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Sri Lanka: Minister Thondaman, are you being led down the garden path?

Written by Chanuka Wattegama on April 5, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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Sustainability is not an issue for this telecenter. It provides all its service, be it Internet surfing, computer training, library facilities or even typesetting and printing services free of charge, treating them as community services. Thondaman Foundation, a non-profit organization, with a ministerial backing, that intends “to make available to the plantation community the wide [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged 3G, Broadband, Central, community services, Internet surfing, intranet communication technologies, Minister, printing services, Rs, Sri Lanka, Thondaman, Thondaman Foundation, Uva, Uva Province

Big picture of telecom reforms

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on November 7, 2004 — 7 Comments

Yesterday, I spoke to a large and restive crowd (made so by lack of air conditioning and a delayed start) in Matara (main city in the South of Sri Lanka) at the launch of the Pathfinder Foundation’s first book, a Sinhala translation of Janos Kornai’s Toward a free economy. I was asked to talk about [...]

Posted in Events | Also tagged adequate infrastructure, agricultural products, air services, America, American Midwest, Apollo Hospital, Asia, Austria, bank, banking, BPO, Broadband, broadband networks, chemicals, Chennai Apollo Hospital, China, Colombo, Communist government, computer-based information systems, electricity, fiber optic, Germany, hotel services, house-maid services, housemaid services, HSBC, html, Hungary, India, infrastructure, infrastructure services, intricate web, Ireland, Kandy, Kenya, kitchen equipment, LKR, low food prices, low-value-addition services, Maldives, microwave, Middle East, Milinda Moragoda, New York, niche applications, Northwestern, Pakistan, Parliament Road, Pathfinder Foundation, people wearing telephone headsets, Port of Colombo, Pramod Mahajan, Ranil Wickremesinghe, regional resource center, rubber, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, subsidized electricity, telecom services, telecommunications, telecommunications facilities, telecommunications supply, the Philippines, transport systems, ultra reliable telecommunications, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, VSNL Lanka, West Bengal, Wickremesinghe government

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