Senaka Warnasuriya's Page

The SLR's web site developed jointly by SLR and ICTA provides valuable and timely information about Sri Lanka's Train operations to the general public.

It extends following information and services.

* Train times and railway fairs needed by general public.
* Special passenger services provided by SLR.
* Info. about Goods and Parcel transportation.
* Info. about Train delays.
* Downloading Railway forms required for obtaining Railway services.

The web site can be accesed using… Continue

Telecentre 2.0 is a general model of a mature telecentre that does away with the need for any further piloting of telecentres as a development mechanism.
Telecentre 2.0 exists in the telecentre ecosystem, a network of telecentres, information providers and support institutions.

Policy
Telecentre 2.0 is an instrument for achieving national e-inclusion, which goes beyond mere access to technology and addresses the underlying socio-economic disparities of the poor and under-served.
e-Inclus… Continue

The role of telecentre networks in addressing sustainability challenges; (Extracted from SustainabilityFirst.org)

Since the individual telecentres are generally isolated, it is important to network them. The networks can play an important role in addressing the gaps and the challenges.
The networks are mainly driven by the need to fill the gap that the individual telecentres cannot do on their own (Sulah).

Networks can take up the responsibility of content generation since… Continue

Guiding Principles

Three points are very important to start Rural Knowledge Centres, based on our
experience:

First, it is a people-centred programme based on community ownership. The
community as a whole must endorse it.

Second, it must take into account the local context and the information needs of
the local people. Only then it can provide useful demand-driven services.
Although we may use a variety of technologies in gathering and reaching the
in… Continue

Open ICT4D


The world is changing and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are powerful contributors to this change. Society is moving from an industrial model with vertical hierarchical structures to a networked society with increasingly horizontal organizational structures.

The change has been underpinned by the Internet and increasingly interconnected devices for computation and communication (such as mobile phones) that have greatly increased communication and colla… Continue