Comments on: IT happens in Mahavilachchiya http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/ Digital business strategies Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:34:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Andy http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-8782 Andy Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:53:08 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-8782 Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information ... Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …

]]> By: orgagnigary http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-7714 orgagnigary Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:21:30 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-7714 Hello I've just registered at the forum. This is my first message. Please don't become angry about me. Thank you. Hello
I’ve just registered at the forum. This is my first message.
Please don’t become angry about me.
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]]> By: hollywoodheidi http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-6276 hollywoodheidi Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:09:56 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-6276 Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool. Now, I gotta run off and read some posts. :) Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool.

Now, I gotta run off and read some posts. :)

]]> By: lokimikoj http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-4830 lokimikoj Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:46:19 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-4830 Hi all! interesting info Hi all!

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]]> By: wanninayaka http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-394 wanninayaka Sun, 13 May 2007 10:46:54 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-394 Our blog is moved to this address http://mahavilachchiya.wordpress.com/ Our blog is moved to this address http://mahavilachchiya.wordpress.com/

]]> By: Nandasiri Wanninayaka http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-213 Nandasiri Wanninayaka Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:30:41 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-213 Please read this email I wrote to the Editor and the Webmaster of a national newspaper. We want to encourage them to pay more attention on to the web edition of the newspaper. Dear Editor, Webmaster, I am attaching two images of Divaina yesterday (April 25th) with this email. (The visitors to this blog can access the images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7983377@N07/ ) In one image you see the printed version (must be the Colombo version) carries out the news article about Sri Lanka winning the World Cup semifinal where as the online version doesn’t mention anything about this!!!! In the other parts of the world, this is usually the other way round. Online version is updated timely and the printed version carries older news sine it has to undergo a tedious process from the writer to the newspaper distributor which is understandable. I hope you will keep the Divaina.com website updated timely. We even pay for subscription for the online version and you have a duty to upload the newest content to the site. Hope this email would be taken constructively and required attention would be paid to take necessary actions to keep the website updated. www.divaina.com is a very good resource for the Diaspora than us. I understood how much I craved for updated news from Sri Lanka while I was out of the country and Divaina.com was a great relief. Also please understand that Divaina.com only uploads few selected articles from the printed version whereas lankadeepa.lk uploads the full version of the newspaper as a PDF file and a JPG image. This solves font downloading problem as well. Be informed that internet penetration in the country is increasing remarkably now even villages get internet and having timely updated newspapers would be appreciated immensely. Even in my village Mahavilachchiya in Anuradhapura, we have provided 28 internet connections to village houses and 2 pubic schools free of charge and there are 7 WiFi zones in the village. So internet penetration is very high. Farmers get the printed newspaper by the evening as it goes to the boutiques in the village with the bread man in the evening. But now with the newly provided Internet access, farmers read online newspapers even before they go to chenas and rice fields in the morning. Visit http://www.horizonlanka.org/news/mesh/launch/visiting_village.html and see this yourself. Regards, Wanni T B Nandasiri Wanninayaka Founder Horizon Lanka Foundation 101, Mahavilachchiya Anuradhapura Sri Lanka 077-7702678 (Mobile) 060 225 6696 (Official) wanni@horizonlanka.org, wanni77@yahoo.com www.horizonlanka.org www.horizonlanka.org/wanni Skype: wanninayaka GTalk: wanninayaka Yahoo Messenger: wanni678 MSN: wanni@hotmail.com Please read this email I wrote to the Editor and the Webmaster of a national newspaper. We want to encourage them to pay more attention on to the web edition of the newspaper.

Dear Editor, Webmaster,

I am attaching two images of Divaina yesterday (April 25th) with this email. (The visitors to this blog can access the images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7983377@N07/ )

In one image you see the printed version (must be the Colombo version) carries out the news article about Sri Lanka winning the World Cup semifinal where as the online version doesn’t mention anything about this!!!! In the other parts of the world, this is usually the other way round. Online version is updated timely and the printed version carries older news sine it has to undergo a tedious process from the writer to the newspaper distributor which is understandable.

I hope you will keep the Divaina.com website updated timely. We even pay for subscription for the online version and you have a duty to upload the newest content to the site.

Hope this email would be taken constructively and required attention would be paid to take necessary actions to keep the website updated.

http://www.divaina.com is a very good resource for the Diaspora than us. I understood how much I craved for updated news from Sri Lanka while I was out of the country and Divaina.com was a great relief.

Also please understand that Divaina.com only uploads few selected articles from the printed version whereas lankadeepa.lk uploads the full version of the newspaper as a PDF file and a JPG image. This solves font downloading problem as well.

Be informed that internet penetration in the country is increasing remarkably now even villages get internet and having timely updated newspapers would be appreciated immensely. Even in my village Mahavilachchiya in Anuradhapura, we have provided 28 internet connections to village houses and 2 pubic schools free of charge and there are 7 WiFi zones in the village. So internet penetration is very high. Farmers get the printed newspaper by the evening as it goes to the boutiques in the village with the bread man in the evening. But now with the newly provided Internet access, farmers read online newspapers even before they go to chenas and rice fields in the morning. Visit http://www.horizonlanka.org/news/mesh/launch/visiting_village.html and see this yourself.

Regards,
Wanni

T B Nandasiri Wanninayaka
Founder
Horizon Lanka Foundation
101, Mahavilachchiya
Anuradhapura
Sri Lanka

077-7702678 (Mobile)
060 225 6696 (Official)
wanni@horizonlanka.org, wanni77@yahoo.com
http://www.horizonlanka.org http://www.horizonlanka.org/wanni
Skype: wanninayaka
GTalk: wanninayaka
Yahoo Messenger: wanni678
MSN: wanni@hotmail.com

]]> By: Nandasiri Wanninayaka http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-175 Nandasiri Wanninayaka Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:10:33 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-175 Horizon Lanka Foundation http://www.horizonlanka.org/ in Mahavilachchiya www.mahavilachchiya.net has registered a company called OnTime Technologies to start Business Process Outsourcing project with the help of FARO www.farolanka.org. The operations will start this month. CEO of the company is a young staff member Nirosh Manjula and I am only the non executive Chairman of the company. I am happy how these young people from the village succeed in this venture. This is the first ever BPO in a rural village in Sri Lanka. Horizon Lanka Foundation http://www.horizonlanka.org/ in Mahavilachchiya http://www.mahavilachchiya.net has registered a company called OnTime Technologies to start Business Process Outsourcing project with the help of FARO http://www.farolanka.org. The operations will start this month. CEO of the company is a young staff member Nirosh Manjula and I am only the non executive Chairman of the company. I am happy how these young people from the village succeed in this venture. This is the first ever BPO in a rural village in Sri Lanka.

]]> By: Donald Gaminitillake http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-130 Donald Gaminitillake Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:02:46 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-130 Sri Lanka have a population of 19 million people. The official langauge of the country is Sinhala and Tamil. In Singapore there are four official languages. Asian countries are multilingual. English being the link language. In Sri Lanka all the government documentation are issued in Sinhala language. All the education is done in Sinhala. English is thought as a subject. 70% of the student will not obtain the pass marks in English at the GCE o/L examination. Technically all computers are multilingual. The problem in Sri Lanka is what they registered in the unicode consortium or the Srilanka Standard institute is in the the type writer character set as the Sinhala language. Computer is not a typewriter. Instead of registering the typewriter concept SLSI should have to register all the sinhala and Tamil characters in proper matrix. Since there are no proper locations for all Sinhala characters (code points) the text is not compatible across all platforms. If the public who are educated in local languages are given the chance of using proper local languages in a computer they will be able to leapfrog into the computer world. Donald Gaminitillake Colombo Sri Lanka have a population of 19 million people. The official langauge of the country is Sinhala and Tamil. In Singapore there are four official languages. Asian countries are multilingual. English being the link language.

In Sri Lanka all the government documentation are issued in Sinhala language. All the education is done in Sinhala. English is thought as a subject. 70% of the student will not obtain the pass marks in English at the GCE o/L examination.

Technically all computers are multilingual. The problem in Sri Lanka is what they registered in the unicode consortium or the Srilanka Standard institute is in the the type writer character set as the Sinhala language. Computer is not a typewriter. Instead of registering the typewriter concept SLSI should have to register all the sinhala and Tamil characters in proper matrix.

Since there are no proper locations for all Sinhala characters (code points) the text is not compatible across all platforms.

If the public who are educated in local languages are given the chance of using proper local languages in a computer they will be able to leapfrog into the computer world.

Donald Gaminitillake
Colombo

]]> By: Nandasiri Wanninayaka http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-115 Nandasiri Wanninayaka Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:59:34 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/it-happens-in-mahavilachchiya/#comment-115 You can contribute to the success of the Mahavilachchiya ICT project through http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1700/proj1657a.html if you like. Regards, Wanni You can contribute to the success of the Mahavilachchiya ICT project through http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1700/proj1657a.html if you like.

Regards,
Wanni

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