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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 09.00 GMT |
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The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) is carrying out several projects to implement the “Mahinda Chintana”.
One is the National e-Literacy Project aiming to ensure that 100,000 citizens in the rural community are ICT literate within 18 months. This project is one of the endeavours ICTA is engaged in to achieve, for example, the goal of the Instant Global Village envisaged in the Mahinda Chintana entailing 75% island-wide ICT literacy by 2017.
Under the 'Nenasala' programme, 600 ‘Nenasala’ rural information communication technology centres have been established island-wide.
Another is the 'e-Society Development Programme' for community assistance and partnership assistance.
This programme includes monitoring of price of agricultural produce, empowerment of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, teaching of English to rural children through the internet and provision of internet and email facilities to the visually handicapped to carry out their businesses, carrying out educational pursuits through the Digital Talking Book (instead of the Braille) and establishing an interactive study system for mastering various subjects under this project in conjunction with the National Institute of Education.
Facilities were provided for speedy exchange of information and sharing data by launching the “Lanka Government Network Project (LGN).
Under the BMD (Birth, Marriage and Death Certificate Digitisation) Project, the public are now able to obtain copies of these essential documents within as short a time as 10 minutes.
Citizens in the Western Province can obtain their vehicle revenue licence at their convenience from anywhere any time under the e-Revenue Licence Project.
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