lt;i&gt;an adaptable, replicable framework to sustain Telecenter Networks&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is my first post of a series of blogs which I intend to write to create space for E3 discussion and I hope both my Research paper on E3 and this blog series will complement each other. Still at early stages of learning E3 provides us an insight into future of Telecenter Networks, that cater e-learning, e business and e Leadership to develop a knowledge society.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The E3 idea is simple for anyone to grasp, but the questions in our hand are how we use E3? what tools and methods that will make Telecenters sustain with E3. These questions to be answered from more research and application of what we learn for development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my next blogs I intend to further elaborate on E3 framework and it’s building blocks and how them impact in real ground situations in Telecenter Sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”&lt;br /&gt;-Albert Einstein&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4989960991791619757?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4989960991791619757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4989960991791619757' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4989960991791619757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4989960991791619757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/07/e3-how-e-learning-e-business-and-e.html' title='E3: How e-learning, e business and e Leadership Join in for Sustaining Telecenters ?'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7873592648894898933</id><published>2009-07-22T14:57:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-22T15:02:51.215+05:30</updated><title type='text'>නවගොවියා - ICT 4 Modern Agriculture ප්‍රධාන මං සලකුණක් !</title><content type='html'>නවගොවියා ව්‍යාපෘතියේ එක් ප්‍රධාන මං සලකුණක් තමා නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්, කෘෂිකර්ම ගුරුවරුන් හා දක්‍ෂ ගොවීන් 100 ක් එකතුකර දින හතරක් පුරා පැවැත්වූ e-Agriculture පිළිබඳව දැනුවත් කිරීමේ වැඩමුළුව.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/SjAz2AHcYmLxNfAjsD8nJl4Uth5y9xTEuAYC9jLymldAFrsQRWM5CGfihjGhtwtBuhKkBD0ASByCdcWiKjv-PHLHEHOcF6pb/DSC_8343.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 10px; WIDTH: 600px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/SjAz2AHcYmLxNfAjsD8nJl4Uth5y9xTEuAYC9jLymldAFrsQRWM5CGfihjGhtwtBuhKkBD0ASByCdcWiKjv-PHLHEHOcF6pb/DSC_8343.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ මහාචාර්ය බුද්ධි මාරඹේ ප්‍රමූඛ කෘෂිකර්ම පීඨයේ ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලය තමා තිරසාර හා ආර්ථිකව සපලදායී කෘෂිකර්මය පිළිබඳව නවගොවියා මූලික පාඨමාලාව සැකසූවේ. සිංහල හා දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් නිමාව නැණසළ මගින් ගොවින් වෙත ලඟාවන නවගොවියාගේ අරමුණ සිංහල හා දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් e Learning තුලින් ගොවීන්ට නවීන දැනුම ලබාදීම.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;කාලයක් තිස්සේ මාත් ගොවි තානාපති වසන්ත දුග්ගන්නාරාළත් එක්වී කළ මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය අප හැමට අළුත්ම අත්දැකීමක්. විශේෂයෙන් නැණසළේ තරුණ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ගේ සහයෙන් ග්‍රාමීය කෘෂිකර්මය නංවාලීමටත්, නැණසළ හා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණය ගොවීන් අතර ජනප්‍රිය කරවීමටත් නවගොවියා උදවි වේවි. නුදුරු කාලයේදීම නවගොවියා අන්තර්ජාලයේ නිදහස් වෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නවගොවියා ICTA e-SDI සහයෙන් CIC Agribusiness, efusion, Peradeniya University, Nenasala, Shilpa Sayura සහ තවත් විද්වතුන් එක්කළ ව්‍යාපෘතියක්. ගොවියන් හට විශ්ව විද්‍යාල හරහා නවීන කෘෂිකර්ම දැනුම ලබාදීමෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කෘෂිකර්මය තිරසාර සහ ආර්ථිකව සපලදායී කරවීමට දායක වීම සතුටක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ගොවීන්හට ඉහළම දැනුම ලබාගැනීමට තිබෙන පහසුකම් අඩුයි. වසර පණහක් ගොවිතැන් කළත් ගොවීන්ට පිළිගත් සහතිකයක් නෑ. මාස තුනක "නවීන කෘෂිකර්මය" පිළිබඳ පදනම් පාඨමාලාවක් (Foundation Course) ලෙසින් මෙය සංවර්ධනය කිරීමෙන් ඒ සඳහා මුල්වන්නට අපට පුළුවන්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පාරිසරික සමතුලිත තාවය හා ආහාර සුරක්‍ෂිතභාවය සඳහා තිරසාර කෘෂිකර්මය ඉතා වැදගත්. ඒ සමඟම බලශක්ති අර්බුදයටද නවීන කෘෂිකාර්මික පිළියම් තිබෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජාව යොමුකරවීමද නවගොවියා දීර්ගකාලීන අරමුණක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/K2mAiTU8Ks64XjnqciO1*BNmRCWzfrYtT8aERLzrM3L7B2jBtBJrETemdXHeUds6UgW*GPGRiwCPdc9yaKh-m4bqHaVXCaJI/DSC_8946.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 10px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 600px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/K2mAiTU8Ks64XjnqciO1*BNmRCWzfrYtT8aERLzrM3L7B2jBtBJrETemdXHeUds6UgW*GPGRiwCPdc9yaKh-m4bqHaVXCaJI/DSC_8946.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්පසයුර සහ නවගොවියා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7873592648894898933?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7873592648894898933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7873592648894898933' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7873592648894898933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7873592648894898933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/07/ict-4-modern-agriculture.html' title='නවගොවියා - ICT 4 Modern Agriculture ප්‍රධාන මං සලකුණක් !'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6710272996438246529</id><published>2009-07-22T14:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-22T14:47:37.486+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Navagoviya – e learning for farmers through Telecenters</title><content type='html'>Navagoviya - ICT for Modern Agriculture Project is a Public, Private Community Collaborative in Sri Lanka to develop farmers, providing local language e learning courses in modern Agriculture. The project aims to develop new farmers who would popularize modern farming knowledge in rural communities and encourage sustainable agriculture practices using appropriate technology and practices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/*7hE77RVMTcW*yep8*9u8*kYUgIMwL3Zz0KtigqGPSW4DHhFKWYzBemz6qtEbnbGA0V96ZF08QthtJUe0qxDe3yXw35d90J1/DSC_8353.jpg" alt="" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a Telecenter based e-Agriculture initiative, Navagoviya aimed at developing new breed of farmers who would be motivated to transform traditional farming practices into sustainable agriculture with a greater concern for environment sustainability. Navagoviya implemented by CIC Agribusiness with ICTA e-SDI partnership assistance grant of Rs. 4.5m, partnering with University of Peradeniya, Nenasala Telecenters, e Fusion and Shilpa Sayura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 587 inter connected Nenasala Tele Center Network established in rural communities is a great potential as a Modern Agriculture Knowledge Center. The project has produced electronic content and an e Learning website for farmers to acquire Modern Farming Knowledge in local language. A group of Telecenter Leaders are being trained as e learning facilitators for the first foundation course in Modern Agriculture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/8CdKB9SYvKsq0ci6891QpToFSFqzhZIwvpWXCEyjdk*V0tKKwsk2JsepHsUW9sXdFZ6J6DTNMNyAQUURp1DWdr*-AiNNikLH/DSC_9205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/8CdKB9SYvKsq0ci6891QpToFSFqzhZIwvpWXCEyjdk*V0tKKwsk2JsepHsUW9sXdFZ6J6DTNMNyAQUURp1DWdr*-AiNNikLH/DSC_9205.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking at the workshop held from July 17-20, in Kandy to train Nenasala operators on e-Agriculture, Professor Buddhi Marambe, Dean of Agriculture Faculty, University of Peradeniya said "This course designed as the foundation in modern agriculture with concerns for environment, economy and food security and provide a base for future agriculture education."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Navagovia.org will go live in mid August as one of the most innovative projects implemented in Sri Lanka for modern agriculture development in rural communities" says project director Wasantha Duggannarala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;”This is real good product and opportunity for us to expand Nenasala services to farmers offering e learning in modern agriculture course” Thaminda Balasooriya Nenasala Operator said. Chathuri, A female Nenasala operator from Polonnaruwa said “We can develop female farmers to improve their home gardening with Navagoviya”. All Nenasala operators, Teachers, Farmers took part in the training expressed their deepest satisfaction for the 4 day course on e-Agriculture. They were able to learning something new, exchange knowledge and learn from best Agriculture Experts in the country. It was also an event for bridging gaps and leveling the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rural farmers had constraints accessing modern knowledge and the learned community advice to develop their agriculture practices. Navagoviya provides content, linkages and e learning connecting farmers to highest knowledge sources through Telecenters. It's a development of both ends to share knowledge to develop sustainable farming in Sri Lanka. Navagoviya makes it possible for rural farmers use e learning to develop their farming practices as the content available in Sinhala and Tamil Languages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Designed to suit needs of Farmers, Students, Women and public officials; Navagoviya uses an online platform developed by e fusion to deliver 24 modules course in modern Agriculture. The content is also supplemented by video lectures, field trips and in-farm training, Telecenter based group discussions to adapt learning local needs, an expert panel will assist learners online, therefore go beyond internet only e learning.and most importantly, the vision of Nenasala Telecenters to be a rural knowledge development center, is now becoming true in Sri Lanka with Navagoviya - ICT 4 Modern Agriculture Project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Team Leader&lt;br /&gt;Navagoviya Project&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, July 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Colombo Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.navagoviya.org&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slide Show of Project Activities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed class="xg_slideshow" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/photo/slideshowplayer/slideshowplayer.swf?v=4.6%3A24710" quality="high" bgcolor="#" width="500" height="394" allowscriptaccess="never" scale="noscale" wmode="opaque" flashvars="feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecentre.org%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FslideshowFeedAlbum%3Fid%3D2086278%253AAlbum%253A36272%26x%3Dp5OGDDEnn8zdHD6b1unpYpACYJA4PV5C&amp;amp;autoplay=1&amp;amp;config_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecentre.org%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fx%3Dp5OGDDEnn8zdHD6b1unpYpACYJA4PV5C%26xn_auth%3Dno%26feed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftelecentre.org%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2086278%25253AAlbum%25253A36272%2526x%253Dp5OGDDEnn8zdHD6b1unpYpACYJA4PV5C%26version%3D4.6%253A24710_128_128_87&amp;amp;slideshow_title=&amp;amp;fullsize_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftelecentre.org%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2Fslideshow%3Ffeed_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftelecentre.org%252Fphoto%252Fphoto%252FslideshowFeedAlbum%253Fid%253D2086278%25253AAlbum%25253A36272" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6710272996438246529?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6710272996438246529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6710272996438246529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6710272996438246529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6710272996438246529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/07/navagoviya-e-learning-for-farmers.html' title='Navagoviya – e learning for farmers through Telecenters'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-872143034810852058</id><published>2009-06-26T10:31:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-06-26T11:05:22.674+05:30</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SkRd798FXyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/BTM5qxGT-PE/s1600-h/blogcontest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351505542043229986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 171px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 171px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SkRd798FXyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/BTM5qxGT-PE/s400/blogcontest.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;නැණසළට බ්ලොග් එකක් කියන්නේ මොකද්ද කියා කියාදෙන්න හදපු සිත් සටහන, සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ගැන ලියලා උණුසුම් උනා‍. ගැටුම් අතෑරලා පසුව සීරියස් ලෙස ලිවීමෙන් හුඟක් දේ දැනගත්තා. මේ අනුව මා සිටින නැණසළ (Telecenter)ක්‍ෂේත්‍රය ගැන ලෝක ප්‍රජාව සමග අදහස් හුවමාරු කරගැනීමට blogging හේතු උනා. ලෝකයේ පූමුඛ නැණසළ සංගමයේ Telecentre.org එකේ තිබූ Blogging Contest එකට ලිවිවේ දිනන්නම නෙමේ. Top 10 ඇතුලට ලංකාව ගෙන එන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/the-blog-contest-results"&gt;http://www.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/the-blog-contest-results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ ජයග්‍රහණය වැදගත් මට වඩා ශිල්ප සයුරටයි. එහි නියැලී ඉන්න අයට දිගටම එහි ඉන්න ශක්තිය ම්න් ලැබෙනවා. අපේ රට ලෝකයේ දියූණු රටවල් සමග තරඟ කිරීමේ හැකියාව මින් පෙනීමෙන් තවත් අය උනන්දු වෙනවා. විශේෂයෙන්ම නැණසළ වල ශිල්ප සයුර කරන පොඩි එවුන්, ක්‍රියාකරුවන්. ඒ සමගම සමහර වැහුණු දොරවල් අරින්න මේ ලිපිය හේතු වෙයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එදත් අදත් අපේ ජීවිතේ ප්‍රධානම අංගය අපේ රට. ඒකට අපි තෝරාගත්තේ භාෂාව සහ තාක්‍ෂණය,දැන් අධ්‍යාපනය හා ගම්මාන සංවර්ධනයත් එකතුවෙලා. ශිල්ප සයුර හා නැණසළ දැන් ජීවිතේට බද්ධ වෙලා. ආපහු නගරයට එන්න බැරිතරමට ගම්මාන අපිව වෙලාගෙන. මේ සිත්සටහන ලියවුනේ එහෙමයි. එය ආත්ම ප්‍රකාශණයක් වගේම සාමුහික ක්‍රියාවක සටහනක්. ඒ නිසා අන්තර්ගතය අගය ඉහලයි. මා English භාෂාවේ දන්නා ව්‍යාකරණ හරඹද මීට භාවිතා කලා, (language and Style). ඒ 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href="http://groups.google.com/group/sinhala-bloggers/browse_thread/thread/64eae2c13d693ec2/298a43e62222f2bd?hl=en#298a43e62222f2bd"&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/sinhala-bloggers/browse_thread/thread/64eae2c13d693ec2/298a43e62222f2bd?hl=en#298a43e62222f2bd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සමපූර්ණ විස්තරය&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/group/blogcontest"&gt;http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/group/blogcontest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kaputa.com/"&gt;http://www.kaputa.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-872143034810852058?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SkRd798FXyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/BTM5qxGT-PE/s72-c/blogcontest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7748110989712499263</id><published>2009-06-18T04:01:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-06-18T04:02:34.838+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Technology alone will not bridge knowledge divides</title><content type='html'>Technology alone will not bridge knowledge divides&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNESCO’s concept of knowledge societies&lt;br /&gt;inclusiveness,&lt;br /&gt;pluralism,&lt;br /&gt;equity,&lt;br /&gt;openness&lt;br /&gt;participation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;knowledge societies should not be shaped and driven by technological forces but by societal choices&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concept includes four key principles&lt;br /&gt;freedom of expression&lt;br /&gt;universal access to information and knowledge&lt;br /&gt;respect for cultural and linguistic diversity&lt;br /&gt;quality education for all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;remain valid when the world is going through one of its most serious crises since decades, if not centuries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government leaders increasingly recognize the fact that investments in the large and complex knowledge domains are critical to laying the foundation for recovery, sustainable development, economic growth and prosperity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28757&amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html"&gt;http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28757&amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7748110989712499263?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8613629421665897412</id><published>2009-06-05T21:18:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-06-05T21:24:22.548+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ශිල්ප සයුරේ සාර්ථකත්වය නම් එහි බැඳුනු සහයක ප්‍රජාවයි</title><content type='html'>ශිල්පසයුර වි්‍යාපෘතියේ සාර්ථකත්වය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්පසයුර වි්‍යාපෘති අධ්‍යක්ෂ&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගමිමන මහතා අතුළු,&lt;br /&gt;නැණසල ජාලය වටා  බැදුණු  සියළු මහත්ම මහත්මීන් හට ඉතා සතුටින් දැනුම් දෙමි&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබ තුමන්ලාගේ සියළු මගපෙන්වීම් දැනුවත් කරීම් මතින් එකª සිසුවෙක්වත් නොමැතිව අකී‍්‍රයව වැසීගිය මාගේ නැණසල වන පොළොන්නරුව, මැදිරිගිරිය විජයපුර ශී‍්‍ර ආනන්ද විද්‍යා නිකේතන නැණසල - මාගේ වෑයම හා  උත්සාහය තුළින් කී‍්‍රයාකාරී තත්වයට මාස 1 1/2 ක් වැන් කෙටි කාලයක් තුුළදී සිසුන් 100කට අදික පිරිසක් සමග පරිගණක තාක්ෂණ දැනුම බෙදා දීමට හැකි ශිල්පසයුරක්ම කරගැනීමට හැකි වීම ගැන මම ඉතා සතුටින් හා ආඩම්බරයෙන් දැනුම් දෙමි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අල්ප නැණසල පහසුකම් තුළදී (ආයතනය සතුවන්නේ පරිගණක යන්ත‍්‍ර 4ක් පමණි* ඔබ තුමන්ලාගේ ශිල්පසයුරට  දැක්වූ කැපවීම උනන්දුව ඉතා සාර්ථකයි, ඔබ තුමන්ලාගෙ මගපෙන්වීම් දැනුවත් කරීම් මතින් මා හට ශිල්පසයුරට  ලබාදුන් සිසුන් 100 ඉලක්කයද කිසිම අභියෝගයක් නොමැතිව එම  ඉලක්කය අභිමවා ගොස් අප නැණසලේ ආදායම් තත්වයද ඉහල නන්වා ගැනීමට හැකී වු බව සතුටින් දැනුම් දෙමි’. ඒ තුළින් මාගේ ණැනසල දියුණුතත්වයට ගෙනගොස් හොද සේවාවක් සිසුන්ට ලබා දීමට මා උත්සාහ කරමි මේ සදහා තවද උපදෙස් හා මගපෙන්වීම් ලබා දෙන මෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිමි. සියළු දෙනාහට ස්තූතිය හදපිරි සතුටින් ප‍්‍රකාශ කරමි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙයට&lt;br /&gt;කි‍්‍රශාන්ති ජයලත්&lt;br /&gt;ශී‍්‍ර ආනන්ද විද්‍යා නිකේතන නැණසල&lt;br /&gt;විජයපුර&lt;br /&gt;දියසෙන්පුර&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://shilpasayura.ning.com/profile/KrishanthiJalath&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුරේ සාර්ථකත්වය නම් එහි බැඳුනු සහයක ප්‍රජාවයි.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img 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ප්‍රජාවයි'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4718879999679521956</id><published>2009-05-29T05:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-29T05:31:49.449+05:30</updated><title type='text'>How Shilpa Sayura became a Telecenter Sustainability Tool in Sri Lanka</title><content type='html'>We just finished implementing Shilpa Sayura in 150th Nenasala in Sri Lanka. Thanks to the hard work by many people during last four years; Shilpa Sayura, The Local Language e Learning System, now has become a sustainability tool in Nenasala Telecenters of Sri Lanka. I think it's an e-Sri Lanka, Nenasala, ICTA e-SDI, e fusion as well as a Global Telecenter and ICT4D success to be told again and again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/FlBZGvuShkzrqzypeOIs0TgcDUZT6s-DO*h08aEzwvAbAbQSJlivAWjuX2hU0tzmw*hGpBvsOhBZcNhnPHtkujj7MConRyQp/new2.jpg" alt="" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;First I must reveal the secret of how Shilpa Sayura idea was emerged?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;My children missed my assistance in their school work as I had to work away from my rural home and I was never fond of external tuition as a solution for two reasons;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Tuition fees were too expensive for me.&lt;br /&gt;2. It produces people with less individual skills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2004, My wife Yamuna and I were not happy when our daughter became 33rd in the class. I felt responsible and decided do something. As a web master, I spend lot of time on internet. I started collecting educational information for my children. It simply started working; My children liked the content and began to improve. Soon my collection became over 1 GB; My children called it "ency" and I learned that e content and self learning could be the way forward for children having educational problems.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came the ICTA e-Society Development funding opportunity for innovative ICT4D ideas and solutions. Having come from rural communities, we all knew what it means to have access to "Good education". We decided to focus on the burning problem of education in rural Sri Lanka. By that time we were involved in research and development of local language technologies for community (www.kaputa.com) and for government (www.gov.lk) needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our preliminary research, We learned that in rural Sri Lanka more than 51.8% of children fail in Ordinary Level examination due to lack of teachers and educational resources. Furthermore, communication, transport, energy and poverty were their key challenges in accessing better education. This resulted large number of early school drop-offs; and they were deprived of opportunities in life for better employment and higher education essential to face challenges in the 21st Century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw the opportunity made available with The Nenasala Telecenters set up Island wide by ICTA. Our research on Nenasala found that they were facing a critical sustainability risks due to lack of local content to attract the community. Our team brainstormed days to design Shilpa Sayura. e Learning, National Curriculum, Local Language, Self learning, Telecenters and Sustainability were our prime keywords to make a winning proposal to ICTA. A grant of USD 50,000 was lot of money to make Shilpa Sayura .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We started from scratch as our language problems were unique. We developed a local language e learning software and content. We were inspired by the support we got. We were committed and dynamically changed from what we learned and continuously improved Shilpa Sayura. We can't exactly count the number of stakeholders involved. The small team grew big as we shared the project. The Teachers, professionals, Telecenter operators, parents, students, rural communities, friends, ICTA and many others should be credited for Shilpa Sayura success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our efforts were paid-off. Shilpa Sayura became ICTA e-Society flagship project. During last 3 years, Shilpa Sayura has created thousands of small and big success stories enough to write a book. Shilpa Sayura made Nenasala reach rural children providing a practical solution to their educational problems and developed Telecenter operators to become local, regional and national champions; Finally brought Sri Lanka fame wining several global ICT4D awards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Most importantly, Shilpa Sayura has changed lives of thousands of rural children; It helped them to come up in life and helped sustaining Nenasala; Now Shilpa Sayura expands island wide replicating in 150 Telecenter is making more impact than expected.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Personally, I am also benefited as my daughter Poornima, taking O/L exam this year, has emerged among the best students in the class by improving her average marks to 92.4. It is a measurable Shilpa Sayura impact. So I am well paid off.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Shilpa Sayura has become a tool to make Telecenters sustainable by offering National Curriculum in local language for self and group e learning services. It has become a binding thread to network telecenters. Shilpa Sayura assisted by ICTA, has just begun our new journey to change the Telecenter movement in Sri Lanka. We are not Looking back, It's only future that we think of. There are over 450 more Nenasala Telecenters needing us to reach them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;With the war stopped; The North and East of Sri Lanka are now awakening with new hopes and beliefs. We all have a duty to perform to re-build our Nation by creating an enabling environment for National reconciliation. As our contribution, we have initiated developing the Tamil Version of Shilpa Sayura to empower all communities with the right to learn; and to contribute proactively in Nation building process.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we feel today, Shilpa Sayura has become a tool for Telecenter Sustainability and a common thread of binding the Nenasala Telecenter Network of Sri Lanka. Shilpa Sayura success is blended with its meaning "The Sea of Knowledge"; open, deep, local and shared across the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/FlBZGvuShkxKnhRTq5EXF4hp73xK4IkmhTsMsnPiPwV-MrKyzEr-cRzOECT4lewrcU*AIT3eIvtcQFBckzfAw*oPcli64JO9/DSC_6298.jpg" alt="" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4718879999679521956?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4718879999679521956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4718879999679521956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4718879999679521956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4718879999679521956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-shilpa-sayura-became-telecenter.html' title='How Shilpa Sayura became a Telecenter Sustainability Tool in Sri Lanka'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-687410473362173844</id><published>2009-05-26T00:49:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-26T00:50:05.680+05:30</updated><title type='text'>යුද්ධය</title><content type='html'>මං දැං නිදහස්&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-687410473362173844?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/687410473362173844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=687410473362173844' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/687410473362173844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/687410473362173844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_26.html' title='යුද්ධය'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1273115665265307959</id><published>2009-05-16T20:59:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-16T21:00:59.931+05:30</updated><title type='text'>World Summit Youth Award honors Shilpa Sayura Project</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;World Summit Youth Award honors Shilpa Sayura Project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) 2009 has selected Shilpa Sayura Project from Sri Lanka as Runner-Up in EDUCATION FOR ALL! Category for contributions to reduce poverty, protecting the environment, sharing knowledge, educating and empowering young people addressing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://youthaward.org/?q=node/88"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/WYqHMNnavH0VuBTzBimcTRwEFHTlPT3z*X0o6bxjyM55X0azvCt*EwLs2AO-yYgF9y6XLFMliDFv7pfYgdeGzQqZKKalxodd/wsyawin.png" alt="" height="230" width="400" border=0/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contest evaluated over 600 e-Content projects from online music and TV communities to interactive gaming platforms to e-learning applications and health resources, in a three-round judging process by an international jury of 20 experts in the fields of youth engagement, new media and social entrepreneurship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Shilpa Sayura is an ICTA e-Society Development Initiative, designed and implemented by e fusion pvt ltd in 150 Nenasala Telecenters of Sri Lanka, which won four global awards i4D, GKP, Stockholm Challenge and Diskobolos, is a fine example of local language ICT innovation for the support of the MDGs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WSYA 2009 is organized by United Nations World Summit on the Information Society with Cyber Peace Initiative (CPI), Internet Society (ISOC), UNESCO, GAID, UNIDO and TakingITGlobal (TIG). The contest is promoted in all UN member states, UN Organizations and Agencies and NGOs committed to making a real difference in the achievement of the MDGs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subash Dhanajya Lead Content and Software Engineer of Shilpa Sayura speaking about the achievement says “It’s honor to meet many people like me in Mexico and exhibit Shilpa Sayura to make my country proud”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The WSYA event will be held in September 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico as a follow up activity to the World Summit on Information Society and its action plan towards the year 2015. The finalists and winners in five categories are invited for the networking and skill-sharing between award winners and WSIS delegates to open new doors to the information society. Subash Dhanjaya and Niranjan Meegammana from Shilpa Sayura project expect to take part in WSYA in Mexico in September 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youthaward.org/?q=node/88"&gt;http://youthaward.org/?q=node/88&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.icta.lk/"&gt;http://www.icta.lk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gamini Chamara&lt;br /&gt;Colombo, Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;May 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1273115665265307959?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-3717255326543163593</id><published>2009-05-15T21:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-15T22:10:07.130+05:30</updated><title type='text'>නැණසළ ජාලය රැකගැනීම යනු නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් රැකගැනීමය</title><content type='html'>නැණසළක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ ඉතා සුළු උත්සාහයකි. රජය වෙත කරන ඉල්ලීමක් සැකසීමට ගතවන කාලයට වඩා යමක් එහිදී වැය නොවේ. ඉන් අනතුරුව පහන් දල්වා, බෙර ගසා, ලෝකයම අල්ලට ගෙන කතා පවත්වා ආරම්භ කල නැණසළ කීයක් අද සාර්ථක වී ඇතිද?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සාර්ථක වී ඇති නැණසළ දෙස සිත් යොමා බලන කල අපට වැටහී යන කටුක සත්‍යය කුමක්ද? ඒ නම් ඒවා රැකී ඇත්තේ තම කම්කටොලු පසෙක ලා කැපවීම් කරන තරුණ තරුණියන්ගේ දහදියෙනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඕනෑම ගම්මණ්ඩියක, කඩපිළක, පුදබිමක නැණසළක් විවෘත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය මුදල් පමණි. ඒත් නැණසළක් ගොඩනැගීම පහසු නොවේ. ඒ සඳහා කැපවුනු මිනිසුන් අවශ්‍ය වේ. අද වැසී තිබෙන නැණසළ පවා වරෙක දිරිමත් යෞවනයකු හෝ යෞවනියකගේ ඳායකත්වයෙන් දිදුලන ඒවා වෙති.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img height="334" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/-IhxllNUDKZxbZ-T8qOcrSIPE1BpExDfOiTY1yef1lS4D0kjVcYkN2I5YELnPUpdWcvrLu3RlLJv0NiQe6PrrEW2UKPM9vAi/i14.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එසේ නම් නැණසළක් වැසෙන්නේ ඇයි ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සෑම නැණසළක්ම නිරතුරුවම වැසීමේ හෝ දියුණුවීමේ මගක නියැලී සිටිත්. එයට වඩාත්ම බලපාන්නේ එහි නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ය. වැඩිය සිටින්නේ ක්‍රියාකාරිනියන් වුවද කියාකරුවන් යන නාමයෙන් සැමදෙන ඇමතීම ගැන අමනාප නොවන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළක ස්වේච්චා සේවාවට යෞවනයකු හෝ යෞවනියක එකතු වන්නේ මහත් බලාපොරොත්තු ඇතිවය. යමක් ඉගෙන ගැනීමටත් ඉන් තම දිවිය සාර්ථක කරගැනීම මෙන්ම තම ප්‍රජාවේ දියුණුවට තම හැකියාවන් දායක කිරීමටත් ඔවුන් ඉටාගනිති. බොහෝ මහන්සියෙන් නව දැනුම ලබාගැනීමට දුර ගෙවා පුහුණූ වැඩමුළු වලට යන ඔවුන් එම දැනුම තම ප්‍රජාවට ලබාදෙන්නේ මහත් සතුටකිනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;කුඩා ළමුන් එකිනෙකා එකතු කරගන්නා ඔවුන් එම ළමුන්ට තාක්‍ෂණික දැනුම දැනුම ලබාදෙන්නේ මහත් ආදරයෙනි. අනාගතයේ ඔවුන් ලොකු මහත්වූ කලෙක නැණසළ නොතිබුනත් තමනට තාක්‍ෂණයේ මුල්පොත කී ආදරණීය සොයුරු සොයුරියන් ඔවුන් අමතක නොකරති. ඒ අපට හෝඩිපොත කියාදුන් ගුරුන් අප අමතක කරන්නේ නැතිසේය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකාරීහු ස්වභාවයෙන්ම යමක් උගත් අය වෙති. අපොස උසස් පෙළ සමත් නොවූ අයකු මට හමුවන්නේ කළාතුරකිනි. බොහෝ දෙන උසස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ නියැලී සිටිති. ඒ සඳහා මුදල් දෙන්නේ දෙමාපියන්ය. හමුදා සහ ඇඟලුම් රැකියා වලට යොමුවන ග්‍රාමීය යෞවන යෞවනියන් අතර නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකාරීහු ස්වේච්චා සේවයකට කැපවන්නේ කුමක් උදෙසාද?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;තමන් උපන් රට නැගීමට ඔවුන් සත්‍යයෙන්ම දායකවන්නේ කිසිම දීමනාවකදු නොලබමිනි. සමහරකට දීමනාවක් ලැබෙන මුත් රැකියාවක තිබෙන කිසිදු අයිතිවාසිකමක් ඔවුන් නොපතති. පැය 8 ක සේවය, දින පහක සතිය, අවම වැටුපක්, නිවාඩු, දිරි දීමනා, උත්සව අත්තිකාරම්, නිල ඇඳුම්, විශ්‍රාම වැටුප්, සේවක අර්ථසාධක, භාරකාර අරමුදල්, රක්‍ෂණ, වෛද්‍ය සේවා, ප්‍රවාහන දීමනා තබා පොතක්, පෑනක්, පැන්සලක් තබා අසනීපයකට ඩිස්ප්‍රින් පෙත්තක් හෝ නොඉල්ලන ඔවුන් නැණසළ සමාජ සත්කාරයේ යෙදෙන්නේ නැණසළ ව්‍යාපාරය ගැන තිබෙන ඇල්මෙනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img height="450" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/mqa5RNdD5U08hbXU5bWH5Cx8FZJ4gGG6s8GgALRqv6x9j7ghFy4tL6B3Qj2JwLGBYygLb3wRyJvfU3efw0c3W6MGmPHdU5*N/P1060187.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකාරීන් දහසකට වඩා අප රටේ නැත. එයිනුදු බොහෝ දෙනකු කවුදැයි කියා කවුරුත් දන්නේ නැත. ඔවුන් අතර ජාලයක් නැත. ඔවුන් ගැන සොයා බැලීමට අයෙක් නැත. සමහරු අද එති හෙට අස් වෙති හෝ අනිද්දා අස් කෙරෙති. සමහරු සියලු දුක් දරා රැඳෙති. තම කැපවීමෙන් රට නංවති. අනාගතයට දූ දරුවන් වඩති. ඔවුන්ගේ ගැටළු නම් කවරෙක් දනීද? කවුරුන් ඔවුන් ගැන සොයාද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සමහර නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් නැණසළ දියුණට උපරිම දායකත්වය දුන්නත් අවම වශයෙන් පුහුණු වැඩසටහනකටවත් යාමට අවසර නැත. මේ ප්‍රශ්නය වඩාත්ම ඇත්තේ කාන්තාවන්ටය. ඒ ඔවුන් සියල්ල ඉවසා දරාසිටීමට පුරුදු නිසාමද? සමහරුන්ට පංතියකට යාමට හෝ ඇඳුමක් සෝදාගැනීමට පවා නිවාඩුවක් නැත. රුපියල් 2000 කට වඩා දීමනාවක් කී දෙනෙකුට ගෙවේද? දසදහස් ගනණින් ලාභ ලබන නැණසළක පවා රුපියල් 6000 කට වඩා කීදෙනකුට ලැබෙත්ද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ යනු ස්වේච්චා ව්‍යාපාරයකි. එහි සේවක සේවිකාවෝ නැත. හිඳින්නේ කණ්ඩායමක්. කණ්ඩායමකදී සැවෝම නායකයින්ය. සැවොමගේ අදහස් එකසේ වටී. නැණසළ කණ්ඩායකමක උත්සාහයකි. නැණසළ ජාලයක් ගොඩනැගෙන්නේ එවන් කණ්ඩායම් රැසකිනි. කලාප , දිස්ත්‍රික්ක , පළාත් හා ජාතික නැණසළ නායකයන් බිහිවන්නේ එලෙසය. එම ගොඩනැගුම ඉහළ සිට පහලට නොව පහළ සිට ඉහලට ගොඩනැගෙන නායකත්ව ක්‍රියාවලියකි. එය සැම නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවෙකුටම සම අයිතියක් ඇති සහෝදර ජාලයකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එවන් ජාලයකදී නැණසළවරුන්ට තිබෙන අයිතිය නම් එකම ජාලයක සන්ධීන් වීමය. ජාලයේ ශක්තිය ඔවුන්ය. එසේ එක්වූ ජාලයක ඔවුන්හට හදි කිරීමට,රැකියාවෙන් ඉවත්කිරීමට, කොන්කිරීමට හෝ ඉවත්කිරීමට කාටත් බැරිය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;බිම වැටී තිබූ නැණසළක් ගොඩ ගෙන ආර්ථික සමුර්දියක් ළගාකරන විට දක්‍ෂ ක්‍රියාකරුවා ඉවත්කර වැඩබැරි ගෝලයකු දමා නැණසළ බිමදමන මිනිසුන්ද, සාර්ථක ලෙස නැණසළක් කිරීම නිසා සම්මානයකට බඳුන් වීමේ ඉරිසියාව නිසා ක්‍රියාකරුවා ඉවත්කර ඇණගන්නා මිනිසුන්ද, හොර බොරු නොකිරීම නිසා ක්‍රියාකරුවන් ඉවත්කරන මිනිසුන්ද, වැටුප් ගෙවා වැඩ අරගෙන ඉවත්ව ගිය පසු අළුත් අය ගන්නා මිනිසුන් හා නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ගේ කැපවීම ගැන නොසිතන නමට පමණක් මිනිසුන් වන අය අතරේ නැණසළ කෙසේ පවතීද?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ වසරේ අග නැණසළ වලට තීරණාත්මකය. නැණසළ ජාලයට අරමුදල් හිඟවේ. අන්තර්ජාල පහසුකම් හිඟ වී යා හැකිය. පරිගණක නඩත්තු සේවා හමාර වේ. තාක්‍ෂණ සහය හා පුහුණු හිඟවී යා හැක. ඉතිරිවන්නේ නැණසළ සහ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකාරීන් පමණය. මේ දුශ්කර සමයකට පෙර දැකීමකි. අප ඊට සූදානම්ද? ශිල්ප සයුර ඒ සඳහා සූදානම්ය. ඒ සඳහා නැණසළ සූදානම් කිරීමද අවශ්‍යය. යමක පැවැත්ම අපහසුය. ඩයිනෝසරයෝ වඳවී ගියෝය. කටුස්සෝ රැකුණහ. අමාරු කාලයකදී පවතින්නේ ශක්තිමත් අයය. කාලයට අනුව වෙනස් වන අයය. වෙනස තම පැවත්ම කරගත් අයය. එසේ නම් අප නැණසළ ලෙස ශක්තිමත් වන්නේ කෙසේද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අප දන්නා පරිදි නැණසළ දැනටමත් ශක්තිමත්ය. ඒ මෙතුවක් එය රැකගත් ක්‍රියාකාරීන් නිසාය. ඒ ඇතිද ? අප තරඟකාරීව එකිනෙකා දෙස බැලූ කාලය නිමවේය. සියළු ක්‍රියාකාරීන් එක මගකට පිවිසිය යුතු වන්නේ, කාගේත් පැවත්ම උදෙසාය. අපගේ සම්පත්, දැනුම , හැකියා, සම්බන්ධතා කෙතෙක්ද ? ඒවා එක්රැස් කළහොත් අප කෙතරම් ශක්තිමත්ද ? රටපුරු විසුරුණු තාක්‍ෂණික ජාලයක් අපට හිමිය, එහි ක්‍රියාවලියේ නායකයින් නැණසළ වරුන්ය. එහෙයින් අප කෙතරම් ශක්තිමත්ද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එසේනම් නැණසළ රැකගැනීමට රැකගත යුත්තේ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් නොවේද? නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් නැති තැනක නැණසළක් ක්‍රියාකරවිය හැකිද ? නැණසළ අයිතිය එය රැකගන්නා අයටම නොවේද? නැණසළකට වන හානිය නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ට වන හානියක්. අප රට මහත් ලෝක ණයක් ගෙන ඇතිකළ මේ ජාලය සාර්ථකත්වයට ගෙන යාම කළ හැක්කේ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්හට මිස අන් අයෙකුට නොවේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;වීරෝදාර රණවිරුවන් අප රට රැකගනිද්දී ගම දියුණට පත්කළෝ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ය. ඔවුන් නව චින්තනයකින් හෙබි නව දැක්මක් සහිත අය වෙති. සාමාන්‍ය මිනිසුන් හා නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ගේ අතර වෙනස එයයි. කිසිම නැණසළවරයකුට නැණසළ ජාලය තුල මිස අන්තැනක තැනක් නොලැබේ. ඔවුනට නිසි ඇගයීමක් ලැබෙන්නේ ඒ මගිනි. ඔවුනට සහෝදර ජාලයක් ඇත්තේ නැණසළ තුලය. ඉන් ඉවත් වූවහොත් නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ට අගයක් නැති තරම්ය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සංකල්පය ලෝකයටම අළුත්ය. එහි ගැටළු තිබුණත්, අප රට නැංවීමට එය දායක වූ අයුරු අපට පෙනේ. නැණසළට අනාගතයක් ඇත. ඒ සඳහා නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් ශක්තිමත් විය යුතුය. ඒ උපරිම දැනුම ලබා ගැනීමෙනි. එම් එස් ඔෆිස් වලට එහා තාක්‍ෂණය නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ට අවශ්‍යය. ක්‍රම ලේඛනය, වෙබ් නිර්මාණය, අධි චිත්‍රණ හා ත්‍රිමාණ තාක්‍ෂණය, නිර්මාණ තාක්‍ෂණය, ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික්ස්, ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන මූලධර්ම, ඉහළ කළමණාකරණය, ඉහළ ජාලකරණය, ජංගම තාක්‍ෂණය ආදී දැනුම තවමත් නැණසළට හරිහැටි ලඟාවී නැත. ඒවා ඉගනීමට පහසුකම් සහ සම්පත් අප නැණසළ ජාලය තුළම ඇත. අවශ්‍ය නිසි ලෙස ජාල ගතවීමය. ක්‍රමවේද නිර්මාණය කරගැනීමය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ නිසා නැණසළ රැකගැනීමට රැකගත යුත්තේ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ය. ඒ ආරක්‍ෂාවට නැණසළ වටකර වැටබැඳීමකින් නොවේ. ක්‍රියාකාරීන් අතර නිදහස් අදහස් සහිත විවෘත මානව ජාලයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමෙනි. ඒ තුල කිසිවෙකුත් නොපාගා සැමට සම ශක්තියක් ලැබෙන පරිදි දැනුම ලබා දීමෙනි. නව්‍යමය අදහස්වලට දොර හැරීමෙනි. දැනුම හා තාක්‍ෂණය නැණසළට ගලා ඒමට මනසේ දොර කවුළු විවෘත කිරීමෙනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළක් පැවතීම හෝ නොපැවතීම තීරණය කරන සාධක රැසකි. නැණසළක් වැසීයාමට වගකිවයුතුවන්නේ සමහරුන්ගේ අමනෝඥ තීරණයන් මිස එහි ක්‍රියාකරුවන් නොවේ. නැණසළක් වැසෙන විට තවත් නැණසළක් ආරම්භ විය හැක. ඒ භෞතික උපකරණ හා මුදල් යෙදවීමෙනි. කුමන ගැටළු ආවත් ක්‍රියාකරුවන් නැණසළක් අතනොහරිති. ඒ ඔවුනට අවශ්‍ය නිදහස හා ක්‍රියාත්මක බලය දී ඇති විටකය. ඔවුන් නැණසළෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට කාටවත් අයිතියක් නැත. ඒ නැණසළ ප්‍රජාවට අයිති නිසාය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පුහුණු නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවකු සංවර්ධනයට අවම වශයෙන් අවුරුදු 02ක් වත් ගතවේ. එය සිදුවන්නේද නිසි පුහුණුවක් ලැබුණොත් පමණය. පරිගණක දැනුම තිබෙන හුඟ දෙනෙකුට නැණසළ බැරිය. අඩුම වශයෙන් සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් පවා බැරිය. පරිගණක උපාධියක් තිබුණත් නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරවීම කලාවකි. එය වෙනම වැඩකි. එය අවුරුදු ගණන් කළ හැක්කේ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවකුටමය. ඔවුන් දුසිම් ගණන් නැතිබව දැනෙන්නේ කෙනෙකු හොයන විටය. නැණසළ කිරීම නළලේ කොටා තියෙන හැකියාවකි. නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් අතලොස්සක් වන්නේ ඒ නිසාමය. හැමෝටම නැණසළ කටුව දරාගන්නට හැකියාවක් නැත. ඇණගත් අයට ඉන් ගැලවීමද අපහසුය.&lt;br /&gt;මේ කරුණු සලකා බලන කල නැණසළ ජාලය රැකගැනීම යනු නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් රැකගැනීමය. ඔවුන් රැකගැනීම යනු ඔවුන් ශක්තිමත් ජාලයකට එකතු කිරීමය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ වනවිට නැණසළ ජාලයෙන් ඉවත්වූ නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන් කෙතෙක්ද ? තවත් ඔවුන් නැති කර නොගනිමු. ඔවුන් රැකගන නැණසළ 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type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana Workshop Lecture on Project Planning&lt;br /&gt;Commitment to server starts at your Heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cIgeQN4N16g&amp;amp;hl=" fs="1" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video by&lt;br /&gt;Subash Dhanajaya&lt;br /&gt;Kaputa.com MEDIA TEAM&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7677203615304832807?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7677203615304832807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4273470975872485263</id><published>2009-05-09T04:00:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-10T00:01:20.206+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sustaining Telecenters : Are we on right track ?</title><content type='html'>Sustaining Telecenters : Are we on right track ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/96jOMOcVvn90an3yM-fZs3gV57fZUPSQftS6TpcjzyQ2ONzsYXou8vdDRXttm6UPHkUFdo*7iyDojCMBg6H-MABENCKGyqt8/conflictresolution.gif" alt="" height="300"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been asking this question from my team mates for several months again and again as We had been working on following M &amp;amp; E strategies to help sustain 60 Nenasala Telecenters in Uva province.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Capacity Building&lt;br /&gt;2. Technical Support&lt;br /&gt;3. Content &amp;amp; Services Deployment&lt;br /&gt;4. Evaluation and Advocacy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These strategies deployment were based on a needs assessment done by us. We were confined to available resources within our access to build a Telecenter network; It required study of Telecenter behaviors to design appropriate strategies aiming a social change within Telecenters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenter research find lack of knowledge, lack of resources, and lack marketing as common issues of sustainability. However, we haven't really researched and discussed how human behavioral issues effect Telecenter sustainability which are wide open for research. We need discussion centered around the social change within Telecenter Echo System. This paradigm Includes culture and values of those who serve, mange, develop, operate and use Telecenters).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In a social change for sustainability scenario we are challenged with people, cultures, processes, communications, and personal behaviors more than infrastructure and resource issues. Solutions we offer requires behavior modification of people, initiate dialog, innovative communications, collaborative strategies, learning from mistakes and collaborative efforts in making and executing top to bottom Telecenter decisions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Planners aim their strategies to achive 80% - 100% desired results; but ground conditions are quite varied, especially in telecenter organization and culture. When 60 Uva Telecenters are considered, it's hard to find two Telecenters alike; one of the biggest obstacles a Telecenter developers like us face is creating a common ground for a Telecenter network to evolve. A telecenter network is a living network only if members take part in the network; It is not enough to have members in the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you read books of peter drucker, the master of management, you will find a Telecenter Network is similar to a large loosely bound distributed organization with many entities, which are independent and unique nodes. Our challange is to create interdependency, synergy, proactivity. This requires change in overall telecenter management phylosophy from "Boss" centered thinking to team player to unleash talents in the network through inspirational motivation comes from inside of each self motivated team member.&lt;br /&gt;To achive this we need to solve horizontal and vertical conflicts in the Network. Thesee conflicts are not problems, but can become problems if not properly managed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Horizontal conflicts are conflicts between Telecenters, related to organization culture as well as economy related competition, personality clashes; zonal and regional leaderhip dilemmas; technology and resource differences of telecenters.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vertical conflicts are issues related to hierarchy of management and leadership links to sharing of power and delegation, varied knowledge levels, financial benefits and opportunities and gender empowerment.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The critical issues faced by Telecenter Networks are mainly two types.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Telecenter Specific Issues&lt;br /&gt;2. Network wide issues&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Telecenter Network developer has to tackle these issues as none can be left a side on inclusion theory. E3 is the framework we use for Telecenter sustainability to find solutions for these issues which are established on a cultural footing, open communications, MSPs and sustainable development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we jump guns into solutions; we try to understand underlying causes of issues which are in our fundamentals. The learning we make is based on stumulas and responses after interacting with grass roots. The interpretations of real world situations are quite different to imaginary judgments made from thousand miles away from the scenario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Telecenter Specific Issues are more concerned with their daily survival and mainly two types.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Internal Issues&lt;br /&gt;2. External Issue&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;b&gt;Internal Issues&lt;/b&gt; are horizontal and vertical in form. In Telecenters services, technology and finances managed by multiple leaders, horizontal conflicts can exist. Horizontal issues are less likely in Telecenters run on a pyramid like a hierarchy with a single leader and followers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The vertical conflicts&lt;/b&gt; contribute more to critical issues of Telecenter sustainability. Vertical conflicts exist in sharing of power and delegation, unbalanced knowledge transfer, financial benefits and opportunities, gender empowerment effecting Telecenters performance and growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Internal issues&lt;/i&gt; can cause a good staff member or a volunteer to suddenly leave the Telecenter, then start acting as an external threat effecting operations. Some Telecenters managers don't allow subordinates to take part in telecenter gatherings, which are important to build relationships for the network; There are instances of staff being not allowed to take part in worshop even conducted in house. In another case a national recognition and honor causes an operator to loose the job. The non formal structure of Telecenters keeps the power at the top rather than delegated to bottom of the pyramid. This clearly constrains collaborative team efforts , synergy to develop champions lead the network for sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. External Issues&lt;/b&gt; are related to day to day interactions with external entities like Service Providers, Policy Makers, Donors, Customers, Suppliers and Partners and peer Telecenters. The issues are mainly resources or policy related. A service provider not honoring the service agreements or not attending to a motherboard replacement under warranty, or doesn’t restore a down internet connection quickly, could make lot of trouble for a Telecenter to maintain it's programs. A donor who does not keep a promised milestone payment, a partner dropping a telecenter, a customer defaulting a payment or an M &amp;amp; E officer faultily reporting Telecenter performance can make Telecenters de-motivate and make disbelief on the movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Issues from peer Telecenters are acting to damage the image of a fellow Telecenters for business; encroaching fellow home markets, trying to grab customers introduced on a supportive visiting lecture are moral issues questioning telecenter ethics. Our challenge is to make Telecenters co-operate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are some case examples we have experienced which require consideration in deploying our strategies and it's important that we incorporate human behavioral issues in to our research to develop sustainable Telecenter networks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Network wide issues are again internal and external to the network needing extra focus in managerial, policy and social contexts needing innovative answers, adequate time and may need changes in structure and modifications in our fundamental beliefs. It may be time for us to focus on ground zero to understand real issues and answers that will solve issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;My question still remain as &lt;big&gt;“Are we on right track ?“&lt;/big&gt; for sustaining Telecenters.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/Bo-P8H3*kpjUK11fgfk7iFhO2RdZX8TbUXsB4cp0xiJrIlixIIAMqt7X3nhADk*eq57T7wlIGfLRtirZth5UdkWAeidBlm*U/footstepsonrippledsand.jpg" alt="" height="400"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Sri Lanka Telecenter Community&lt;br /&gt;http://telecenter.ning.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4273470975872485263?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4273470975872485263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4273470975872485263' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4273470975872485263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4273470975872485263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/05/sustaining-telecenters-are-we-on-right.html' title='Sustaining Telecenters : Are we on right track ?'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7276135694421405522</id><published>2009-05-02T21:09:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-02T21:14:49.831+05:30</updated><title type='text'>නැණසළ ක්‍ෂේත්‍රය දියුණූ වීමට පර්යේෂණාත්මක කටයුතු</title><content type='html'>Impact Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍ෂේත්‍රය දියුණූ වීමට විද්වතුන් එහි සහභාගීවීම සහ පර්යේෂණාත්මක කටයුතුවල‍ නියැලීමත් එමගින් සොයාගන්නා සහ උගන්නා දේ අන් අය සමග හුවමාරු කරගැනීමත් අවශ්‍යයි. එය විද්‍යානූකූල ලෙස කිරීමට පර්යේෂණ පත්‍ර පළකිරීම ක්‍රමවේදයයි. ලෝකයේ දියුණුවන සෑම ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයකම මෙය සිදුවෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එමනිසා අප එදිනෙදා කරන RIT සේවාවේ කටයුතු විද්‍යාත්මක මුහුණුවරකින් බලා M &amp; E (නියාමනය හා ඇගයීම) මගින් තිරසාර නැණසළ ජාල සංවර්ධනය කිරීම ගැන සංවර්ධන ප්‍රතිඵල සඳහා ඇගයීම් ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණයට මා ඉදිරිපත් කල මේ දැක්ම ඔබ සමග බෙදාහදා ගන්නේ දැනුම හුවමාරුවටයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impact Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/6C14B57863848D44&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/6C14B57863848D44&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="never"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ එම පර්යේෂණ පත්‍රිකාවේ සාරාංශයයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impact Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for&lt;br /&gt;Developing of Sustainable Tele Center Networks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana and Rasika Sampath&lt;br /&gt;Sri Lanka Telecenter Community&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;/strong&gt;E3 Telecenter Network M &amp; E process assisted improving sustainability of Nenasala Telecenter Network in Uva province, Sri Lanka. E3 Telecenter Sustainability Network (TSN) model finds issues that risk sustainability, and assess improvements resulted from capacity building. E3 findings initiated communications for Network Actions for Telecenters, zonal, district and provincial Networks for Regional Impact Team (RIT), ICTA and service providers to address Telecenter issues needing technical support, deployment of content &amp; services, capacity building, training and advocacy. E3 model provided indicators on Telecenter sustainability, effectiveness of strategies and recommendations for program and policy changes that improved sustainability of the Uva Nenasala Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 9 month M &amp; E periodically assessed Telecenters on Network participation, availability of services, service quality and served quantity for evaluation of changes in performance to determine the direction of Telecenters towards the goal of sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indicators for the monitoring derived using the same Network as a learning model to develop E 3 Telecenter ranking system defined as Sustainability Index (SI), to evaluate each Telecenter, zone, distinct, province and cluster Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;M &amp; E findings led RIT actions to improve Telecenter capacity with knowledge, content, leadership skills, community involvement, networking, promotion, advocacy and technical support to improve their performance towards sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;M &amp; E process resulted improvement of Uva Nenasala Network sustainability from 28% in June 2008 to 45% by February 2009 including continuing performance improvements by 80% of the Nenasala. The feedback from community, increased Nenasala and Network activities, improved Nenasala usage and earned revenue, local, regional, national and international advancements made by Nenasala operators are further evidences of the impact of E3 M &amp; E process and also demonstrates the effectiveness of the E3 approach for developing Telecenter Network sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conclusions made are that M &amp; E is a key activity in improving sustainability of Telecenter Networks, require integration of needs assessment capacity building, content and support. ICT training, local content &amp; E Learning, internet access, EVS and value added services are key services to sustain Nenasala. Sustaining Telecenters require Network strategies with shared purpose, community involvement and leadership to ensure required knowledge and resources available. Network participation, availability of services, service quality, local content, and quantity of people served impact Telecenter sustainability. E3 M &amp; E model can effectively be used to develop sustainability of Telecenter Networks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7276135694421405522?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7276135694421405522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7276135694421405522' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7276135694421405522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7276135694421405522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title='නැණසළ ක්‍ෂේත්‍රය දියුණූ වීමට පර්යේෂණාත්මක කටයුතු'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-3918184133722734312</id><published>2009-03-09T02:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-09T02:20:58.452+05:30</updated><title type='text'>CASE STUDY : E3 Telecenter Network Communication Platform</title><content type='html'>Location : Uva Province Telecenter Network, Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;Time : June 2008 to January 2009&lt;br /&gt;By : Uva Regional Impact Team/ Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;What : The approach and key strategies used to establish and ensure network communications to improve sustainability of the Uva Province Telecenter Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Introduction&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 Network communication platform is a virtual communication infrastructure connecting Telecenter actors in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, expands Telecenter eco system involving users and supporting groups, a living digital organism to create and deliver messages among many to many linked network nodes, initiating network action for M &amp;amp; E, capacity building, Technical support, content and services, knowledge sharing, reporting and advocacy needs to develop Telecenter Network sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/kNm-pIBIXPxR3cLqBfORq2Ws-7F9LhVJob6SKnCn*wqzrwiZErk-anwtDOj71v*c2idHD*GbQFq7IIRXSaV9D8bMJMuy8hlG/e3net.jpg" alt="" width="482" height="299"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 connects key stakeholders direct or by way of indirect links and digital representation, keeps expanding and adding new actors, links to participative networks, change constantly, improves and re-shapes it self with new tools, content facilitated by Regional Impact Team (RIT).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In June 2008 on an assignment from ICTA, Project E3 initiated to help sustain 60 Telecenters in Uva province, Sri Lanka. The M &amp;amp; E found that lack of communication platform is one of the key issues challenging Telecenter sustainability. RIT first priority was to establish a strong communication network for enabling RIT to Telecenter, Telecenter to Telecenter, Telecenter to community, Telecenter to ICTA and Telecenter to Service Provider and vise versa and also needed linking with global ICT4D actors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest challenge was to establish a communications platform among 60 Telecenters when only 52% had access to internet. After 9 months of Network development, Uva Province Telecenter Network has emerged improving network sustainability as a result of E3 Telecenter network communication and development strategies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Methods&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICT literacy should not be a barrier for initiating network communications started with letters to connect all Telecenters to RIT. assessed their needs using pocket workshops, discussed problems and found feasible solutions establishing the first form of contact. RIT developed a set of network communication strategies, protocols, formats for messages delivery and feedback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 regional think tank involved Telecenter Operators initiating discussions and knowledge sharing for network strategy formulation which also helped inter Telecenter networking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Different skill levels in communication required training on online communications, local language tools and training content. Use of local language in emails, forums, blogs, skype, ning social networks and online publishing of activity photos, feedback videos helped attracting Telecenter Community to the emerging tools that were part of strategic communications platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use of effective tools and communication channels helped networking Telecenters, ICTA, Service providers, supporting actors which helped increasing sustainability activities in the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura like content helped Telecenters to establish relationships with their communities, training content improved Telecenter operation and created an online learning and knowledge share community in the E3 Telecenter network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The continues local capacity building workshops helped improving inter actor communications, knowledge and resources sharing. Online advocacy motivated Uva Telecenter network to emerge as an E3 Telecenter Sustainability Network, receiving national and global ICT4D and Research attention for sustainability development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lessons learned&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effective network communication is essential for Telecenter sustainability, requires bottom up development and use of local languages, openness and effective communication tools. Involvement of network actors required to ensure a sense of ownership of the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Network messages require consideration of the appropriation of content, format and delivery methods. Postal mail is a useful as a network messaging strategy to involve non ICT literate network actors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chat, Skype conferencing, Mailing lists, online groups, ning like social networks, and blogs help initiating network actions and also effective in developing network communications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open communications help motivating small players to play big roles in the network. Informal communications are useful assessing effectiveness of network programs, help generating new ideas and online publishing of network activities and Telecenter experiences help share knowledge in the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continues Telecenter training, knowledge sharing and PR events facilitation in local networks is essential to create an enabling environment for effective network communications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Future challenge of Uva Telecenter network is to continuously maintain the E3 Network emergence ensuring using of effective network communication strategies and tools leading to network sustainability, requires a process to form the virtual E3 Uva Telecenter network to a more formidable entity to binding all actors in the E3 Telecenter Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;Uva RIT Services Team Leader&lt;br /&gt;Project E3 - Shilpa Sayura Foundation&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-3918184133722734312?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/3918184133722734312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=3918184133722734312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/3918184133722734312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/3918184133722734312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/03/case-study-e3-telecenter-network.html' title='CASE STUDY : E3 Telecenter Network Communication Platform'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4719845880923787556</id><published>2009-03-03T00:12:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T00:12:49.014+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Project E3 : Determining Telecenter network objectives</title><content type='html'>Determining network objectives is the firstmost acativity to develop a Telecenter Network, require considering the needs of different Telecenters participating in the network. in Project E3 We did it through a needs assesment followed by a network think tank workshop of the telecenter community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The needs assesment captured telecenter issues, needs and opportunities of each telecenter and the network. At the think tank workshop the findings were presented to telecenters and a strategies that were developped to develop the telecenter sustainability, indicated the value of the network to achive the what is planned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The network objectives were defined to cater achivement of Telecenter sustainability. Additional objectives were added following national needs, government policy, global trends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore the network ojectives need to adjectidress four key areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Objectives for Sustainability development of Network members&lt;br /&gt;Capacity building , training, resources and prohects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Objectives set by Regional, National, community needs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Objectives set by Regional, National, Government policy&lt;br /&gt;Sri Lanka targets 50% ICT Literacy by 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Global Telecenter Movement Trends&lt;br /&gt;Participation, Contribution , Networking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Network specific objectives determined by Network members&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Establishing Network objectives require maximum participation, adequate discussion and endosement by partcipating telecenters as they will be the guiding principals of the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Network objectives require transformation them to network strategies, that will lead the Network. Sustainability, Inclusion, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4719845880923787556?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4719845880923787556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4719845880923787556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4719845880923787556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4719845880923787556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/03/project-e3-determining-telecenter.html' title='Project E3 : Determining Telecenter network objectives'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-9020719788881669066</id><published>2009-02-26T00:00:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-26T00:11:09.589+05:30</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/FM0VC7z0FHs2QkUy7QKhTZRKvkqAQnOZKdG3VAl6vLMMqIAHtTo8iGUinifV4dHL8LvAu4BoO-0n2frEvvpODr3hLgl2fhVO/tca.jpg?crop=1%3A1" align="left" /&gt;Telecenter Networks form by bringing in Telecenters owned by individual entities from a diverse geography communities. The common thread bind them is similar issues, shared future vision and nereaed benefit from the network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Network managers do not have a strong hold on the control of the network members who act independent. One example is getting them all of them to attend a workshop, provide performance data in a standard format.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It could be done creating a sense of ownership as a practice to ensure that the network developped has adequate representation, local ownership and wide inclusion including representation in the governence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important that each member of the network made aware of What would be the give and takes for the members and for the networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenter Networks are aimed to self sustain. Nenasala in Sri Lanka has government support, ICTA provides initial equipment and training, connectivity, M &amp;amp; E. Private sector and Non profits involved in support, capacity building and M &amp;amp; E. With in the large 577 member network has key geographic groups and socio-economic groups like TCF acnd Shilpa, and E3 Nenasala Network in Uva. Some Members join multiple networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Role of Nenasala Network management is shared by diffent process for connectivity, Evaluation, communication at ICTA level and in the field by M &amp;amp; E Regional Impact Team.&lt;br /&gt;It is the M &amp;amp; E process that bring Telecenter Members together to create an enabling environment for learning, networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to self sustain the network the members need to involve in management process of the network. ICT appointing District ICT Ambassadors at Nenasala convention is an example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telecenter Networks that aimed to self sustain may be initiated through funding, yet need to create revenue from its members. Formation of TCF in Sri Lanka is an example.&lt;br /&gt;Social Networking and inter member relationships are an inessential human aspect of a telecenter network, which usually exsist in district and provincial as well as cross networks with similar interests. Uva Nenasala community, Shilpa Sayura, EVS group, Denuma Group are some examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing a Telecenter Network for sustainability requires a framework that will create a new social model , learning from the findings and improving the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E3 is a research framework design to create a Telecenter Sustainability Network based on research carried out by Shilpa Sayura Project and Nenasala community. Like Shilpa Sayura we want to make E3 a Global Example for Telecenter Network Sustainability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Project E 3 aims a social innovation in Telecenter Network sustainability creating a new sustainability model for sustaining Telecenters through learning enterprunership and leadership built on the key underlining principa;s of ICT4D, K4D and MGDs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SaWQFbZyciI/AAAAAAAAAHg/a0eQbyHvafQ/s1600-h/concept.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306806158855664162" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SaWQFbZyciI/AAAAAAAAAHg/a0eQbyHvafQ/s400/concept.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;http://telecenter.ning.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-9020719788881669066?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/9020719788881669066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=9020719788881669066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/9020719788881669066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/9020719788881669066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/02/t-elecenter-networks-form-by-bringing.html' title=''/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SaWQFbZyciI/AAAAAAAAAHg/a0eQbyHvafQ/s72-c/concept.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-6020892730148143415</id><published>2009-02-25T20:52:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-25T21:01:37.783+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Rural school education in the world and Gender</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Rural school education in the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children in rural areas continue to be deprived of quality education owing to factors like lack of competent and committed teachers, lack of textbooks or teaching-learning materials etc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This require creating a new platform to policy analysts, administrators, researchers and practitioners to analyse the current scenario in rural education, identify problems and come up with recommendations to improve the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The programme should aim to bridge gender and social gaps in education,,working in the field of women empowerment through education, aims to promote 'skill-development' and 'entrepreurial skills' to make women self-reliant. Getting women not into imparting skills like sewing or tailoring. Instead, impart skills like plumbing, repairing and so on to break gender stereotypes and empower girls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-3/big/DSC_6855.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-3/big/DSC_6855.jpg" border="0" width="500"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6020892730148143415?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6020892730148143415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=6020892730148143415' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6020892730148143415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/6020892730148143415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/02/rural-school-education-in-world-and.html' title='Rural school education in the world and Gender'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4229769087180799623</id><published>2009-02-19T23:10:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-22T23:02:28.227+05:30</updated><title type='text'>E3 ආදර්ශ නැණසළ වැඩ සටහන</title><content type='html'>RIT සේවාව සමග ඌව පළාත් නෑණසළ ලබා ඇති ප්‍රගතිය&lt;br /&gt;සලකා බලා 2009 නොවැම්බර් මස අවසානය වන වන ව්ට සෑම නැණසළකටම ICTA සහය නොමැතිව ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමට ඇති හැකියාව ලබාගැනීම අදහස් කෙරේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ලබාගත යුතු ආර්ථික මට්ටම&lt;br /&gt;1. අන්තර්ජාල ගාස්තු ගෙවීම&lt;br /&gt;2. වැටුප් ගෙවීම&lt;br /&gt;3. වියදම් පියවා ගැනීම&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ලබාගත යුතු සමාජමය මට්ටම&lt;br /&gt;1. බුද්ධි මණ්ඩලයක් තිබීම&lt;br /&gt;2. ප්‍රජා සමාජයක් පිහිටුවා තිබීම&lt;br /&gt;3. කලාප හා පළාත් නැණසළ ජාලයේ සහභාගීත්වය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ලබාගත යුතු තාක්‍ෂණික මට්ටම&lt;br /&gt;1. අන්තර්ජාල සන්නිවේදනය සහ පළකිරීම&lt;br /&gt;2. තමන්ගේ උපකරණ තමාම අළුත්වැඩියාව&lt;br /&gt;3. ඔෆිස්, ග්‍රැපික්ස්, ඕඩියෝ වීඩියෝ, ජාලකරණය, ආරක්‍ෂාව&lt;br /&gt;4. වෙබ් ඩිසයින්, නිං, බ්ලොගිං&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ව්ශේෂ සේවා&lt;br /&gt;1. ශිල්ප සයුර&lt;br /&gt;2. ඉ බ්ට්&lt;br /&gt;3. ICDL&lt;br /&gt;4. රාජ්‍ය සේවා තොරතුරු&lt;br /&gt;5. ව්‍යාපාර සේවා&lt;br /&gt;6. ජංගම දුරකතන සේවා&lt;br /&gt;7. සෞඛ්‍ය , කෘෂි, කර්මාන්ත තොරතුරු සේවා&lt;br /&gt;8. චිත්‍රණ සහ මුද්‍රණ සේවා&lt;br /&gt;8. වෙබ් අඩවි සේවා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;විශේෂ හැකියා&lt;br /&gt;ව්‍යාපාර සැලසුම්, ව්‍යාපෘති නිර්මාණය, ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධනය, සමාජීය ප්‍රචරණ, ආධාර මූලාශ්‍ර, ඉංග්‍රීසි සහ සන්නිවේදනය, රාජ්‍ය සම්බන්ධතා ආදිය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සෑම දෙයක්ම ඔබ කළ හැකියි. සමිපත් හිඟ අය අනිකුත් නැණසළ සමග එකතුවී හෝ වැඩ කල හැකියි. මෙහිදී ජාලයක් ලෙස එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීම වැදගත්ය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ තත්වය ලඟාකරගැනීමට ඔබට සහය වීම අපගේ කාර්යයි. ඒ සඳහා අප විවිධ ක්‍රමවේද අනිගමනය කරන අතර "E3 ආදර්ශ නැණසළ" ලෙස යම් ඌව නැණසළ දියුණු කිරීමට අදහස් කරනවා. එම සෑම නැණසළකටම නොවැම්බර් මස අවසානයේ සිට නව වැඩපිළිවෙක් සමග ඉදිරියට යාමට හැකියාව ලබනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ ඉලක්ක සඳහා යාමට ඔබට නෑණසළ ව්‍යාපාරික සැලැස්මක් අවශ්‍ය වෙනවා. අලුත් දේ ඉගන ගන්න වෙනවා. තම කලාපය සහ නැණසළ ජාලය වෙනුවෙන් වැඩකරන්න වෙනවා. නැණසළ දියුණු කරන්න වෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සන්න්වේදනය එහි ප්‍රධානම අංශය බව සලකන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4229769087180799623?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4229769087180799623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4229769087180799623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4229769087180799623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4229769087180799623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2009/02/e3.html' title='E3 ආදර්ශ නැණසළ වැඩ සටහන'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-850045190602795693</id><published>2009-02-18T21:30:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-18T21:33:40.923+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Rock Band Sing e - Sri Lanka : Unokuuged</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://api.ning.com/files/bxBQXz5Ppr2p2D4mOhGOVnYnueD5cB0gIM1ow8NjbRowUENBHCToF-C5M8qmaGsoBvqqiUX6femzzAQjsDxazKnxZ7m-sDbN/nadeeka.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Sihinayak” (‘a dream’) – a bouquet of lyrics and an ecstasy of entertainment by Sri Lankan contemporary musicians Nadeeka, Kasun &amp;amp; Chapa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over to all music lovers! Enjoy the website in whatever part of the world you may be and for those who can make it the CD bouquet of lyrics “Sihinayak” (‘A dream’) - a taste of rare entertainment is available on 23 rd February - BMICH to visit and enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E Sri Lanka Theme Song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CASqsPUukLk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CASqsPUukLk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rock Me Nenasala ,,,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Sihinayak” (‘a dream’) the first anthology of brilliant new generation composer Nadeeka Jayawardhana together with Kasun Kalhara &amp;amp; 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ලක්‍ෂණ පවතී,එහෙත් ව්‍යුහමය ලෙස සැදී නොමැත. නැණසළ සංවර්ධනයට යෝජනා කරන ව්‍යුහයක් පහත දැක්වේ. එය බොහෝ නැණසළ වලට ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ හැකු ක්‍රම වේදයකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://telecenter.lk/photos/e3-2/big/DSC_6295.jpg" width=500/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළක වැදගත්ම අංශ 3 කි&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සේවා, මුදල්, ප්‍රචාරකය&lt;br /&gt;මේ අංශ තිදෙනකුට හෝ තනියම හෝ කරන්න පුළුවන්&lt;br /&gt;එක් එක් අංශයේ අය තම අංශය කළමණාකරනය කරන අතර එහි දියුණුවට පොදු සහ පෞද්ගලික කාලයක් වෙන් කළ යුතුයි. සෑම සතියක් වෙන්කල දිනක මෙම අංශ රැස්විය යුතුය. රැස්වීම් කාලය පැයයි. පසුගිය සතියේ ගත් තීරණවල ප්‍රගතිය එකිනෙකා ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම, මුදල් , සේවා හා ප්‍රචාරණ තත්වය විමසීම, ව්‍යාපෘති ප්‍රගතිය, නව අදහස් තමා න්‍යාය පත්‍රය. නැණසළ දියුණුවන විට පැයක් මදිවේවි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ එක් එක් අංශ වල පරමාර්ථ නම්&lt;br /&gt;මුදල් - නිසි ගිණුම්කරණය, ගෙවීම්, අයකිරීම්, මිල ගණ න්, ඇස්තමණ්තු, ව්‍යාපෘති අධීක්‍ෂණය, මුදල් වාර්ථා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සේවා&lt;br /&gt;තාක්‍ෂණය ලබාගැනීම, තාක්‍ෂණික නඩත්තුව, සේවා ලබාගැනීම, සේවා සැපයීම, තත්වය උසස කිරීම, ව්‍යාපෘති ව්‍යාපෘති සැලසුම් සහ මෙහෙයුම, පාරිභෝගික හා ආදායක සේවා, පර්යේෂණ සහ දත්ත,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ප්‍රචාරණ&lt;br /&gt;සන්නිවේදනය, ප්‍රචාරක කටයුතු, උත්සව සැලසුම හා නියෝජනය, වැඩමුලු,ප්‍රජා සම්බනිධතා, ව්‍යාපෘති ප්‍රචාරණය, ආධාර, වෙබ් අඩවිය, සමාජ ප්‍රචාරණය, අරමුදල් සඳහා ප්‍රචාරණය, සම්බන්ධතා ගොඩනැගීම, සංග්‍රහ සහ අනුග්‍රාහකත්වය, ලේඛන කටයුතු&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සඳහා තිදෙනකුගේ නායකත්වය තිබීම අවශ්‍ය අතර, තම තමන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතා පරිදි නැණසළේ ස්වේච්චාවෙන් එන අයද මේ සඳහා එකතු කරගත හැක. තීරණ ගැනීමේදී නැණසළට වඩාත් ආර්ථිකව වාසිදායකභාවය මෙන්ම සමාජ සංවර්ධනය අරභයාද තීරණ ගැනීම සුදුසුය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙහිදී සහභාගී වන සෑම අයකුට සේවා භාවිතා ප්‍රතිලාභද, ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිලාභ මෙන්ම සමාජීය ප්‍රතිලාභ ලැබීම සුදුසුය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සේවා භාවිතා ප්‍රතිලාභ&lt;br /&gt;අර්ධ අයකිරීම් සේවා&lt;br /&gt;නොමිලේ ලබාදෙන සේවා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සමාජීය ප්‍රතිලාභ&lt;br /&gt;අධ්‍යාපනය&lt;br /&gt;පුහුණුව&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දැනුම හුවමාරුව&lt;br /&gt;පෞද්ගලික සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;සමූහයක සහභාගීත්වය&lt;br /&gt;නෑණසළ නියෝජනය&lt;br /&gt;සම්බන්ධතා ගොඩනැගීම&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිලාභ&lt;br /&gt;මුදල් ඉතිරිය&lt;br /&gt;අධ්‍යාපන අවස්ථා&lt;br /&gt;පුහුණු අවස්ථා&lt;br /&gt;රැකියා අවස්ථා&lt;br /&gt;වියදම් සහ දීමනා&lt;br /&gt;වැටුප්&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙවැනි කළමණාකරන ආකෘතියක් යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක නැණසළක සමාජ ව්‍යාපාරයක මූලික ලක්‍ෂණ නිර්මාණය වේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එහි වාසි වන්නේ&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ තිරසාර භාවයට පත්කරිම සාමුහික වගකීමක් බවට පත්වීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ තිරසාර භාවයට පත්කරිමට වැඩ සැලැසමක් නිර්මාණය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළේ පරිපාලනය ක්‍රමාණුකූල වීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළේ ගැටළු හදූනාගැනීම සහ පිළියම් යෙදීමට පහසුවීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළේ ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය දියුණුවීම&lt;br /&gt;සේවා තත්වය දියුණු වීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ කටයුවල‍ ප්‍රජා සහභාග්ත්වය වැඩ්වීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරු කණ්ඩායමේ සුහදතාවය වර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සමාජය තුල ප්‍රචාරණය වීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළට ආධාර ලබාගැනීමට ඇති හැකියාව වර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරු හැකියා සහ දැනුම වරිධනය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සම්බන්ධතා වර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළේ සේවා තත්වය වර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළට වැඩි ආදායමක් ලැබීම&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ට ප්‍රතිලාභ වැඩිවීම&lt;br /&gt;සමාජයට නැණසළේ වටිනාකම වැඩිවීම&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙලිසින් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ආද්ශ නැණසළක් වී ඔබටම වෙනස වටහා ගත හැකිය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගමිමන&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර ව්‍යාපෘතිය&lt;br /&gt;Uva RIT Team Leader&lt;br /&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;br /&gt;http://telecenter.ning.com&lt;br /&gt;http://telecentre.org&lt;br /&gt;http://nenasala.ning.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6373345686136913727?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6373345686136913727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' 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type='text'>61 වන නිදහස් දිනයේ ප්‍රථමාරම්භය</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://dinamina.lk/2009/02/05/National-flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" alt="" src="http://dinamina.lk/2009/02/05/National-flag.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2006 ජනවාරි 13 දා ඇරඹි සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහය ආරමිභ කරමින් ලියූ මේ අදහස පලගැන්වී සිංහල යුනිකේතය අන්තර්ජාලයේ ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රවාහයක් වී ඒ වටා ජන සමුදායක් එක් රැස්වී තිබෙනවා. එයින්ම එය තිරසාර වී අප දුටු අනාගත සිහිනය සැබෑවී තිබෙනවා. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/973949baec1e0274"&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/973949baec1e0274&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;වසර ගණනකට පසුව පැවති 2006 පෙබරවාරි 05 දින නිදහස් සමරුවේ කාහල නාදයේ උද්දාමයෙන් ලියූ මේ අදහසත් අද සඵල වී තිබෙනවා.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/d03df39920ca6064"&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/d03df39920ca6064&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දේශාභිමානය එහි අරටුවක් වී, අප රටට වින කළ සතුරන් පරදමින්, අප එක සේසත් වෙමින් සිටිනවා. එක් දේශයක් ලෙස අපට මේ ලෙසින් සතුටු විය හැකි වන්නේ ඒ අරමුණ අරභයා අප ලියූ කියූ දේ පමණක් නොව ඒවා ප්‍රායෝගිකව ක්‍රියාවට නැංවූ හෙයින් ද අපට සමාජයේ ප්‍රවර්ධනයක දායක වන්නට හැකිවීමයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;අපගේ ගමන වලකාලන්නට ව්විධා‍කාර ප්‍රයෝගයන් එල්ල වූවද අප්‍රහ්ත ධෛර්යය හා නොසැලීම ඉදිරියේ ඒ ප්‍රයන්තයන් හිරු දුටු පිණි මෙන් පහව ගියාහුය. හුඟක් අයගේ නිර්මාණශීලි අදහසුත් ධනාත්මක සහයත් ඊට නොඅඩුව ලද බවද කිව යුතුයි. ඉන් අප සැම ලද තෘප්තියත්, සමූහයක් ලෙස ලබාගත් ජයග්‍රහණත් වඩාත් නිවැරදි සේ පසක් වී ඇති ඒ මාවතේම නැණ නුවණින් ඉදිරියට යාමට අපට ලැබෙන මහත් සවියක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;අනාගතය දැකීමට මෙන්ම එය ගොඩ නැගීමට පරමාදර්ශ සැපයීම ද රටක බුද්ධිමතුන්ගේ කාර්ය භාරයක්. ඒ සඳහා පහල මට්ටමේ ජනතාව පෙරමුණු ගැන්වීමද බුද්ධිමතුන් විසින් කර ඇති බව අතීතයෙන්ද වර්ථමානයෙන්ද පැහැදිලියි. අප විසින් කරන දේවල් වල ප්‍රතිඵල දීර්ඝ කාලීන නිසා, එක් වරම සැවොම ඒවා වටහා නොගනිත්. ඒ සැවොම එක හා සමාන දැක්මක් නොදකින නිසාය.&lt;br /&gt;අපට සන්නිවේදනය වැදගත් වන්නේ මේ අවස්ථාවේය. ඒ අප දකින දර්ශනය අන් අයටද පෙන්වා දීමටය. ඒ සඳහා පොදු භාෂාවක් තිබීම කොතරම් සුදුසුද ? එහෙත් අප රටේ ප්‍රධාන භාෂා තුනක් පවතී. අප රටේ 80%ක් පමණ කථාකරන්නේ ලියන්නේ එක භාෂාවකි. භාෂා දෙකක් දන්නෝ ටිකය. භාෂා තුනක් දන්නෝ ඊටත් අල්පය.මේ නිසා අවම වශයෙන් ද්වී භාෂා හැකියාවන් වර්ධනය මේ නිසා වෑදගත්ය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;මේ සඳහා තාක්‍ෂණය භාවිතා කළ හැකි බව අප කියන්නේ මන්ද ?මේ උදාහරණය ඊට නිදසුනකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;அ ஆ இ ஈ உ ஊ எ ஏ ஐ ஒ ஓ ஔ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/unicode/vowels.rm"&gt;http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/unicode/vowels.rm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;භාෂා හැකියා වර්ධනයේ සාම්‍ප්‍රදායික ක්‍රම වේද අතරට ICT ගෙන ඒම අපගේ අරමූණයි. අප ඒ ගැන ව්ශ්වාස කරන්නේ ශිල්ප සයුර ව්‍යාපෘතියෙන් අප ලත් අත්දැකීම් පෙරටු කොටගෙනය. තව වසර තුනකින් එය සත්‍ය බව පිළිගැනෙනු ඇත. එය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට අපට තිබෙන පහසුකම් හා ගැටළු පිළිබඳව අප මේ අනුව අධ්‍යයනය කරමු. ඒ සඳහා සැකසෙන තාක්‍ෂණික ප්‍රජා සමූහය ICT4UNITY සමූහය වේ. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;ජාතික සමගියට විවිධ ක්‍රමවේද තිබුනත් අප දන්නා තාක්‍ෂණය හා බ්ම් මට්ටමේ අත්දැකීම්ද භාවිතා කරමින් ලඟාව්ය හැකි පොදු අරමුණකට ඉලක්කයකි ICT4UNITY. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;ICT4UNITY අභිමතාර්තය විවිධ වෙනස් කම් වලින් හා අවිශ්වාසයේ අඳුරු වලාවෙන් වෑසී දුරස්ව සිටින අප රටේ විවිධ ජාතීන් අතර භාෂා හැකියාවන් වෑඩවීමට හා ධනාත්මක සන්නිවේදනය ඇතිකිරීමට අපගේ තාක්‍ෂණික හැකියාවන් යොගැනීම වන අතර , එක මවකගේ දරුවන් ලෙස එකම රටක , එක්සේසත් වීමට මුලපුරන මේ යුගයේ කාලීන අවශ්‍යතාවයක් සපුරාලීමක් ද වෙයි.&lt;br /&gt;තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණයෙන් ජාතික සමගිය ගොඩ නගමු.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;අප ඊට මේ 2009 ලබන 61 වන නිදහස් දිනයේ ප්‍රථමාරම්භය තැබුවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ict4unity.ning.com/"&gt;http://ict4unity.ning.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;සෙත්වේවා!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;නිරංජන් මීගමිමන&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6383998508271387952?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6383998508271387952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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Unity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/OADYU4iqqKrsqAU*-OJjbM6Ubx*fAESk9rDzsf4573EV8C-7rjMI8KUi*y5NrkDOkx*LFTk9jiAS-RcVo3s8Dyoj9iD4mKto/logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are on a door step of a new era, an important time of our history, building a new society. Lets leave the fear, mistrust and indifferences that darkened us, lets become children of our motherland to build National Unity as Sri Lankans Let us use ICT to help our people learn Sinhala, Tamil and English to communicate and we will lead building National Unity through ICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICT4UNITY Project is just for that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ict4unity.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?"&gt;Volunteer Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="button" href="http://ict4unity.ning.com/#"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අද අප ඉතිහාසයේ වැදගත් සන්ධිස්ථානයක, ඉතිහාසයේ නව යුගයක දොරටුව අභියස සිටිමු. උදාවන හෙටට නවමු සමාජයක් බිහි කිරීම අපගේ වගකීමයි. සමානාත්මතාවයෙන් බිය, සැකය, වෙනස්කම් අඳුරු වලා දුරු කර, අපි ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය මව් බිමෙහි එකම දරු කැලක් ලෙස ජාතික සමගිය ගොඩනැඟීමට එක් වෙමු. තොරතුරු සහ සන්නිවේදන තාක්‍ෂණය යොදාගැනිමින් සිංහල, දෙමල සහ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ඉගෙනුමටත් අප ජනතාවට සන්නිවේදනය තුලින් ජාතික සමගිය ගොඩනැඟීමටත් දායක වෙමු.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICT4UNITY ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඒ සඳහායි!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ict4unity.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?"&gt;ස්වේච්චාවෙන් දායක වන්න&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;புது யுகத்தின் வாசலில், எமது வரலாற்றின் மிக முக்கியமான தருணத்தில் நாம் ஒரு புதிய சமுகத்தை கட்டி எழுப்புகின்றோம். எம்மை இருளில் வைத்திருந்த எமது பயங்கள், அவநம்பிக்கைகள் வேற்றுமைகளை களைந்து எமது தாய் திரு நாட்டின் ஒன்று பட்ட குழந்தைகளாக நாட்டின் ஒற்றுமையை கட்டி எழுப்புவோம். சிங்கள, தமிழ், அங்கில மொழிகளை அனைவரும் கற்றுக்கொள்ள ICT ஐ பயன்படுத்தி அதன்முலம் தேசத்தின் ஒருமை பாட்டை நிலைநிறுத்த நாம் வழிகாட்டுவோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICT4UNITY செயல் திட்டம் இதற்கெனவே உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ict4unity.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;தன்னார்வத்துடன் இணையுங்கள்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Initiate the Change in 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නායකත්වයි.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සමූහයක සිටීම, තම සමූහය සමග සන්නිවේදනය, සමූහයක නායකත්වය බෙදාගැනීම, සඝුහයක විශ්වාසනීය ගොඩනගා ගැනීම, අරමුණක් වෙනුවෙන් කැපවීම, බාධක හමුවේ නොසැලීම නායකත්වයයි. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නායකත්වය පහසු හෝ අපහසු නැත. එය කුඩා හෝ ලොකුද නැත. සෑම අයෙකුටම නායකයෙක් විය හැක. නැණසළ ජාලය තිරසාර වීමට නම් නායකයින් අවශ්‍යය. ඔවුන් බිම් මට්ටමේ සිට බිහිවීම අවශ්‍යය. අද නැණසළට එන සිසුවා හෙට නැණසළ ජාලයේ නායකයකු විය හැක.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නායකයින් ආනයනය කළ නොහැක. නායකයින් බිහිවන්නේ ඔබ අතරිනි. නැණසළ නායකයකු වීමට ඔබටද හැකිය. නායකයින්ගේ සමූහයකට එකතු වන්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර ව්‍යාපෘතිය&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8791212861610160202?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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/&gt;රටක් වශයෙන් අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පෙර කිසිදවසක මුහුණ නොදුන් සන්ධිස්ථානයකට පත්ව ඇතැයි මා සිතමි. අද අපට තිබෙන ප්‍රධාන අවශ්‍යතාවයක් වන්නේ ජාතීන් අතර සුහද තාවයක් ගොඩනැගීමයි.&lt;br /&gt;ඒ සඳහා නැණසළට විශාල කාරියක් කළ හැකිය. ඒ ජාතික සමගිය සඳහා සන්නිවේදනය ලබා දීමෙනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ අනුව සෑම නැණසළකම අප සැමට පොදු භාෂාව වන ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාව ඉගැන්වීම, විවිධ ජාතීන් නැණසළ තුලිනි සම්බන්ධ කිරීම, එම ජාතීන්හට සිංහල, දෙමළ හා ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින් සන්නිවේදනයට මග පෑදීම ගැන ජාතික සමුළුවේදී කතුකාවක් ඇතිවීම වඩාත් සුදුසු ආරම්භයකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;ශිල්ප සයුර ව්‍යාපෘතිය&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-5784825933130710263?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/5784825933130710263/comments/default' title='Post 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ප්‍රධානම ගැටළුව ලෝක බැංකු ආධාර අවසාන වීමයි. එම නිසා හැකි සෑම නැණසළක්ම තම ව්යදම් පියවා ගත හැකි තත්වය ලබා ගත යුතුයි. ඒ සඳහා තනි තනිව නොව නෑණසළ ජාලයක් ලෙස එකමුතුව කටයුතු කිරීම ඉතා වැදගත්. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;හොඳම උදාහරණය අපගේ වීරෝධාර හමුදා. ඔවුන් අවි වැසි නොබලා, ඉමහත් ධෛර්යයෙන් හා නායකත්වයකින් ‍ලබාගත් ජයග්‍රහණ දෙස බලන්න. ඉන් අප රට වසර තිහක් බලා සිටින සාමයේ අරුණළු අපට ලැබෙන බව අපට පෙනෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඒ වගේම අපගේ නැණසළ ජාලයම වෙනස්කම් පසෙක තබා, එක ඉලක්කයකට යනවා නම් අපටත් පුළුවන් අපේ නැණසළ ජාලය ලොව අනගිතම නැණසළ ජාලය බවට පත් කරන්නට. ඒ සඳහා සෑම නෑණසළ අයිතිකරුවකුම, සෑම නැණසළ ක්‍රියාකරුවකුම, සෑම සේවා සපයන්නකුම, සෑම නිළධාරියකුම තම වගකීම සහ යුතුකම ඉටුකිරීම ද අවශ්‍යයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මහවැලිය ආරම්භ කිරීමේදී සමහරු සිතුවේ එය විහිළුවක් කියා. ඒත් අද රටට බත මෙන්ම බල ශක්තිය සපයන ප්‍රධාන මාර්ගයක් එය. නැණසළත් එහෙමයි. තවම වසර තුනයි. මේ අමාරු කාලය එක්වී කටයුතු කළහොත් නෑණසළ තුලින් ගම නංවා අපගේ රට දියුණු කළ හැකිවේව්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සඳහා එළඹෙන "ජාතික නැණසළ සමුළුව" ඉතා වැදගත් බව මගේ හැඟීමයි. එහිදී අප නැණසළ ජාලයට වඩාත් වැදගත් වන කාරණා කෙරෙහි අවධානය යෙදීමට අවස්ථාවක් යෙදෙනවා. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ තිරසාරභාවය එහිදී ඉතා වැදගත්ම කරුණ ලෙස මා සිතන අතර පහත අංශ කෙරෙහි අප සංවාද ගොඩ නැගේනම් ඉතා වැදගත්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. නැණසළ තිරසාරභාවය&lt;br /&gt;2. ජාතික සමගිය සඳහා සන්නිවේදනය&lt;br /&gt;3. නෑණසළ වල ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගැන්වීම&lt;br /&gt;තවද &lt;br /&gt;4. ග්‍රාමීය ජීවනෝපාය සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;5. කාන්තා,  ළමා හා තරුණ දැනුම සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;6. කෘෂිකාර්මික දැනුම සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;මේ අතර තවමත් ලංකාවේ 55% ක් තවමත් වාර්ෂිකව අපොස සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ අසමත් වෙනවා, ගණිතය, ඉංග්‍රීසි, විද්‍යාව ඉතා දුර්වලයි. රැකියා ප්‍රශ්නය හා වැරදි ආහාර පුරුදු නිසා ග්‍රාමීය සෞඛ්‍යය ගැටළු ඇතිවෙලා. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සෑම ප්‍රශ්නයකට මුල‍ දැණුම හිඟකම, නෑණසළ අරමුණ දැනුම හා සන්නිවේදනය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එහෙත් නැණසළ ජාලය තුල තිබෙන ප්‍රධාන ගැටළුවත් දැනුම හා සන්නිවේදනය හිඟකම. එම නිසා එළඹෙන නැණසළ සමුළුවේ ප්‍රධාන අරමුණක් ලෙස නැණසළ අතර සන්නිවේදනය, දැනුම හුවමාරුවද අයත් වීම වැදගත්.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;අපට තිබෙන මේ අභියෝග, මේ වසර තුලම ජය ගැනීම ඉතාම වැදගත් වන්නේ නෑණසළ ජාලයේ පැවැත්ම ඒ මත පවතින නිසා. නෑණසළ ජාලයේ තිරසාරභාවය ඇතිකිරීමට උපරීම කැපවීමක් සෑම දෙනාගෙන්ම අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ ඒ නිසා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සඳහා තිරසාර වැඩ පිළිවෙළක්, &lt;br /&gt;ජාතික සමගිය සඳගා සන්නිවේදනය&lt;br /&gt;සැමදෙනාගේම උපරීම කැපවීමත් &lt;br /&gt;යන දෙකම 2009 නැණසළ සමුළුවේ අරමුණු අතර ප්‍රමුඛයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නව නැණසළ ගමණක ආරම්භයද ඉන් ඇතිවේවි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-6057658647567890071?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/6057658647567890071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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TImes, Say Some</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style = "height:385px !important; width:480px !important;"  src="http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/2028853839/a/58ef677afb89fc040e3dec6de7dd6c26/p/1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width=" 425" height=" 355" flashvars="autoplay=1"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style = "height:385px !important; width:480px !important;"  src="http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/1351662550/a/58ef677afb89fc040e3dec6de7dd6c26/p/1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width=" 425" height=" 355" flashvars="autoplay=0"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style = "height:385px !important; width:480px !important;"  src="http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/3296393836/a/58ef677afb89fc040e3dec6de7dd6c26/p/1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width=" 425" height=" 355" flashvars="autoplay=0"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7535936910076790378?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7535936910076790378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7535936910076790378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7535936910076790378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7535936910076790378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-talks-some-times-say-some.html' title='Some Talks, Some TImes, Say Some'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4283138633310115541</id><published>2008-12-24T02:03:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-24T02:03:59.304+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Shilpa Sayura wins 4th International Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img height="80" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/dJZqMex8mZ04VIhw5wt-sX3w3dYr9jxZSGUwTtiaYW9Kv6gW3gGoPp230ZW04kvffqu0M2Ir6ZcIbDfF5ty52d7tufII18Es/logo.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura, the flagship e-SDI rural e learning project from Sri Lanka won DISKOBOLOS 2008 international award, At final ceremony in the Hotel Continental Belgrade, on 18th December 2008, this year's the most qualitative solutions in the application of information and communication technologies in almost all spheres of economy and non-economy were announced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="200" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/aS4B-KOxfHM8mSsWS3hOzMsQuG*chcNRlqHPdN3uL4YbqVlLcuqrsk*Oht8mstxp6Y8V6puKbgu0jKCGKLv1d17gfVlYH-UN/DISKOBOLOS.jpg" width="174" align="left" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Jasna Matić, Minister of Telecommunication and Information Society of Serbia, opened the ceremony and award recognition attended the highest bodies of Serbia and President of CEPIS - Council of European Professional Informatics Societies,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Đorđe Dukić, president of JISA – Union of IT Societies of Serbia, as a 14-year-old organizer of recognition Diskobolos, by welcome speech stressed the fact that this recognition, unique by its purpose and emphasizing the positive experiences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the last 14 years, in cooperation with ICT association councile, European Economic Chamber, the West Balkans economic chambers and ICT associations, JISA traditionally gives a Diskobolos award for the most successful modern technologies applying in everyday business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img height="233" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/aS4B-KOxfHNtfWgF3liVXC5ucmLo-Pa*7zLssbaLmAokMNGboE2dLIKLETGTcHzLXpUzqRoTODxNtjwzxmgSm96GKOSYrx57/p450ic2.jpg" width="550" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of the achivement "Telecenters and Shilpa Sayura keep growing, We are exploring new possibilities and dimensions to reach rural people at large", says Niranjan Meegammana, the Designer of Shilpa Sayura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shilpa Sayura rural e learning project, funded by ICTA e-SDI Programme implemented in South- East Sri Lanka by e fusion won three other international Awards I4D 2007 in India, GKP 2007 in Malaysia, Stockholm Challenge 2008 in Sweden, and Best Corporate Citizen Merit by CCC in Sri Lanka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information on Shilpa Sayura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;+94 (0)812 801 802&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About DISKOBOLOS 2008 Award&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jisa.rs/engleski/indexe.htm"&gt;http://www.jisa.rs/engleski/indexe.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.personalmag.rs/it/diskobolos-2008-prezentacija-prijavljenih-radova/"&gt;http://www.personalmag.rs/it/diskobolos-2008-prezentacija-prijavljenih-radova/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcigre.net/news.php?item.2711.4"&gt;http://www.pcigre.net/news.php?item.2711.4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;img height="450" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/dJZqMex8mZ0IATg2krt8xOzrwzFmnOvAPYJ-4V2hxQaxqfrKZDVU-SV2s1DMbfHnZT6K*JkwYmJ5tHySaoqSCOlguoeZeRWh/DSCF6475.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4283138633310115541?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4283138633310115541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4283138633310115541' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4283138633310115541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4283138633310115541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/12/shilpa-sayura-wins-4th-international.html' title='Shilpa Sayura wins 4th International Award'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-8669961052691191534</id><published>2008-12-10T23:03:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T23:43:05.982+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Recognising the Silent Operators before they are gone!</title><content type='html'>If I do not write this note, the world may forget Pushpa Rani soon. I am writing this note as I think She is symbolic as a Nenasala (Telecenter) Operator and also important us to remember as a person who contributed for the success in the Nenasala Movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SUAAhJPCAMI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ZERr_xzdXYQ/s1600-h/DSCF7055.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SUAAxtnAaKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/1f3QrHoxCZE/s1600-h/DSCF7055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278219617335011490" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SUAAxtnAaKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/1f3QrHoxCZE/s400/DSCF7055.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We met Pushparani in 28th January 2007, when we visited Koslanda Nenasala. She was teaching ICT to some kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until that day she was an unknown Nenasala Operator, Innocent, humble and beautiful too. She could not speck much Sinhala or English But we communicated using all languages. She was wonderful Nenasala Operator with right education and commitment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had come to Nenasala as a one of the first students to Learn ICT. She did well under Srikanthan Teaching and later became Nenasala Operator and ICT teacher for Students. When we asked about her future plans, she said&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that her aim is to learn more ICT, complete a degree and become a better ICT Teacher at Nenasala to develop the Children. Then today, I hear that she has passed away after meeting a tragic landslide accident created by last rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She became a Telecenter Operator as she wanted to serve. She didn't take a job offers came her way in Colombo. It may have been because she wanted to be in the community and with her family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She served the one's who are least Served in Koslanda, a distant rural village from us. She delivered what we plan, She was the interface and the most important link to the community we serve. Her community was mostly poor estate children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She may have taken only a small amount of money as an allowance. She gave her youth life totally committed to Nenasala and to develop her community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I met her again for the second time in May 2008, we didn't have much time for conversatio. She served us a home grown cup of tea. I can stil remember her as a happy smilling person, a one that needed by Telecenters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She may have been the First ICT Teacher for many kids who will remember her kindness and what she thought. Someday some of these Kids will take her route in Nenasala Movement to become Nenasala Operators, or do more things to change the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Coming January we had planned her to invite for e-BIT online degree programme by Colombo University, She was one of the good prospectus ith the need and commitment. Before she could not complete her Telecenter Journey, we hear that she's gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I hear, Her house went under a landslide in heavy rain, her family has become homeless, now living in an orphanage, and she faced major injuries and fought for her life for several days. She was supposed to bring to Colombo National ospital when she closed her eyes for ever. I think we have had some way to help her when she was helpless in ICU of a rural hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life would have become different, if she left Nenasala and took the job in Colombo, or got married and left the community. However she choosed to be a Nenasala Operator until she crossed the line of living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Kids come to Nenasala for their next lesson of ICT, She is no longer there. Some Kids are so small to understand a death, will wait until she shows up and some may even stop coming to Nenasala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Pushpa Rani faced with the tragic accident of a natural disaster, she was doing her service, she was not known to many although she was member of a large community movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least now we can recognize her service and contribution, which makes significant and a nobel act to up lift the sprit of Nenasla community. We have to remember her, because she represents many such silent Telecenter Operators, who serve the last, taking nothing but giving everything to develop our world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was not another person but a symbolic Telecenter Operator, a community leader, an ICT Teacher and a friend of many. Let us remember Pushpa Rani (Meaning the Queen of Flowers) as a continuing Spirit in Nenasala Movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the sometime let us work towards to uplift other Nenasala Operator lives like Pusha Rani, before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's too late to recognize them. May her attend Nirvana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Memory of Pushpa Rani&lt;br /&gt;The Smiling Nenasala Operator of Koslanda&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammmana&lt;br /&gt;ShilpaSayura.org&lt;br /&gt;10th December 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8669961052691191534?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8669961052691191534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=8669961052691191534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8669961052691191534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/8669961052691191534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/12/if-i-do-not-write-this-note-world-may.html' title='Recognising the Silent Operators before they are gone!'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SUAAxtnAaKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/1f3QrHoxCZE/s72-c/DSCF7055.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-5679305962775228190</id><published>2008-11-24T18:37:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-24T18:38:51.683+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ICT4D, Telecenters, Awards and Blogging in Local</title><content type='html'>People try to find new meaning for Blogging, and it includes me. Blogs are a wonderful way to breed new ideas to help shape communities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the blogging initially got to Sri Lanka, No body much cared for it. But a group of us initiated blogging in "Sinhala" Local Language, which made the difference. It made more outreach to people who are concerned. Now there is a growing local blog culture. Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style='text-align:left'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-2/big/DSC_6247.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly ICT4D was explained in as many as presentations. However the concepts restricted to concepts and Academic Needs. It just circled around Colombo, Until we used local language to explain what it means. Now rural people have begun to feel the value of Telecenters. Now they walk into Telecenters that they thought distant. Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e Learning had been here for years, but only few benefited. But when it turned into Local language people were amused, students thoughts it's the future. Shilpa Sayura went to win 3 World Awards i4D , GKP and Stockholm Challenge 2008 for Local Language e Learning for Rural Communities. Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style='text-align:left'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-3/big/DSC_6855.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now we are a minority as we speak and write in English. We will become a majority if we go local and blog in local languages of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get Local it's the only way to involve rural communities, who actually get served from Telecenters. Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Text below is in "Sinhala" my local language. 19.5 Million people out of 20 million people understand it as well as most of the Telecenters use it in ICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get Sinhaka Unicode Fonts from&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.locallanguages.lk"&gt;http://www.locallanguages.lk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සාර්ථක වීමට &lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ නියම සමාජ ව්‍යාපාරයක් වී සාර්ථක වීමට එහි නියැලි සියල්ලන්ම ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධනය පෙරමුණු කරගත් අදහස් අනුච ක්‍රියා කළ යුතුයි. සාර්ථක ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක සමහර නැණසළ වලින් සමහරක් ලක්‍ෂණ ගිලීහී ගොසින්, ඒවා ICT ව්‍යාපාර වූ අවස්ථා තියෙනවා. ඉල්ලුම පරිදි සැපයුමට වඩා අවශ්‍යතාවයන් හඳුනාගන ඒ අනුව තම සේවා සැලසුම නැණසළක අදහසයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එම ක්‍ෂේත්‍ර ලෙස සැලකිය හැක්කේ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ළමා හැකියා සහ අධ්‍යාපන සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;කෘෂිකාර්මික,ජීවනෝපාය දැනුම හා ආර්ථික සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;තරුණයින්ට සහ කාන්තාවන්ගේ නායකත්ව සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;සමාජීය ආකල්ප, සහ සංස්කෘතික සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;රාජ්‍ය සේවා තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනය හා ප්‍රජා සම්බන්ධතා ගොඩ නැගීම&lt;br /&gt;පාරිසරික හා සෞඛ්‍ය සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ උපයෝගී කරගන්නා ක්‍රමචේදය මේ කාර්යයන් කෙරෙහි තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදනයද , තාක්‍ෂණයද ලබා දීමයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සංකල්ප සියල්ල, එකක් , හෝ මුසුවක් නැණසළේ ආකෘතිය විය හැකියි. එය තීරණය වන්නේ නැණසළ ප්‍රජා පරිසරය, සම්පත් ප්‍රමාණය, නැණසළ නායකත්වය සහ දක්‍ෂතාවන්ය. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන වැඩ පිළිවෙළවල් දූරදර්ශී වීම, සැලසුම් සහගත වීම හා ඉලක්ක සහිත වීම වැදගත්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සෑම විටම ප්‍රමාණය වැඩි වීමට වඩා සේවා තත්වයෙන් උසස්වීම ඒ මෙන්ම ප්‍රජාවගේ සහය සහ ප්‍රසාදයද ලබාගැනීමද වැදගත්. නැණසළක ප්‍රජා සහභාගීත්වය වැඩිවන විට එහි අගයද කළ හැකි සේවාවද වැඩිවේ. ප්‍රජාවගේ බුද්ධිමතුන් නැණසළ කටයුතු වලට යොදවා ගැනීම ඉතා පහසු කටයුත්තකි. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style='text-align:left'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.telecenter.lk/photos/e3-3/big/DSC_7106.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Local Language Makes the Difference.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;any ideas ?&lt;br /&gt;Niranjan Meegammana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-5679305962775228190?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/5679305962775228190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=5679305962775228190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/5679305962775228190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/5679305962775228190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/11/ict4d-telecenters-awards-and-blogging.html' title='ICT4D, Telecenters, Awards and Blogging in Local'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4760543506264206524</id><published>2008-11-06T00:04:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-06T00:14:26.203+05:30</updated><title type='text'>නැණසළ සාර්ථක වීමට</title><content type='html'>නැණසළ නියම සමාජ ව්‍යාපාරයක් වී සාර්ථක වීමට එහි නියැලි සියල්ලන්ම ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධනය පෙරමුණු කරගත් අදහස් අනුච ක්‍රියා කළ යුතුයි. සාර්ථක ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක සමහර නැණසළ වලින් සමහරක් ලක්‍ෂණ ගිලීහී ගොසින්, ඒවා ICT ව්‍යාපාර වූ අවස්ථා තියෙනවා. ඉල්ලුම පරිදි සැපයුමට වඩා අවශ්‍යතාවයන් හඳුනාගන ඒ අනුව තම සේවා සැලසුම නැණසළක අදහසයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එම ක්‍ෂේත්‍ර ලෙස සැලකිය හැක්කේ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ළමා හැකියා සහ අධ්‍යාපන සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;කෘෂිකාර්මික,ජීවනෝපාය දැනුම හා ආර්ථික සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;තරුණයින්ට සහ කාන්තාවන්ගේ නායකත්ව සංවර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;සමාජීය ආකල්ප, සහ සංස්කෘතික සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;රාජ්‍ය සේවා තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනය හා ප්‍රජා සම්බන්ධතා ගොඩ නැගීම&lt;br /&gt;පාරිසරික හා සෞඛ්‍ය සංචර්ධනය&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ උපයෝගී කරගන්නා ක්‍රමචේදය මේ කාර්යයන් කෙරෙහි තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදනයද , තාක්‍ෂණයද ලබා දීමයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHpVX7NYKI/AAAAAAAAAE4/orOj9EX6RDY/s1600-h/DSC_3888.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265245992781701282" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHpVX7NYKI/AAAAAAAAAE4/orOj9EX6RDY/s400/DSC_3888.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සංකල්ප සියල්ල, එකක් , හෝ මුසුවක් ඔබගේ නැණසළේ ආකෘතිය විය හැකියි. එය තීරණය වන්නේ ඔබගේ ප්‍රජා පරිසරය, සම්පත් ප්‍රමාණය, නැණසළ නායකත්වය සහ ඔබගේ නැණසළ දක්‍ෂතාවන්ය. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන වැඩ පිළිවෙළවල් දූරදර්ශී වීම, සැලසුම් සහගත වීම හා ඉලක්ක සහිත වීම වැදගත්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සෑම විටම ප්‍රමාණය වැඩි වීමට වඩා සේවා තත්වයෙන් උසස්වීම ඒ මෙන්ම ප්‍රජාවගේ සහය සහ ප්‍රසාදයද ලබාගැනීමද වැදගත්. නැණසළක ප්‍රජා සහභාගීත්වය වැඩිවන විට එහි අගයද කළ හැකි සේවාවද වැඩිවේ. ප්‍රජාවගේ බුද්ධිමතුන් නැණසළ කටයුතු වලට යොදවා ගැනීම ඉතා පහසු කටයුත්තකි.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4760543506264206524?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4760543506264206524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4760543506264206524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4760543506264206524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4760543506264206524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_5620.html' title='නැණසළ සාර්ථක වීමට'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHpVX7NYKI/AAAAAAAAAE4/orOj9EX6RDY/s72-c/DSC_3888.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-1369221301947689500</id><published>2008-11-06T00:00:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-06T00:04:27.130+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ලෝකයේ නව ප්‍රවණතාවක් වන නැණසළ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;ලෝකයේ නව ප්‍රවණතාවක් වන නැණසළ අන්තගතය ගැන හුඟක් අයගේ දැක්ම පුලුල් නෑ. එය තාක්‍ෂණය සමග මිනිස් ජීවිත යහපත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක්. ලෝකයේ නැණසළ 25000 ක් පමණ තිබුනත්, තනි ජාලයක් ලෙස විශාලම එක ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නැණසළ ජාලය. ඒ නිසාම එයට ආවේණික ගැටළු සඳහා අපම පිළියම් සොයාගත යුතුයි. සමහර ලෝක නියැදි අපට ප්‍රයෝජනවත් වෙන්නට පුළුවන්, ඒවා අප අනුවර්ථනය කර සකසා ගත යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මා පසුගිය වසර තුන ගත කළේ ශිල්ප සයුර ව්‍යාපෘතිය තුලින් නෑණසළ බිමි මට්ටමේ අධ්‍යනය කරමින්. ඉන් ලද දැනුම හා අත්දැකීම් මත තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණය තුලින් සංවර්ධනය දෙසට ඉබේම යොමු උනා වගේම, ඉන්දීයාවේ, මැලේසියාවේදී හා ස්වීඩනයේදී බුද්ධිමතුන් හමුවී හුවමාරුවූ දැනුමෙන් හා අධ්‍යනයන් තුලින් ද ICT4D කේත්‍රයේ විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේෂණ වල වටිනාකම තේරුම් ගත්තා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙහිදී අප "නැණසළ තිරසාරභාවයට පත්කිරීමේ ක්‍රමවේද" පිළිබඳ පර්යේෂණ කිරීමටත්, ඉන් ඉගනගන්නා පාඩම් මත, තිබෙන ගැටළුවලට පිළියමි යෙදීමත්, නැණසළ අනාගතය සැලසුම් කිරීමත් අවශ්‍ය බවද වැටහුනා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e3 ව්‍යාපෘතිය බිහිවන්නේ ඉන් අනතුරුව. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHm0AfRYHI/AAAAAAAAAEw/S_5V2a3Xdto/s1600-h/concept.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265243220531568754" style="WIDTH: 293px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHm0AfRYHI/AAAAAAAAAEw/S_5V2a3Xdto/s400/concept.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecenter.lk/"&gt;http://www.telecenter.lk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e3 සඳහා ප්‍රථමයෙන්ම අප කළේ අවශ්‍යතා අධ්‍යයනයක්, ඒ සඳහා නැණසළ 60 ක් භාවිතා කළා දත්ත පදනම ලෙස, වැඩමුලු ආදියෙන් තොරුතුරු ලබා ගත්තා, සංවාද හා සම්මුඛ&lt;br /&gt;පරීක්‍ෂණ, ක්‍ෂේත්‍ර නිරීක්‍ෂණ තුලින් හා පැරණි අධ්‍යයන හා පළකිරීම්&lt;br /&gt;මගින්ද තොරතුරු ලබාගන විශ්ලේෂණය කරම්න් පූර්ණ වාර්ථාවක් සැකසුවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අවශ්‍යතා අධ්‍යයනයක අදහස අවශ්‍යතා හා සමිපත් හඳුනාගන ඒවා එකිනෙක පිරිද්දීමයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මා ඒ වාර්ථාව සකසද්දී ගොඩනැගූ සංකල්ප කිහියපක් සරළව මේ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. නැණසළ තිරසාරභාවය යනු නෑණසළක් තම සමාජ කාර්යේ යෙදෙමින් පැවැත්ම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රමාණයට ආදායම් ඉපයීමය. (සමාජ ව්‍යවසායකත්වය)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. නැණසළ රැක බලා ගත යුතු සමාජ හා ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනයේ වෙනසක් කළහැකි රාජ්‍ය හා ප්‍රජා කොටස් කරුවෙකි. (සමාජ ප්‍රතිදායකත්වය)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. නැණසළ තිරසාර කිරීම යනු ඒ හා බැඳුනු මානව ජාලය තිරසාර බවට පත් කිරීමය. (නැණසළ තිරසාරකතා මානව සංවර්ධනය)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. නැණසළ තිරසාරබාවයේ ගැටළු වල‍ට මූලික හේතුව අවශ‍ය දැනුමි සම්පත් හිඟකමය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. ඒ දැනුමි සම්පත් අප අතරම ඇති අතර ඒවා ඒකරාශී කරන විවිධ ප්‍රතිදායක බුද්ධි ජාලයක් (Multi Satke Holder Knowledge Network) ගොඩනැගිය යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ තිරසාරභාවය ගැන කටයුතු කරන හා උනන්දුවක් දක්වන ප්‍රජාව එක්කර , අවශ්‍ය සංවාද කර අපට සුදුසු පරිදි "නැණසළ තිරසාරතා ජා‍ලයක්" ගොඩනගන වැඩ පිළිවෙළක් අරඹීම කළ යුතු වන අතර ඊට බිම් මටිටමේ සිට ඉහළම මටටමේ අයර සහභාගි විය හැකි විවෘත පදනමක්ද තිබීම වැදගත්.&lt;br /&gt;අපට ඉගනගත හැකිදේ කොපමණද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.lk/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/6432398483c7e311/b3b078560bd93f88?hl=en&amp;amp;lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%85#b3b078560bd93f88"&gt;http://groups.google.lk/group/Sinhala-Unicode/browse_thread/thread/6432398483c7e311/b3b078560bd93f88?hl=en&amp;amp;lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%85#b3b078560bd93f88&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-1369221301947689500?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/1369221301947689500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=1369221301947689500' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1369221301947689500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/1369221301947689500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_06.html' title='ලෝකයේ නව ප්‍රවණතාවක් වන නැණසළ'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHm0AfRYHI/AAAAAAAAAEw/S_5V2a3Xdto/s72-c/concept.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-681983142057136538</id><published>2008-11-05T23:54:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-05T23:59:51.261+05:30</updated><title type='text'>නැණසළ නිර්වචනය</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;නැණසළ යනු&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;නැණසල යනු තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ හා සන්නිවේදන සේවා සහ උපදෙස් ලබා ගත හැකි පොදු ස්ථානයකි. ඒකපුද්ගලික අයිතියෙන් පරිගණක හා අන්තර්ජාල පිවිසුම් හසුකම් වෙනුවෙන් වියදම දැරිය නොහැකි ගමිවැසි ජනතාවට බෙදාහදා ගනිමින් තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ශණය සඳහා අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය මෙවලම්, දැනුම සහ අන්තර්ජාල පිවිසුම ලබා දීම නැණසල මගින් මූලිකවම සිදුකෙරේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHlShJiu3I/AAAAAAAAAEo/zhSJDwvAHYQ/s1600-h/DSC_3888.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265241545671621490" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHlShJiu3I/AAAAAAAAAEo/zhSJDwvAHYQ/s400/DSC_3888.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;නැණසළ උපයෝගී කොටගෙන ගමිවැසි ජනතාවගේ තොරතුරු අවශ්‍යතා සපුරාලීම, හැකියා ප්‍රවර්ධනය, රැකියා අවස්ථා වැඩි කිරීම, දෙස් විදෙස් වෙලඳපොල අවස්ථා ලබා දීම මගින් තාක්ශණ හා දැනුම් පරතරය අවම කර වුන්ගේ ජීවන තත්වය උසස් කිරීම&lt;br /&gt;බලාපොරොත්තු වේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නාගරික ප්‍රජාවට ඇති තාක්ශණ මෙවලම් සහ එම දැනුම වෙත ඇති ප්‍රවේශයට අවස්ථා වැඩි වීම ඔවුන්ට විෂේශ වරප්‍රසාදයක් වී ඇත. මෙම වරප්‍රසාදය නොමැති ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජාවට වරප්‍රසාද ලත් නාගරිග ප්‍රජාව සමඟ තරඟ කිරීමේදී තොරතුරු හිඟවීම මත ඉගෙනුම්,රැකියා, වෙලඳපොල ආදී අවස්ථා ද අහිමි වේ. ගම් වැසි ජනතාවටද සමාන අවස්ථා උදා කරමින් පනතාව අතර ඇති තාක්ශන පරතරය පිරිද්දීම නෑණසළේ උත්සාහයයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ප්‍රජාව තම රජයට සම්බන්ධ කිරීම,දුරස්ථව අධ්‍යාපනය ලාබාදීම, දේශීය සහ විදේශීය වෙළඳපළ අවස්ථා උදාකිරීම,රැකියා අවස්ථා ප්‍රවර්ධනය, ගම්මාන වල ගැටළු කෙරේ ජනතා අවධානය යොමු කිරීම හස ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන නායකත්වය තුලින් ගමි වැසි ජනතාවගේ ජීවිත වල වෙනසක් ඇතිකිරීමට නව්‍යතම තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ හා නිනිනිවංදන ක්‍රමවේද භාවිතය භාවිතය නැණසළේ මූලික අරමුණයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ඒ සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහයේ අප නිර්මාණය කළ නැණසළ නිර්වචනයයි. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-681983142057136538?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/681983142057136538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=681983142057136538' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/681983142057136538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/681983142057136538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_05.html' title='නැණසළ නිර්වචනය'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRHlShJiu3I/AAAAAAAAAEo/zhSJDwvAHYQ/s72-c/DSC_3888.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-782419176531107554</id><published>2008-11-05T18:35:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-05T19:53:08.350+05:30</updated><title type='text'>අපට හමුවූ නැණසළවරයන් සහ නැණසළවරියන්</title><content type='html'>මේ දක්වා අපට හමුවූ අපට හමුවූ නැණසළවරයන් සහ නැණසළවරියන් ඉතා කැපවීමකින් යුතුව, බොහෝ ආර්ථික පීඩා විඳිමින් ඔවුන් කරන කර්තව්‍යය ඉතාම අනර්ඝයි. ඔවුනට දැනුම හිඟයි, තක්‍ෂණ සහය අඩුයි, පහසුජම් සීමිතයි, බලාපෝරෝත්තු වැඩියි. ඔවුන් බොහෝදෙනා උසස්් අධ්‍යාපනයේ යෙදෙන ගමන් නැණසළ සේවය කරන්නේ. ඔවුන් නැණසළට සේවය කරන්නේ ගෙදරින් ඉල්ලා ගන්නා මුද‍ලින් යැපෙමින්. මේ අගනා මානව සම්පත සංවර්ධනය කිරීමට නිසි වැඩ පිළිවෙළක් අවශ්‍යයි. එය ඔවපන්ග අවශ්‍යතාවයන් අනුව මිස අපගේ අවශ්‍යතාවයන් අනුව සිදු නොවිය යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SRGaqMdIpvI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/EKCAVpUhcck/s1600-h/DSC_6855.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265159489061431026" style="WIDTH: 400px; 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CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SQ6x39Db1CI/AAAAAAAAAEI/91zRtlB9Vw4/s400/DSC_3888.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පසුව එම නැණසළ බොහෝමයක් නැණසළ සමාහ සංවර්ධන සංකල්පයට වඩා පෞද්ගලික සංවර්ධනය කරා යොමුවීම නිසා , පෝදු ආයතනවල නැණසළ පිහිටුවීමට තීරණයක් ගැනුණා කියා සිතිය හැකියි. මෙහිදී විහාරස්ථාන වලට මූලිකත්වය දීමට හේතුද සලකා බැලිය යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;විහාරස්ථාන ගමේ කාටත් පොදු ස්ථානයක් වීමත්, සාම්ප්‍රදායික ලෙස එඋ ගමේ අධ්‍යයන කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානය වීමත්, රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තියත් ඊට ප්‍රධාන හේතු ලෙස සලකන්නට පුළුවන්. ඒ අතරම හ්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජා සංවිධානවලටද මේ අවස්ථාව ලැබුණා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළක් ආරම්භ කරන විට ගම්වල අයට නොයෙකුත් බලාපොරොත්තු ලැබෙනවා. රජයෙන් උපකරණ හා අන්තර්ජාල පහසුකම් දෙන නිසා, එය පවත්වාගන යාමට ඔවුන් දක්වන මූල්‍යමය දායකත්වය ඉතා අඩුයි. ගම්වල ආර්ථික ගැටළු නිසා පරිගණක පුහුණුව සැපයීමෙන්ම අවශ්‍ය ආදායම ලබාගන්නට බැහැ. මේ නිසා ස්වේච්චා අය මිස පූර්ණකාලීනව කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයක් යොදවා ගැනීමට&lt;br /&gt;අපහසු වී තිබෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එම නිසා බොහෝ විට තාක්‍ෂණික දැනුම සපිරි අයගේ සේවය නැණසළකට ලබාගන්නට අපහසුයි. ඉන්න කාර්යය මණ්ඩලයත් දැනුම ලබාගන වෙනත් රැකියා සඳහා යනවා. දුරස්ථ භාවයේ හා විවිධ ගැටළු නිසා නැණසළකට අවශ්‍ය තාක්‍ෂණය හා දැනුම ලබාගැනීමේ අපහසුතා තියෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මින් ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රශ්නයක් තමා ඉංඟ්‍රීසි, තාක්‍ෂණ හා කළමණාකරණ දැනුම හිඟකම. මේ නිසා නැණසළට තම ඉලක්ක කරා යාමට අපහසුයි. ඒ අතරම නැණසළේ ක්‍රියාවලියට ගමේ බුද්ධිමතුන්ගේ සහභාගීත්වයේ අඩුවක්ද තියෙනවා. එවත් ප්‍රධාන ගැටළුවක් තමා නැණසළ ජාලයක්ට වඩා තනි තනිව ක්‍රියාත්මක වීම. මේ ආදී ගැටළු ගැන කළ අවශ්‍යතා අධ්‍යයනයකින් අප නැණසළ සංවර්ධනයට නව සංකල්ප හඳන්වාදිය යුතු බව තේරුම ගත්තා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නැණසළ සංකල්පය අප රටට ඉතා වැදගත් බව පසක් වී තිබෙනවා. උදාහරණයක් ලෙස කොළඹ ඕනෑඝ තැනක පොදු අන්තර්ජාල පහසුකම් තිබුනත් මොණරාගල දිස්ත්‍රක්කයේ එවැනි ස්ථාන 20-25 අතර ප්‍රමාණයක් තියෙන්නේ. එන් වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් නැණසළ. ඉතින් අප අතර කෙතරම් දැනුම පරතරයක් ඇතිවී තිබෙනවාද ? නැණසළ නිසා තාක්‍ෂණික දැනුම ලබනා නව සිසු පරම්පරාවක් ගම්බල බිහිවී තිබෙනවා. රැකියා අවස්ථා වර්ධනය වී නැණසළ ගම්වල නව පිබිදීමක්ද දක්නට පුළුවන්. නැණසළ ජාලය මේ ගතකරන්නේ අසීරු අවධියක්. පැවත්ම සඳහා ඔවුන් බොහෝදෙනා විශාල උත්සාහයක් දරනවා. අප එය ඉතා අගට කළ යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඉන් දියුණු බන්නේ අපහං රටයි. නැණසළ දිගටම පවත්වා ගැනීමට ඔවුනට සහයක් අවශ්‍යයි. එය සමාජය තුලින්ම උකහා ගැනීමට පුළුවන් නම් කෙතරම් හොඳද ? නැණසළ සමාජ ඇවැසිතාවයක් නිසා සමාජය විසින්ම එය රැකබලාගැනීමට මුල්විය යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබ සැමට සෙත්වේවා&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-2955646632595478382?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/2955646632595478382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=2955646632595478382' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2955646632595478382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/2955646632595478382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/11/2.html' title='නැණසළ ජාලයේ තිරසාරභාවයේ වැදගත්කම 2'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SQ6x39Db1CI/AAAAAAAAAEI/91zRtlB9Vw4/s72-c/DSC_3888.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4604039149856183030</id><published>2008-10-30T02:35:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-30T02:41:32.787+05:30</updated><title type='text'>අපේ රටට නැණසළ ජාලයේ තිරසාරභාවයේ වැදගත්කම</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SQjRRXav9vI/AAAAAAAAAD4/h0n6bk7nNOw/s1600-h/P1060187.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262686260856616690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SQjRRXav9vI/AAAAAAAAAD4/h0n6bk7nNOw/s400/P1060187.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ආයුබොවන්!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මීට වසර තුනකට ප්‍රථම සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් භාවිතයේ වැදගත් කම අලලා මවිසින් සම්පාදනය කරන ලද ලිපි තුලින් ඇතිවූ අප සමූහයේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වලින් අද සිංහල යුනිකේතය ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රචාහයක් බවට පත්වී තිබෙන නිසා බොහො දුරට අපගේ මූලික පරමාර්ථ සඵල වී තිබෙන බව සිතන්නට පුළුවනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මහවැලිය ආරම්භ කිරීමේදී ඇතිවුනු මූලික ගැටළු එකක් තමා මැලේරියාව, මිනිසුන් විස්තාපනය එහෙත් අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සපයන බත සැපයීමේ මූලික කාර්යයේ මහවැලිය පෙරමුණ අරගෙන. මේ අදහසම අපට නැණසළ ගැන කියන්නට පුළුවන්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;බොහෝ අය නැණසළ කියා දකින්නේ අහම්බෙන් ටවුමක හෝ ප්‍රසිද්ධ විහාරස්ථානයක නැණසළක් පමණයි.&lt;br /&gt;නමුත් නැණසළ ජාලයේ වැඩි හරිය ඒ වගේ නොවෙයි. එක් එක් නැණසළ ආකෘතියෙන් සමවූවත් ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වයෙන් හා සේවාවෙන් වෙනස්. ඒවා එක් එක් අතින් ඉදිරියෙන්ද, සමහර අතින් පසින්ද සමහරවිට ආර්ථික ශක්තියෙන්ද සමහරවිට සමාජීය ශක්තියෙන්ද පවතිනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;ඒත් ඇයි නැණසළ ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;රට පුරාම පරිගණක ආයතන තියෙද්දි ? ඒ අපට හිතෙන හැටි. වචනයේ පරිසමාප්ත අර්ථයේ නැණසළ යනු කුමක්ද ? එය දේශපාලනික උවමනාවක්ද ? නැතහොත් අසාර්ථක වැඩ පිළිවෙලක්ද ? එහි අනාගත සාර්ථකත්වයක් සඳහා කළ යුතු දේ මොනවාද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පසුගිය මාස 5 තුල ඌව නැණසළ 60 ක් ඉතා ගැඹුරෙන් විමසා බලමින් මා කළ පර්යෂණාත්මක අධ්‍යයනයන් කෙරෙන් මතුවූ කරුණු අනුව නැණසළ සම්බන්ධව ඇති මත කිහිපයක් සළකා බැලිනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. නැණසළ අසාර්ථක වැඩපිළිවෙලක්ද ?&lt;br /&gt;2. නැණසළ දේශපාලන සංකල්පයක්ද ?&lt;br /&gt;3. නැණසළ සාර්ථක කරගැනීමට කළ යුත්තං කුමක්ද?&lt;br /&gt;4. එම කටයුත්තේදී රාජ්‍ය , පෞද්ගලික හා ප්‍රජා වගකීම් කවරේද ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ ගැන විවිධ අදහස් තිබුණත්, විද්‍යාත්මකව මේ කරුණු අධ්‍යයනයකට කැමති ඔබට මීට ආරාධනා කරමි. අපේ දැනුම ගමට දීමටද මේ තවත් අවස්ථාවක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබ සැමට සෙත්වේවා !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන෴ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4604039149856183030?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4604039149856183030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4604039149856183030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4604039149856183030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/4604039149856183030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html' title='අපේ රටට නැණසළ ජාලයේ තිරසාරභාවයේ වැදගත්කම'/><author><name>෴මඃ෴</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/SQjRRXav9vI/AAAAAAAAAD4/h0n6bk7nNOw/s72-c/P1060187.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-7621256590187453417</id><published>2008-04-10T16:58:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-10T18:57:18.293+05:30</updated><title type='text'>සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ප්‍රජා ගත වීම තුල නිමවෙන අපේ කාර්යය භාරය</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/web/uni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 40px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode/web/uni.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ප්‍රජා ගත වීම තුල නිමවෙන අපේ කාර්යය භාරය එක්දාස් නවසිය බර ගණන් වල සහ දෙදහස් මුල් ගණන් වල සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් තිබුනේ ඉතාම දුර්වල තත්වයක. සම්මතය සැකසිලා තිබුනට අකුරු, දුවන දිබ්බේ නෑ. ආචාර්ය ගිහාන් ICTA එක තුලට ඒමත්, මංජු හත්තොටුවගේ දුර දක්නා නුවණත් එක්ක, මුරසු ලංකාවට ඇවිත් අකුරු හදන්න උනන්නලා අකුරු වැල් කීපයක් එලියට ආවා. අනුරාධලා ඊට කලින් යුනිකෝඩ් වෙලා තිබුණාලු.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ucsc හර්ෂ තමා ඒලඟ ප්‍රශ්නය විසදන්නේ වින්ඩෝස් දර්ශන යන්ත්‍රයක් හදලා. දැන් මයිකෝඉමේජ් හා කපුටා යතුරු ධාවකත් එනවා. ඒත් තවම සිංහල ලියවීමක් නෑ. gov.lk එක සිංහල‍ වෙන්නේ මේ කාලේමයි. ඒකට එක ෆෝන් කෝල් එකයි ආවේ. "සති දෙකකින් සිංහල/දෙමළ යුනිකෝඩ් ව‍ලින් gov.lk එක ඕනේ" කියන්නේ වසන්ත. අපිටත් උණනේ, දිවා රෑ නොබලා හැදුවා. හැබැයි gov.lk එක කවදාවත් සද්දේ දාලා&lt;br /&gt;දියත් වුනේ නෑ. අපිට ඒක රජ්ජුරුවන්ට කරන රාජකාරියක් වගේ උනා. ප්‍රතිලාභ ලැබුණත් නැතත් බැණුං අහ අහ වැඩ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහය ආරම්භ වෙනකොට මට ජී මේල් එකතුත් නෑ. යාහූ තමා. තුසිත gov.lk එක හදන්න හදපු යුනිරෝමන් තමා ඒ කාලේ භාවිතය. ටිකක් ලියන්න ඒක ඇති. මේ වෙනකොට බරපතල වැඩ‍ක් යුනිකේතයෙන් කෙරිලා තිබුනා. ඒ තමා ucsc වචන 70000 ලියලා පෙන්නුවා. මේ කාලයේම ශිල්ප සයුර සැලසුම් වෙන්නේ gov.lk අත්දැකීම් මත. අපට ටිකක් බයත් තිබුනා. ඒත් කොන්වර්ටර්ස් එහෙම ලියාගත්තට&lt;br /&gt;පස්සේ ටිකක් බය අඩුවුනා. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ගැන කථා කරන්න තිබුණේ භෞතික හමුවීම් විතරයි. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහය පිහිටවන එක ගැන මම ඉස්සෙල්ලම කතාකළේ රමේෂ්&lt;br /&gt;තිරුචෙල්වම්ට, සිංහල කියලා දාලා හිත රිදේවිද බලන්න. ඉස්සෙල්ලම එයා, ඊලඟට තුසිත, වසන්ත දේශප්‍රිය හොඳ දහිරියක් දුන්නා, යුග මෙහෙවරක් ආරම්භ වුණා සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහය සාහිත්‍යයෙන් රසවත් වෙන්නේ අනුරාධගේ ආගමනයෙන්, ලක්ෂාන්, දසුන්, සපුමල්,බුද්ධික සහ තවත් අය සිංහල යුනිකේතය වර්ණවත් කලා,රකාරාංශ ප්‍රශ්නය විසඳුනා. යුනිරයිටර්, සිංග්ලිෂ්, ගාර්ප් හැදුනා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පොඩි විජේ ගැන පවා කතා කලා, තාක්‍ෂණිකයින්ට සීමාවූ යුනිකෝඩ් අනිත් අයටත් ගියා. සිංහල වචන සදන විකිය පටන් ගන්නේ අනුරාධ, ඊට පස්සේ අනිත් තැන් ව‍ලත් ඒක පටන් ගත්තා. ඒ වැඩේ අන්තිමේදි අල වූ බව නම් කිය යුතුයි. ඒක මුල සිට නැවත හරියට පටන් ගන්න වෙනවා. සෝඩා බොතලය වගේ යමක් පටන් ගත් විටම, බුබුලු දමා දිවුවට නියම සැලසුමක් හා ප්‍රජා මූලික නායකත්වයක් නැතිව සමහට දේ අඩපණ වෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fonts.lk යුනිකේතයට විශාල සේවයක් කලා, සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ්.org හැදෙන්නේ සිංහල තාක්‍ෂණ දැනුම අඩවියක් වෙන්න.&lt;br /&gt;ඒක තමා සිංහලෙන් තිබුණු යුනිකෝඩ් පෙර පාසළ, එතකොටම සියබස් ආවා, ඒ අවශ්‍යතාවය පිරිමැහුණා. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහයේ අදහස් තුලින් මේ වනවිට හුඟක් ව්‍යාපෘති පටන් අරන් තියනවා. සමහරක් තවම ප්‍රජාගත වී නෑ. ඒ ගැන නැචත සිතනවා නම් හොඳයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ඉලක්ක ප්‍රජාවට ලඟා නොවීමට හේතුව ප්‍රායෝගික ගැටලු, ඒවාට විසඳුම් ගමන යන ගමන් මිස පටන් ගන්න කොට නෑ, අඹ ගහට වදින්න හඳට ගහන්න කියා මංජු හත්තොටුව කීවේ ඒකයි. අඹ ගහට නැගලාම ගෙඩිය කඩා ගැනීම වඩා ෂුවර් කියා මට හිතෙනවා දැං.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල යුනිකේතය ප්‍රචාරණය සඳහා අවශ්‍යතාවයක් ගොඩ නැගෙද්දී අප යම් නායකත්වයක් ලබා දුන්නා. නමුත් එය කෙනෙකුට පෙනුනේ වෙනස් අයුරකට. සමහර ඒවා පෞද්ගලික ජීවිතයටද බලපාන තරම් බලවත් උනා. මිතුරන් රැසක් යුනිකේතයෙන් ලැබීම භාග්‍යක් උනාට හමවූ මිතුරන් පස මිතුරන් වීම හොඳ දෙයක් නොවුනද, සමාජයේ ඉදිරියෙන් සිටීමේදී හමුවන ගැටළු ලෙස ඒවා උපේක්‍ෂාවෙන් දරා ගැනීමට අප පුරුදු වූවා. භෞතික සමූහ ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වයද ඉන් අඩපණ වූයේ නෑ. මේ අපේ කතාව වගේ වෙනත් කතාද ඇති. හුඟක් අය අප සමග දායක වූවා. සමහරක් අප නොදැන.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල තාක්‍ෂණය තුල යුනිකොඩ් කියන්නේ පහලම තොරතුරු පදනම. ඒ මත තමා සියලු ක්‍රියාකාරීකම් ඇතිවන්නේ. ඒ නිසා අපගේ එදිනෙදා වැඩවලට සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් වල භාවිතය තීරණාත්මකයි. අප කලේ මේ තීරණාත්මක සාධකය අත්‍යවශ්‍ය සාධකයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කිරීමට මුල් වීම පමණයි. ඉන් අප ලද මූල්‍යමය ලාභයක් නැතත් ලද සමාජමය ප්‍රතිලාභ අගය කරනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දැන් අපගේ සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ප්‍රජාවට ගෙන යාමේ කාර්ය භාරය අවසානයි කියා අප සිතනවා. අපෙන් මුවහත් වූ ප්‍රජාවම නව එම කාර්යයට අත ගසා ඇති බැවින් නැවත හිදැසක් ඇතිවන්නේ නෑ. අන්තර්ජාලයේ දැන් සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් ස්ථාපිතයි. අප දැරූ බරින් නිදහස් වන්නට අපට කාලය හරි. දැන් අප සිටි මට්ටමෙන් වෙනත් ත‍ලයකට මාරු වීම පමණකි. එකම දේ එක දිගට කිරීම පෙර ගමන් කරුවකුගේ ලක්‍ෂණය නොවේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අපට කල යුතු වෙනත් වැඩ තිබෙනවා. ඒ නිසා මේ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ සිට නවතම මගකට යොමුවීමට සිතනවා. සිතේ සතුට ප්‍රධාන කොටගත් ජීවිතයකට පිවිසීම ඉන් ප්‍රධානයි. පැය ගණන් පරිගණක තිරයට එබී අන්තර්ජාලයේ හා තාක්‍ෂණයේ ගතකළ අපූරු නොවන දිවිය වෙනුවට වඩා සමාජයට ඵලදායක ලෙස කාලය භාවිතා කිරීමට අපට දැන් කාලයයි. භෞතික ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය තුලින් පහලම ප්‍රජාවට සැලසෙන සේවයට මුල් තැන දෙන වැඩක් වීම අනිවාර්යයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් පෙර ගමන් කරුවන්ට අපගේ සුභ පැතුම් පිළිගැන්වීමටද මේ වේලාවයි. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ ලිපිය අවසාන වන්නේ මා ඉතාමත් ආදරය කරන මේ ගීතයෙන්. &lt;br /&gt;ඉන් අනතුරුව චුත වීමට කාලයයි!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ආදරයේ ඔබ ඔබමය&lt;br /&gt;ඔබ මා නොව&lt;br /&gt;මා ඔබ නොව&lt;br /&gt;දවසක්දා&lt;br /&gt;හඳුනාගත්තොත් ඔබ මා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සැමට සුභ අළුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vishwakala.org/"&gt;http://www.vishwakala.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aba.lk/"&gt;http://www.aba.lk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rala.info.lk/"&gt;http://rala.info.lk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.queen.lk/"&gt;http://www.queen.lk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dv.info.lk/"&gt;http://dv.info.lk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://peradiga.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://peradiga.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sinhalaunicode.org/"&gt;http://www.sinhalaunicode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode"&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-2808054966226135286</id><published>2008-04-08T17:55:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-08T17:57:17.948+05:30</updated><title type='text'>අවුරුදු කුමාරි : ෂඃ මටත් පේන හීන</title><content type='html'>අවුරුදු කුමාරිට පසු වදනක්&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-20T05%3A33%3A00%2B05%3A30&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-20T05%3A33%3A00%2B05%3A30&amp;amp;max-results=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මම අන්තර්ජායට ගැලපෙන අලුත් ශෛලියකට ලියන්න උත්සාහ කරන්නේ. කතාව ලියන්න කලින් දවස්, සති, මාස ගණන් ආකෘති හිතනවා. වේගයෙන් පැය දෙකෙන් ලියලා,මගේ කතාවලට අකමැති කාටහරි පෙන්නලා, එක පාරක් එඩිට් කරනවා. සමහරකට එය රසවත් වීම ගැන සතුටුයි. සමුහරු මේ කථාව කියවා අඬලා තියෙනවා. කෙනෙක් ඇහුවා ඔහොම ලියන්නේ කොහොමද කියලා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මා නිතරම උත්සාහ කරන්නේ වචනයකින් අදහසකට වඩා රූපයක් මවන්න. ඊට හේතුව රූපය වඩා හොඳින් තේරෙනවා. කතාචේ චරිත කීුයයි,. කෙටි දෙබස්. කියවන පාඨකයාට හිතන්න මවාගන්න දේ ගොඩයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මම ලියනකොට වචන නෙවේ ලියන්නේ, රූප තමා හිතට එන්නේ, ටිකක් හැඟීම් බරයි, මම මේ වනවිට කෙටි කථා කීපයක්ම ලියා තිටෙනවා. දෙකක් ටිකක් අදහස් අනුවර්ථන. තව දෙකක් විතර ලියන්නට හිතේ කැරකෙනවා. වෙසක් එකට කතාවක් ලියන්න හිතන් ඉන්නවා, තාම බීජයක් පැළ උනේ නැහැ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පොසොන් වලට නම් අදහසක් දැම්ම තියෙනවා. අන්තිමේදී පොතක් වගේ පළකරන්න පුලුවන් පාඨකයෝ වැඩි උනොත්. එතකොට මම "අහවලා" නැමති කෙටි කතා රචකයා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මගේ පොතක් පුස්ථකාලෙක අපි ආසාවෙන් කියවපු පොත් අතර තිබ්බොත්!&lt;br /&gt;ෂඃ මටත් පේන හීන.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පරණ කෙටිකතා පළවුනේ &lt;a href="http://www.queen.lk/"&gt;http://www.queen.lk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/R_G4VkCw2NI/AAAAAAAAADo/Kl9ThDxERY4/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.swordsandarmor.com/images/H-910914-RD_Roman_small.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එකම කාලය ග්‍රීසිය සහ ලංකාව ඉතිහාසයේදී වෙනස් වෙන්න ඇත්තේ මේ විදියට වෙන්න ඇති. මේ පුංචි වෙනස අවබෝධ කරගත්තාම හරි. ලංකාව දාලා යන අය ගොඩක් කියන්නේ ලංකාව හරි නෑ කියලා. ඒ වුනාට අපිට ලංකාව රන් මලක්, පින් බිමක්, පුද බිමක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අපි තාක්‍ෂණය අරගන ගමට ගියාම ඔවුන්ගේ මට්ටමට එනවා. අපි දන්න උපරිම දේ ඔවුනට සැර වැඩියි. ටික ටික තමා අප්ග්‍රේඩ් කරන්නේ. ඒ ක්‍රමය හරි. ටික ටික ගෙවන්න යමක් ගන්නවා වගේ ටික ටික තමා ප්‍රජා තාක්‍ෂණ ගමන යන්න වෙන්නේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පණ්ඩිතානංච සේවනා කිව්වාට පණ්ඩිතයින්ට ඒ දණ්ඩේ යන්න බෑ කියලා කතාවක් හැදුනේ සුදු මහත්තයෙක් සපත්තු දාලා ඒ දණ්ඩේ ගිය නිසාද කියලා මට හිතෙනවා. සමහර සුදු මහත්තුරු සිංහලයෝ දකින්නේ විකටයින් විදියට. හරියට පින්කරලා දිව්‍ය ලෝකේ ගියාම තමන් එක්ක හිටපු මනුස්සයින්ට දෙවිවරු හිනා වෙනවා වගේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"සිහි බුද්ධියෙන් කෙලින් හිටගෙන “බනින්නන්” දෙස විමසිලිමත්ව බැලූවහොත් ඒ ඇණුම් බැනුම්, තෙපරබෑම් සහ ගතුකීම් වැඩිහරියක් කුහකකම,ඉරිසියාව, අවස්ථාව නො ලැබීම, හීනමානය, ජනප්‍රියකම අඩුවීම, නූතන සමාජය විසින් ගණන් නො ගැනීම, මුදල් ප්‍රශ්න, ගෙදර ප්‍රශ්න, ලිංගික ප්‍රශ්න, අහිමිවීම් ආදී මනෝ ව්‍යාධි තුළ ගිලී ගිය ඒවා බව පැහැදිලි ය. එහෙත් මේ මනෝ ව්‍යාධිය සමාජ ප්‍රකාශනයක් වන්නේ සිවිල් කටකින් නිසාත්, මුද්‍රිත අත්අකුරු වලින් නිසාත්, මාධ්‍ය හරහා නිසාත්, පොත් දොරට වැඩීම් සහ “සංවාද” නැති කතිකාවත් හරහා නිසාත් ඒවා සමාජගත වන විට දිගුකාලීන මනෝ ව්‍යාධිය තාවකාලික බලයක් වී සමාජගත වේ."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;උපුල් ශාන්ත සන්නස්ගල - ආලවක නරක නෑ රාළගේ පොතින්&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rala.info.lk/?p=28"&gt;http://rala.info.lk/?p=28&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ රාළගේ සිංදු පොතට සන්නස්ගල ලිවූ ලිපියක ගත යුතු යමක් තියනවා කියලා මට හිතෙනවා. අපේ රටේ දේචල් හෑල්ලු කරන, යාලු වී වැඩ අවුල් කරන, පිටරට දේම අගයන කාටත් කියවීම සුදුසුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අනුන්ට පෙර තමන් තුලට එබී හිස් බව වටහා ගැනීමට මිනිසුන් හට හැකි වේවා.&lt;br /&gt;යමක් ආක්‍රමණය කර නොව ආදරයෙන් ලබාගත හැකිබව අවබෝධ වේවා.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7119665516978262193?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7119665516978262193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=7119665516978262193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659371944123310622/posts/default/7119665516978262193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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නිරන්තර බාධක සහිත මගක වැටී තිබෙන නිසාය. අප යන දිශාව වැදගත් වන්නේ සමහර ගමන් ආපසු හැරිය නොහැකි බැවිනි. අපසු හැරීමට වඩා යම් ගමනක් පටන් නොගැනීම වැදගත් එබැවිනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අන්තර්ජාලය විවිධ චරිත පිරි අභෞතික සමාජයකි. නානාවිධ වෙස් ගත්තෝ බොහෝය. අන්තර්ජාලයේ අප දිවෙන් දිව ගාගන්නේ යම් දිනක අපට නින්දා කරන්නෙකු සමග විය හැක. මේ නිසා වැඩක් පටන්ගත යුත්තේ විශ්වාසවන්ත මිනිසුන් සමගය. එවිට වැඩය කෙරේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.shilpasayura.org/in/sokari2/DSC_1360.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;වැඩක් කර පෙන්වීම වැඩක් කිරීමට ඇති එකම මග බව අයින්ස්ටයින් කියා ඇත. වැඩක් කිරීමට විවිධ ක්‍රම වේද තිබෙන බව දන්නේ වැඩක් කළ මිනිසුන්ය. ඒ ක්‍රමවේදයන් අතර සාමුහික සමූහයක් ගොඩනැගීමට ආයතනික ව්‍යුහයක් තිබීමද එකකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ප්‍රජා සේවය අද වෘත්තිමය බවට පත්වී තිබේ. රතු කුරුස , ඇපාචි අපේ ගමේ මරණාධාර සමිතිය නම් උදාහරණය. ප්‍රජා සේවයේ යෙදී සිටින්නෝ එය තම යුතුකම ලෙස සළකති.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;තම යුතුකම ගැන සිතන සමූහයක් එකතු වීම ප්‍රජා සේවා සමූහයක ආරම්භයයි. සමූහයක් ලෙස සමාජයේ කටයුතු කිරීමට ක්‍රමවේද සමාජයේම තිබේ. ප්‍රජා සමූහයක් ලියාපදිංචි වීම යනු තම කාර්යය පිළිබඳ නීතිමය වගකීමක් දැරීමට එකඟ වීමයි. එය වගකීමකින් වැඩ කිරීම පිළිබඳව පළවෙනි පියවරයි. එක දවසක "වරෙල්ලා මචං" ශ්‍රමදානයක් දීර්ඝ කාලීන වැඩ පිළිවෙළකින් වෙනස් වන්නේ එහෙයිනි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අනාගතයට කැපූ පාරවල් නැත. අප තියන පියවර මත හැදෙන අඩි පාරවල් අනාගතයේ පාරවල් වේවි. බොරුවක් නම් දුවිල්ලෙන් මැකී යාවි. ඉතිහාසය එක දවසකින් ලිවිය නොහැක. ඉතිහාසයක් තිබෙන අය එය දනිත්. මේවා තේරුම් ගැනීමට නොහැකිවන්නේ ප්‍රජා අත්දැකීම් හිඟ විටය.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;අතීතයේ බෙහෙත් හල් නඩත්තු කළේ ජල බද්දෙන් කොටසකිනි. ප්‍රජා සේවා ආයතන මිනිසුන්ට රැකියාද සපයයි. ලෝකයං බොහෝ දෙනා ප්‍රජා ආයතන වල වැටුප් ලබා රැකියාව කරති. එම වැටුපෙන් කොටසක් බැංකුවේ දැමීම ලාභය නොවේද ? එය වාණිජද ? ප්‍රජාද ? දෙකමද ? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;වැඩක් කිරීමට ඇති එකම මග එය කර පෙන්වීම පමණකි යනු අයින්ස්ටයින් කියා තිබේ. කරගන වැඩකට අකුල් හෙලීම නම් එකට වැඩක් කිරීමට බැරිකම බව අපට කීමට තිබේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ප්‍රජාවට වැඩ කිරීමේ අත්දැකීම් ගැන මුළ ඉඳන්ම දැනගන්න බලන්න මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shilpasayura.org/"&gt;http://www.shilpasayura.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;චැටුප් පවා නොගෙන මේ වගේ දේවල් වලට සහභාගී වීමට ලැබුණ එකත් වාසනාවක්.&lt;br /&gt;එය වටිනා දේකට කාලය ගත කලා වෙනවා. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;මේ කතාව ඈවරයි දැවරයි තුන් ඈවරයි!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-7758012340765791104?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://groups.google.com/group/Sinhala-Unicode' title='වාණිජද ? ප්‍රජාද ? දෙකමද ? - අනාගතය දෙස හොරැහින් බැලීම'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/7758012340765791104/comments/default' 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/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aba.lk/crew_suminda.htm"&gt;http://www.aba.lk/crew_suminda.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අබා පෙර පටියේ (ට්‍රේලරයේ) ඔහුගේ කැමරා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂණය ටිකක් පේනවා. නිශ්චල චායා රූප තුලින් මා දකින්නේ අන්තිම ඉහල‍ ගණයේ ආලෝකණයක්. ඒ සුමින්දගේ එක් දක්‍ෂතාවයක්.&lt;br /&gt;හඳුනාගන්න ජාතෘන්තර මට්ටමේ සිටින ලංකාවේ සිනමා දක්‍ෂයෙක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://media.aba.lk/photos/coup/big/DSCF4874.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;අප සුමින්ද නම් කැමරා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක හඳුනාගන්නේ අබා තුලින්&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;අබා ට සහ ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනිගේ සිනමාවට අපි එකතුවූයේ වසර ගණනාවක්, විවිධ රසයෙන් ඔහු අප පිනවූ අයකු නිසා. ඔහු සමග තාක්‍ෂණ වැඩකිරීම ඉතා හොඳ සතුටක්. අපට හුඟක් වෙනස් සිනමා දැනුම ලැබෙනවා. ඉල්ලීම් ඉහලයි,හොඳ දේ අගය කරනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.aba.lk/"&gt;http://media.aba.lk/&lt;/a&gt; හි සේයා රූ දැනට 225, අපට සේයා රූ ඩීවීඩී 4 ක් ලැබිලා තියෙනවා, ලංකීය ධනාත්මක සිනමාවේ මේ ඇතිවන්නට යන නවෝදයට දායක වන්නට ලැබීමට අකමැත්තෝ ඇත්ද? රටට වැඩක් වෙන වැඩක් නිසා අපටත් වැඩක්. අබා එන විට සිංහල යුනිකේතයත් හරි ගිහින් තියන හැටු බලන්න ! අපට ඒ ගැන කතා කරන්න පුලුවන්. ලෝක සිනමාවේ සංවාදය පටන්ගන්නේ මුහුරත් එකෙන්.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://media.aba.lk/photos/jackson/big/DSC_0070-copy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-8669632864937546571?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/8669632864937546571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659371944123310622.post-4767013034929911636</id><published>2008-03-28T14:15:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-03-28T14:22:11.116+05:30</updated><title type='text'>අබා හි නිශ්චල සේයා රන් රාමු රස විඳීම</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.aba.lk/photo_ico.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://media.aba.lk/photo_ico.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; සිනමාවක අග්ගිස්ස නම් චිත්‍රපටි ශාලාවක සිට නරඹන්නාය. නරඹන්නා පිනවීමට විවිධාකාරයෙන් දායක වන මිනිසුන් රැසකි. සැබෑ නිර්මාණයක් බිහිවන්නේද ඒ සහභාගී වන මිනිසුන් හරහාය. එය සැමදාම මිනිසුන් අගය කල කටයුත්තක් වී ඇත. කලාවක් රසවිඳීමේ හැකියාව ගොඩනගාගැනීම ද හැකියාවකි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අප කරන්නේ සිනමාව ඒමට පෙර ඒ හැඩතල වලින් අබා වියුණ සැරසීමය. ආවාට පසු එය බලාගත හැකියි. මීට කලින් මාලනී , රවීන්ද්‍ර, ශ්‍රියන්ත, සබීතා ආදී රංගධර රුවෙන් මෙලෙස අන්තර්ජාලය සැරසී නැත.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ චායාරූප චිත්‍රපටියේ කැමරාවේ නෙගටිව් වලින් නොවේ. සිනමා නිශ්චල ඡායාරූපකරණය ද වෙනම කළාවකි. එහි ෆ්ලෑෂ් තහනම්ය. පොයින්ට් ඇන්ඩ් ෂූට් බැරිය. රූප රාමුද තරමක් වෙනස් කෝණයකිනි. චලනය උකහා නොගනී. නමුත් තත්වය ඉතා උසස්ය. අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක රෑප රාමු ලෙස මුලින්ම දකින්නේ මේවාය.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.aba.lk/photos/wedumgeya/DSCF5314.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://media.aba.lk/photos/wedumgeya/DSCF5314.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;නමුත් ඉතා ලංව රංග කලාවේ අතිදක්‍ෂයින් වන වසන්ත විට්ටච්චිගේ වේශ නිරූපනය, සුබෝධගේ කළා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂණය, නලු නිළි රුව, ආංගික අභිනය, සුමින්දගේ ආලෝකණය, සහභාගී වූ 600 කට අධික මිනිසුන්, රූගත කළ පරිසරයන් ආදිය 12000 කට අධික රූප රැසක්. සිනමාවේ රූගත කිරීම් වල අඩුපාඩු හොයන්නේ මේ රූප වලින්, හැමදාම ඒවා මුද්‍රණය කරලා සෙට් එකට ගේනවා. ඒකත් පණ යන වැඩක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;එවායින් හොඳම ඒවා තෝරා, රන් රාමු සොයා, කපා, හැඩකර, මතුකර, කුඩා කර අන්තර්ජාලයටත්, මාධ්‍යන්ටත් නිකුත් කරන එය එක දවසට දෙපාරක් පණයන වැඩක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ සමහර රූප රාමු අපි චිත්‍රපටියක දකින්නේ නෑ, සුමින්දගේ කැමරාවෙන් ගත් රූප රාමු හුඟක් කැපෙනවා සංස්කරණයෙන්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සංස්කරණය නොකල චිත්‍රපටිය පැය අටහමාරක් නෙගටිව් පටිවලින්ම, පැය එක හමාරකට එය අඩුකරන්නේ රවීන්ද්‍ර ගුරුගේ. ඊට පස්සේ දෙබස් කැවීම සහ අනිත් දේ. දැවැන්ත කතාවකදී මෙය මහා විශාල වැඩක්. ඒත් සමහර චිත්‍රපටි මාසෙනුත් හැදිලා තියෙනවා. කතාව හා දෙබස් පමණයි. අබාහි වැදගත් රූප රාමු, ඒ කාලය නැවත ප්‍රතිනිර්මාණය කිරීමට ගත් රූපමය උත්සාහයක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අපි මේ කථා කරන්නේ ක්‍රි.පූ. පස්වන සියවස හරිය, ලංකාවට බුද්ධාගම ඇවිත් නෑ, යකඩ කර්මාන්තය තිබුනා, මිනිස්සු ඇඳුම් ඇන්දා, පළවෙනි වැවත් හැදුවේ පණ්ඩුකාභය, මිනිසුන් ගතකළේ ගෝත්‍රික ජීවිත, ඒ රූපමය අත්දැකීම දැකපු කවුරුත් නෑ දැන්, ජැක්සන්ගේ සිතිවිලි මේ වගේ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.aba.lk/"&gt;http://media.aba.lk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;කලාවට කැමති අයට&lt;br /&gt;දැනට රස විඳින්නට තියෙන දේ තමා මේ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;තම නිර්මාණයෙන් එලියට එන විවිධ දේ ගැන ඇතිවන අන්තර්ජා‍ලයේ සංවාදයක් ඇතිවීමත්, ඒ සංවාදය තමන් අගයන සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් කියවීමට ලැබීමත්, ඉන් තම නිර්මාණය දියුණු කරගැනීමට ලැබෙන අවස්ථාවත් ජැක්සන් ලද භාග්‍යක්, මෙන්න කැට අබා ලංකාවේ අංක 1 ආදායම් වාර්ථා තියන චිත්‍රපටිය බවට පත් වෙන බවට, මීට පුථම එසේ වූ චිත්‍රපටිය නම් "සරෝජා". ඊටත් අප වියුණක් තනා දුන්නේ හොඳ දේ අගය කරන නිසායි. අබා අපටත් හොඳ අත්දැකීමක්. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3659371944123310622-4767013034929911636?l=niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://niranjanmeegammana.blogspot.com/feeds/4767013034929911636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3659371944123310622&amp;postID=4767013034929911636' title='0 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href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/R-GqbECw2LI/AAAAAAAAADU/7qF1krjhSOc/s1600-h/india_tour.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ආයුබොවන් !&lt;br /&gt;ඔබට මතක ඇති අපි කපුටා 2.0 සංකල්පය පිළිබඳව සංවාදයක් කළා, 100% නැති උනත් ඒ සංකල්ප තරමක් යොදාගන කරපු තවමත් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම නිමි නැති විශ්වකලා.org අඩවිය පිළිබඳව ඔබගේ සිත යොමු කරනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.shilpasayura.org/unidata/m82/2/0/2/p412ic1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ජූනි මාසයේදී ලෝක දැනුම් අඩවියක් ලෙස නිර්මාණය සංකල්පමය හා තොරතුරු වශයෙන් ඔබට නව අත් දැකීමක් ගෙන දේවි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අත්විඳින්න &lt;a href="http://www.vishwakala.org/"&gt;http://www.vishwakala.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179609420508747970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xG0_Qd6pkUA/R-GrU0Cw2MI/AAAAAAAAADc/8BA1FQfogXg/s400/india_tour.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මීට ලියූ පසුවදන&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ශ්‍රී ලංකිකයින් වන අපට නව මගක් මින් පෙන්වාදෙන්නට කැමතියි, එනම් අපගේ දැනුම හා හැකියාවන් මගින් ලෝක දැනුම් ආර්ථිකයට (Global Knowledge Economy) සම්බන්ධ වීමට, අයාලේ යන දේට වැය කරන කාලය යොමු කර ඔබටත් මෙවැනි K4D නිර්මාණයකට සහභාගී වන්නට හෝ ආරම්භච කරන්නට පුලුවන්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සිංහල, ඉංග්‍රීසි හා ඉන්දු භාෂාවෙන් වැඩ කරන මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය තවම ලදරුවෙක් නමුත් ඉන්දියාවේ කලාව,ගෘහ නිර්මාණ,පුරාවිද්‍යාව සහ ඉතිහාසය හදාරන්නන්ට ඉතා වැදගත් වන පරිදි නිර්මාණය වුනා. ලංකාවේ උසස් පෙළ/සරසවි තුල‍ ඉන්දීය ඉතිහාසය පුමුඛ විශයක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;දැනට චායාරූප 7000 ආසන්නච අඩංගුයි, එය 15000 දක්වා දියුණුවේවි. මෙහි විශේෂත්වය කුඩා ආදායම් තිරසාර භාවය මත සැකසීමයි (Micro Revenue Sustainability). ච්‍යාපෘතියට සහභාගීවන අය අතර ආදායම් බෙදී යනවා. සාමුහික ලෝක ප්‍රජාවක් බැවින් ඉතා ඉක්මනින් වර්ධනය වෙනවා. මේ අඩවිය Creative Commons 3.0 මතයි සැකසෙන්නේ, නමුත් සහභාගී සමුහයට ආදායම් ලැබෙන විදියට. ඉන් තිරසාරබව ලඟාකරගන්නවා. මේවා තනිවම හො වාණිජ මට්ටමෙන් කළ හැකි වැඩ නොවේ. ටිකක් විතර විකී වගේ, ඊට වඩා හුඟක් වෙනස්, ලංකාවෙන් හැදෙන ක්‍රම වේදයක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මෙහි යෙදී ඇති තාක්‍ෂණය ඉතාම සරළයි. වැදගත් කොට සැලකෙන්නේ තොරතුරයි. (content centric vs Technology Centric). නමුත් තොරතුරු මිලියනයක් හෝ දක්වා යා හැකි මුදුකාංග සැලසුමක් ( Archetecture) SQL දත්ත ගබඩාවක් මැදිකර ගොඩ නංවා ඇති බැවින්, දත්ත Web 2.0, Mobile, wso2 වැනි ක්‍රමවේද තුලින් ලබාගන්නට පුලුවන්. dotnet 2.0 , php, java ඕනේම මුදුකාංග සංවර්ධන පරිසරයකට භාවිතා කරන්න පුලුවන්. අපි මීට ආදරේට කියන්න කපුටා 2.0 සැලසුම (Archetecture)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;තාක්‍ෂණය කේන්ද්‍රීය වීම නිසා අචතැන් වෙන අතාක්‍ෂණික ප්‍රජාවට තොරතුරු කේන්ද්‍රීය කොටගත් ප්‍රජාව විසින් ප්‍රජාවගේ දැනුම වඩවන ගෝලීය ක්‍රමවේදයක්, K4D සම්මාන ලාභී ලංකාවෙන්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අප මෙවැනිම නමුත් මීට වඩා දැවැන්ත සිංහල K4D ව්‍යාපෘතියක් සැලසුම් කර තිබෙනවා සිංහලෙන්. ඊට අවශ්‍ය සම්පත් ලබාගැනුනු වහාම දිනක එහි වැඩ ඇරඹේවි. සියු සමූහයට එහි දැවැන්ත කාර්ය භාරයක් පැවරෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා අප දැනට අවශ්‍ය අඩිතාලම දමාගන තියෙනවා, සියලු ආකාරයේ බාදා කිරීම් මැද වුවත් අප යන ගමනේ ඉලක්කයන් වෙනස් වී නෑ. තාවකාලික පසුබෑම් K4D හි ලක්‍ෂණයක් (Exception Handling, Change Mangement, SWOT) තියෙන්නේ ඒවට. ඒ සඳහා අප ලෝකය සමග මෙන්ම අප අප අතරද අත්වැල් බැඳ ගැනීම කළ යුතුයි.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;සමූහය තුලින් හඳුනාගන දැනටමත් මේ මගට පිවිස අප සමග ඉතා ලඟින්ම කටයුතු කරණ ශක්තිමත් කණඩායමක් මේ පිටුපස සිටිනවා. තවත් අයට ඕනෑ තරම් අවස්ථා මේ වැඩ සටහන තුල තියෙනවා.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මා දකින පරිදි අප සමූහයේ සිටින සමහර මිතුරන් ලෝකයේ අති දක්‍ෂ අය අතරට වැටෙනවා. විශාල ගඟක් පටන් ගන්නේ දිය උල්පතකින්. එය පිරිසිදුයි, ගලායද්දී යමෙක් අපවිත්‍ර කළද, ගලන ගඟක් පිරිසිදු වෙනවා. එය බැමි බැඳ නවතන්න බෑ, බැමි කඩාගන ඉදිරියට යනවා. www.vishwakala.org ඊට උදාහණයක්. එය ඉතා විශාල කැපවීමක් තුළ කළ දෙයක්, ශිල්ප සයුරට තුලින් එය උපන්නේ. අප කපුටා පටන් ගත්තේ මෙහෙමයි, ඉතා සුලුවට, දැන් එය පුරාණයි හරියට අන්තර්ජාල පුරාවස්තුවක් වගේ අපට. ඒකයි අප එය වෙනස් නොකර අලුත් දේ නිර්මාණය කරන්නේ. ඒත් ආරම්භය එතන.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;මේ අඩවිය සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවටත් ප්‍රයෝජනචත් වේවි ඉන්දියාව දකින්න. ඊට වඩා අපගේ අදහස ලෝක බුද්ධි ප්‍රජාව වෙත දැනුම රැගෙන ලඟාවීමයි. කලාව අගය නොකරන අයට මින් වැඩක් නෑ. කලාව අගය නොකරන අය මට හමුවී නෑ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඔබට මෙය තාක්‍ෂණික අධ්‍යයනයට අවමව පැය දෙකක්වත් අවශ්‍යයි. තොරතුරු එකතු කරන්න සැහෙන කළක් ගියා ඒ නිසා මාස 3-4 ක් යාවි සම්පූර්ණයෙන් දැක විඳින්න.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;පෙර අග දර්ශනය පිළිබඳව තවම අවසාන තීරණයක් අරන් නෑ, නමත් කුඩා ළමයෙකුට පවා පහසුවෙන් භාවිතා කළ හැකි අයුරිනුයි නිර්මාණය වෙන්නේ. වසර 2 ක් තුල ලෝකයේ අගනාම නිර්මාණයක් බවට මෙය පත්කිරීමයි අපගේ අදහස. අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය නොවන හිස් දේ වෙනුවෙන් යෙදවෙන කාලය වැදගත් ලෙස යොදාගැනීමත් K4D සංකල්පයක්.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;අප සමග සිටින ඔබගේ ධෛර්යෙන් සහ සහයෙන් තමා මෙවැනි දේ නිර්මාණය වන්නේ. මෙවැනි ප්‍රථමාරම්භ මිල කළ නොහැකියි. ඉතිහාසය තමා ඊට වටිනාකමක් සපයන්නේ. දැනට සිංහල වියුණු සටහන් කීපයක් ඉතා හොඳ K4D ආරමභ ගෙන තිබෙනවා. ගණිතය වියුණ, සිංහල ෆොස් වියුණ, ජෝතිෂය වියුණ එනම් අපගේ පාරම්පරික දැනුම (indigenous knowledge), සාහිත්‍ය නිර්මාණ අඩංගු වියුණු සටහන්ද ඉතා හොඳ උදාහරණ. ඒ සෑම දෙයක්ම එකතු කරන K4D සංකල්පය අනුව අන්තර්ජාලයේ ඉදිරියෙන් සිටින්නේ දැනුම.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;෴&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;නිරංජන් මීගම්මන ගේ සිත් සටහන්&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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නිසා කකුල් හරිය තමා හැමදාම වහගන්නේ, මදුරුවෝ කනවට.සුමාලි ඇඳෙන් බැස්සට ලයිට් දැම්මේ නෑ, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;හඳ එලිය තාම ජනේලෙන් එළිය කරනවා, කුමාරි අක්කා තාම ගොරව ගොරවා නිදි, එහා ඇඳේ දෙන්නත් එහෙමයි. උන්නං ඔලුවටම පොරවාගෙන, රස්නේ ගාණක් වත් නෑ, මදුරුවන් කාලා කැතවෙනවට වෙන්නැති.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ඇඳන් අතර තිබ්බ පුංචි තීරුව දිගේ ඇවිදලා සුමාලි කාමරේ දොර ලඟට ආවා. වතුර ජෝගුව අරගන දොර ඇරියා. හඳ එළිය කාමරේට දෝර ගලාගෙන ආවා. හීන් හුළඟට දැනුනු හීතලට සුමාලි ඇඹරුනා, ඇත්තටම හතර දෙනෙක් ඉන්න කාමර කෑල්ලට වැඩිය එලිය කොච්චර හොඳද? ටැප් එක ඇරපු සුමාලි ජෝගුවට වතුර පුරවාගත්ත්ත, ටැප් එකෙන්ම අත තියලා 
