The government hopes to provide internet facilities to 30 percent of the country’s population and community-based broadband to all villages by 2015, the chief adviser’s press secretary Syed Fahim Munaim said on Sunday.
The press aide was briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting which passed the “National Broadband Policy 2008″.
Munaim said the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, in consultation with stakeholders, had finalised the policy with 11 clauses and guidelines for broadband to flourish in the country.
“The guidelines reveal that 30 percent of the country’s population will be brought under the internet by 2015. All universities, medical colleges, technical universities, research bodies, all ministries, autonomous and non-governmental organisations will have access to the net,” he said.
The press secretary also said e-governance facilities would reach Upazila levels by…
“I came more to learn from you; than to teach” was the message I passed before my two presentations with Sujata. Thanks Fusion/Telecentre.org for the opportunity. The three days spent with 200+ telecenter operators from eight provinces in Sri Lanka was a worthy investment. One does not interact with so many ground level ICT4D practitioners every day. It was a learning experience, for them; and for us.
From what I saw (and heard from others) the workshop, ‘weCAN: Social Enterprise with a Triple Bottom Line’ the second in the series of capacity building workshops of the Telecenter family of Sri Lanka was a grand success. Organized by Fusion/Telecentre.org (and funded by IDRC), we met at MIMT (MAS Institute of Management and Technology), Thulhiriya for four days…
Tags: food, Internet connectivity, Internet facilities, LKR, MAS Institute of Management and Technology, Noel Tharmarathnam, open-source software, operator/technology transition, pirated software, Sri Lanka, SRI LANKA RUN PIRATED PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE, telecenter operator, USD.
What is the correct computer literacy figure in Sri Lanka? Is there one figure? We ask this because we hear different answers.
According to HE the President of Sri Lanka it is pretty impressive at 25%. This what he said in the 60th Independence day speech as reported by Daily News the next day:
“We have given our nation every opportunity to link with the technologically developed world. We have been able to raise computer literacy in the country to 25% without trumpeting about it, in a country that did not attach much importance to it.”
(Relevant part of President speech is also available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7con4XljkSE)
The apex body for ICT related matters in Sri Lanka, Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) seems not in agreement with the President. It…
Free media Movement – Sri Lanka
Press Release
30 January 2007
Internet facilities and 8,000 telephones cut off in Jaffna Peninsula
The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply disturbed to learn that basic communications facilities to the Jaffna Peninsula have been blocked from 28th January 2007. Internet facilities and around 8,000 landline telephones of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) are dysfunctional to date. SLT, jointly owned by the Sri Lankan Government and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT) of Japan, is the sole Internet provider in Jaffna Peninsula with a population of around 600,000 according to official statistics.
The FMM was told that there is no official decision by the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to block communications in this manner in the Peninsula.
However, a number of citizens in Jaffna and journalists confirm…
Tags: basic communications facilities, basic telephony, Colombo, Free Media Movement, Internet, Internet access, Internet facilities, Jaffna, Jaffna peninsula, Japan, mobile phones, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lankan government, Sunanda Deshapriya, Sunil Jayasekara, Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, United Nations, www.freemediasrilanka.org.
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