Japaneis Social workers met in Bandaranayake International Air Port

Mr. Michiya Tominaga/ Alexandra Gellin and their workers team visited in Sri Lanka, Past August. Here is some memorable pictures. They are here for 03 days workshop, held in several places in Kurunegala district to develop rural village women skills.

weCAN workshop for Telecentre Operators

in past Octomber 27 and 28, Telecentre family organized weCAN workshop for the telecentre operator who active participate with TCF in Sri Lanka.

it like a baby in 2005 " Telecentre Family in Sri Lanka "

View the opening ceromony

in year 2005 Sarvodaya and ICTA Sri Lnka with telecentre.org from Canada created Telecentre family network in Sri Lanka.

The important ceromony held at Sarvodaya Head Quaters. There have a some photos, and identifyed problums telecentre operator faced at their villeges.

This is the final session of this workshop. Dr. Harsha asked the group representatives to present the problem at which his or her group looked and explain the solutions with which they came up.

*** The problem we identified was the lack of participation by people. We have too little technology for the village. We decided that to get past this we need to give information about this through a printed document. We made a poster to present our work to the village. I told everyone that we would hand out the leaflet to every villager, but realized this was not practical. Instead we should distribute it to a targeted group. Our team has more participants from the “Virtual Village” project and so we actually looked at the question from only a narrow viewpoint so I think we need to address a broader spectrum.


*** The problem we addressed was that neither we nor our Telecenters are developed enough. Our poster has a bird flying at the top. This is to represent how we would progress. We need to create this development and through it, develop the people

*** IT is not at the required level of development and we lack media exposure. We decided that we really need to use the TV and radio for this and distribute leaflets and talk at schools. We need to go to villages and talk about it. We can’t really access the TV and radio by ourselves so we have to really get our mother institutions, Sarvodaya or something else, involved with this process. Also, it is important that all Telecenter operators do this publicity work at the village level through things like leaflets.

*** Our problem was that people do not know how to use IT for their daily needs. I explained a lot to people about what we meant by daily needs. I think the best way is to improve the knowledge of the villagers about this.

Asa

2008/11/02