Most Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers

The Global Search for the 100 Outstanding Telecentre Women Managers was implemented in partnership with the Asia Pacific Telecentre Network (APTN), the Latin America and Caribbean Network (LAC), the Eurasian Telecentre Network (ETN), the Middle East and North African Telecentre Network (MENA), NetAfrica, and Telecentre-Europe. It is a component of the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign, a joint initiative by the International Telecommunication Union and Telecentre.org Foundation.

වසරේ ලොව හොදම ටෙලිසෙන්ටර් ක්‍රියාකාරිනියන් 100 දෙනා තේරීමේ තරඟයෙන් තිස්සමාහාර නැණසල මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ ක්‍රියාකාරීණී අරුණි දීපීකා මහත්මියද එම 100 දෙනා අතරට තේරීපත්වීම අප තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසල මධ්‍යස්ථානය ලැබූ තවත් විශිෂ්ඨ ජයග්‍රහණයක් ලෙස සලකන්නේමු. මෙම තරඟයේදී අරුණි දීපිකා මහත්මියට ඔබගේ විද්‍යුත් ඡන්දය භාවිතා කරමින් මනාපය ලබා දුන් සියළුදෙනාටම මේ අවස්ථාවේදී තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසල හිමිකරු ලෙස ස්තුතිවන්ත වෙමි. තවද මෙම ජයග්‍රහණය ඇය විසින් පුරා වසර කිහිපයක් තුල නැණසල ව්‍යාපෘතිය යටතේ කන්දෙගම - වැළිගෙපළ හා තිස්සමහාරාම ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජාවට සිදුකල සේවය ඇගයීමක් ලෙසද හැදින්විය හැක.

තවදුරටත් නැණසල මගින් විශාල සේවයක් තම ප්‍රජාවට සිදුකිරීමට හැකිවේවායි ඇයට සුභපතන්නෙමු.



Nominee 20- Aruni Deepika

Added by Seuwandi Yapa on November 14, 2011 at 12:48pm

Age: 28 years old
Position at Telecentre: Telecentre Operator
Years in Service (at current telecentre): 4 years
Years in Service (at current position):4 years
City: Thissamaharamaya
Country: Sri Lanka

Telecentre/Employer Information

Name of Telecentre: Thissamaharamaya Nenasala
Country: Sri Lanka
Region: Asia-Pacific
Name of Nominating Individual/Entity: ICT Agency of Sri Lanka



Background:
Weligepola Kandegama Nenasala is the 256th Nenasala (telecentre) which was declared open by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa in year 2007. Kandegama Nenasala is located in an isolated and disconnected village in Balangoda district where most of the community lack ICT infrastructure and facilities. Implementation of a telecentre in the village of Kandegama was a benefit to the rural mass, as majority of the community was alienated to the subject of ICT and many had never seen a computer in their life.
Aruni Deepika, aged 28 is a village youth from Balangoda area. Deepika has completed her higher studies in Bio-science stream and soon after her studies she had followed IT programs such as Diploma in computer science, Higher Diploma in computer Science, Graphic Design and Auto Cad. Aruni has 5 siblings and her father is a planter and her mother is a house wife. Descending from a middle class family, Aruni was in search of avacancy that she could employ herself, earn some money and help her family. By the time she came across with a newspaper advertisement for a telecentre operator and she applied for the vacancy. Aruni’s educational qualifications and IT programs that she had followed helped her to get the vacancy and she joined Nenasala services by the year of 2008.
During the first phase of the Nenasala operations in Kandegama Nenasala, Aruni had to overcome many difficulties, basically encouraging the community to visit Nenasala. The community who were constrained by many difficulties due to lack of facilities available for them and who were much concerned about survival, had no interest on computers and internet and they were just questioned what ICT can do for them. Therefore, Aruni organized awareness raising campaigns in her village and she visited every household with the message that ICT facilities available at Nenasala can help the community to uplift their living standards. Further, she conducted free IT training programs for the students in the village and it had heavily influenced in creating a momentum among the community on using ICT by the grassroots in rural villages. Aruni could generate an enthusiasm among school students to learn ICT and she offered fair rates for the IT training classes making it available and applicable to a large group of students from the village.
As the Nenasala successfully completed two years of operations, Aruni could expand the Nenasala services to the remote villages as well. She teamed-up with the fellow Nenasala managers and operators in the area and organized leadership and personality development training camps for the village youth and IT workshops for the village students. Presently, Aruni is working as the Nenasala operator affiliated to Thissamaharama Nenasala in Thissamaharamaya in Southern part of the country.

Contribution to Digital Literacy and Community Development:

During her first tenure as a Nenasala operator at the Weligepola-kandegama Nenasala, Aruni rendered a great service for 3 years of period for the rural community in Kandegama by managing the Nenasala services. She was able to IT train the community who were constrained by social and economic difficulties. With the assistance obtained from the Grama Nilagadri (Village Head) and the midwife, Aruni was able to introduce IT for adults in the village as well.
Further she conducted IT training sessions for students and helping out the students who are not financially viable to afford the IT classes at Nenasala, by offered the scholarships and imposing fair and affordable rates. Aruni has benefited more than 250 village youth to complete their IT training programs and she has successfully conducted training sessions for the adults whose relatives are engaged as foreign labours. It has helped them to communicate between their families through the internet such as using Skype facilities. In addition Aruni was able to IT train and provide internet facilities to the 1500 school student with the financial assistance received from ICT Agency of Sri Lanka under the EVS (electronic voucher system) project. Over the past few years there are a great number of school students and youth using internet and IT though the Nenasala is a great achievement of 3 years of hard work done by the Aruni. Nenasala became a knowledge hub and a resource centre as most of the students visited Nenasala in search of information for their school projects and assignments. Nenasala became a well-known place in the village as Aruni made available the information service free of charge for the government officers including the doctors.
In successful completion of three years of service, Aruni was affiliated to the Thissamaharama Nenasala soon after her marriage. Continuing her Nenasla responsibilities, Aruni contributed her IT expertise in conducting an IT workshop for the small and medium entrepreneurs in the Thissamaharama area. The IT workshop for the (SMEs) introduced them how to use computers and computer applications for their record keeping purposes and accounting systems. Thissamaharamaya Nenasala conducts IT training courses as their main source of revenue generation. For the moment Thissamaharamaya Nenasala delivers government authorized computer diplomas as well. Working as an IT instructor at the Thissamaaramaya Nenasala, Aruni is a resource person at Nenasala as she is able to better deliver her services to the community.

Leadership, Partnership and Resource Mobilisation:
Aruni’s leadership and her capability in building partnerships and mobilising her resource is evident as she successfully carried out the Nenasala services in a rural area like Weligepola for 3 years and she could introduce the ICT to the community while improving the IT literacy among the village students. Aruni exposed her leadership not only in managing her Nenasala, also in working with follow Nenasalas as well. By considering Aruni’s successful operations in Nenasala, tremendous support and efforts to bridge the digital divide among grassroots, Aruni was appointed as the deputy secretary for the Nenasala society in Rathnapura district and as an executive member of the examination committee in the area as well. With her appointments, she became one of the leading Nenasala operators from the Ratnapura district who helped out to carry out Nenasala services and activities in the grassroots level.
In carrying out her Nenasala awareness campaigns, Aruni entered into partnerships with community based organizations and societies as it has the capacity to add more value and recognition to the Nenasala activities in the grassroots level. It has helped her making people convince on benefits of using ICT in their day today communication needs and rest of the activities. Further, entering into partnerships helped Aruni to mobilize her limited resources available at the Nenasala and to make use of them for the optimal benefits. Aruni has managerial skills in resource mobilization as she is capable of efficient and effective use of resources available. She employed her expertise in finalizing a resource mobilization plan for the Nenasala and she has always fulfilled her duties to the Nenasala while ensuring the effective use of Nenasala resources.
Aruni managed all the financial accounts and documents of the Nenasala activities and she used to keep records on all financial transactions which are really helpful in understanding the financial stability of the Nenasala and planning out future Nenasala activities. For instance, Aruni organized a leadership and personality development camp for 50 youths in the village of Weligepola. This program was organized as a 3 days of residential training camp and it required some financial resources to get ready with the initial preparations. In collecting funds, Aruni with the help from the village youth carried out a fund raising activity which they sold out book marks in the town. The funds that they collected were spent on hiring resource persons and lectures to conduct the youth camp.
Aruni is a role model to all the telecentre operators and managers in many ways. She is a courageous youth who does not wait till others come for her help, but she has the capacity to work with limited resources available. Added to that, she is a capable young entrepreneur who builds alliances with the community leaders and takes their support in launching telecentre services and activities. She has practiced good communication, negotiation skills and friendly and comfortable attitudes towards the rural community as she delivers telecentre services. Over 4 years of Nenasala experience, Aruni has developed her professional career as a Telecentre operator and she is a talented Nenasala operator who has rendered a great service to the community.

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විදුලි සංදේශ හා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යතුමන් නැණසල ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ගේ පළමු හමුව

විදුලි සංදේශ හා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ මාත්‍ය ගරු රංජිත් සියඹලාපිටිය මැතිතුමන්‍ෙග් පළමු නැණසල හිමිකරුවන්ගේ හමුව 2011 පුනි මස 04 වැනි දින හම්බන්තොට නගරසභා තානායමේදී පැවැත්විණි. මේ සදහා හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මන්ත්‍රි ගරු නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ද ද සහභාගී වු අතර තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන නියෝජිත ආයතනයේ නිළධාරීන් සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව/ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ටෙලිකොම් / විදුලි සංදේශ හා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ අමත්‍යාංශයේ නිළධාරීන් ද මාතර/ හම්බන්තොට/ මොණරාගල යන දිස්ත්‍රික්ක නියෝජනය කරන නැණසල මධ්‍යස්ථාන ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ද මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගී විය. උත්සව සභාව අමතමින් හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මන්ත්‍රි ගරු නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ නැණසල මඨ්‍යස්තාන ඇතුලු අනෙකුත් පරිගණක මධ්‍යස්ථාන වලින් පරිගණක තාක්ෂණය හා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණය හදාරන තරුණ තරුනියන් හට තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණය පදනම් කරගෙන මුදල් ඉපැයිය හැකි මාර්ගයන් සකස් කල යුතු බවයි. මේ සදහා ඔවුන් කැප වී ක්‍රියා කරන අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පළමුවැනි තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ ගම්මානය සුරියවැව ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රිඩාංගණය අසල ඉදි කිරීමට සියළු කටයුතු සලසා ඇති බවයි. තවද අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමණ්ගේ නැණසල ව්‍යාපෘතිය සාර්ථකව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සහය නිබදවම ලබා දෙන බවද පවසා සිටියේය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝක කුසලානය අභියස

2011 ලෝක කුසලාන ක්‍රිකට් තරඟාවලියේ අර්ධ අවසාන පුර්ව වටයට පැමිණිමට ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායම සමත්ව තිබේ. ආසියාතික කලාපයේ මෙවර තරඟාවලිය පැවැත්වෙන නිසා, තරඟාවළියේ වැඩි වාසි ආසියාතික රටවල් වන ඉංදියාව, පකිස්ථානය හා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවටත් හිමිව ඇත. මේ වන විටත් අවසන් කණ්ඩාම් 08 තුල මෙම රටවල් තුන ඇතුලත්ව ඇත. ප්‍රබල ඔස්ට්‍රෙල්යානු කණ්ඩායම ඉංදියා හමුවේ ප්‍රථම අර්ධ අවසන් පුර්ව තරඟයේදී පරාජය වීමේන් තරඟාවලියෙන් ඉවත් වන ලදි. නායක රිකීපොන්ටින්ගේ අවසන් තරඟය ලෙසද මෙය වාර්ථාවනු ඇත. මෙම තරඟයේදී ශතකයක් ලබා ගැනීමට පොන්ටින් සමත් වුවද ඉංදියාවේ ජයග්‍රහණය වලකා ලීමට එය ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවිණ.

2010 වසරේ තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසලෙහි සිසු/ සිසුවියන් සඳහා වු පරිගණක විභාගය

තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසල මධ්‍යස්ථානය මගින් 2010 වර්ෂය තුල පරිගණක අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබු සිසු/ සිසුවියන් සඳහා වු ලිඛිත විභාගය 2011 ජනවාරි මස 07 වැනි දින දෙබරවැව විද්‍යාලෝක අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනයෙදී පැවැත්විණි. 2010 උසස්පෙළ විභාගය අවසන් කර තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසලතුලින් අධයාපනය ලැබු සිසු/ සිසුවියන් 20 කට අධික පුමාණයක් මෙම ලිඛිත විභාගයට පෙනි සිටියහ.

2011 වසරට සුභපැතුම්

සාර්ථක 2010 වසර ගෙවා අවසන් කොට 2011 නව වසරට පැමිණ, වර්ථමානය සහ අනාගතය සාර්ථක කර ගන්නට සියළු දෙනාටම ගෙන එමි සුභ පැතුම්.
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවාසී සියළුදෙනාටම සුභ නව වසරක් වේවා !!!!!!!!!