Weerasinghe Mudiyanselage Chaminda Dissanayake's Page

My organization

Lunama Nanasala

Website

http://www.hambantota.info

Address

Nanasala,
Lunama,
Ambalantota.
82100

What we do as an organization (100-word description)

Nanasala Center at Lunama Ambalantota functions under Information Technology Agency of Sri Lanka. This centre is managed by the community base organization known as DFOLRL. ( It is an foundation registered by the state. )

Mr. W. M. C. R. K. Dissanayake is handling this centre. He is a youth who developed the skills of information technology of people in Hambantota District. He participated in Mission 2005 and Mission 2007 workshops and 2005, 2007 workshops held in New Delhi in India. He was selected for the forty youth people in the Young Social Entrepreneurship contest held in 2007 by GK3. He also participated at the convention of GK3 at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in December 2007.

My function in the organization

chairman / project Manager

What ICT or e-Skill training programs does your organization offer?

Home ICT Network.

4000 students benefited as a results of the Home ICT Network project. 128 selected youth an 40 students were provided with basic knowledge of computer literacy in their own homes. when implementing this project 150 Computer Machines used by 128 youth were used in the computer technology training these computers were bought with the registration fee of RS. 400 obtained from the youth. The entire registration fee was RS. 160,000.00 the youth indulged themselves in the training activities as such several computer machines were vested with them. an increase of 4000 rural student who studied computer literacy was seen after an year. out of the 128 youth 10 youth earn an income by providing various services thorough computer machine. including type setting, photo editing and CD writing.

What other training services does your organization provides?

ICT Mini Campus

1. 400 students were further trained to suit the e Citizen examination computer literacy knowledge. They were made to after for this examination after having paid only examination fees. This project was implemented in Hambantota district. after this project while selecting a regional computer course we were very careful whether it suited the international certificate status. as such training institute and the training courses quality has been enhanced.
2. A Gmail group has been formed by the ICT Mini Campus. Although the rural youth have obtained computer literacy they are scared of internet. The reason fot it as we have identified is that e mail and internet are meant for the people with English language efficiency. Removing this obstacle we used Sinhala and Tamil unicode. as a result employment opportunities and educational opportunities information were provided to our group in local language.

Other services and activities:

www.hambantota.info

formulating a web site collecting provincial information for the easy development plans and Disaster management ( It is being done at the moment while a section of it has been completed. )

Number of telecentres linked to my organization

500

Target groups

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Partners: (other NGOs)

DFOLRL

Partners: (private sector)

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Partners: (government)

e Sri lanka

Other partners:

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How we contribute to the network

Best practices/Success stories, Training materials, Evaluation tools/methodologies, e-learning resources, Research

Other ways of contributing to the network (please describe):

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How you got in touch with this social network site?

I searched it through the web

MSN Messenger user name

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