Friday, July 24, 2020

ICT in Sinhala & Tamil

Launch of the book 
"How ICT was enabled in Local Languages"

Author of the book "How ICT was enabled in Local Languages" Ms. Aruni Goonetilleke

Presenting the book to Prof. Gihan Dias

Presenting the book to Mr. Jayantha De Silva

Presenting the book to Mr. Jayantha Fernando

Prof. Gihan Dias, Domain Registrar and also the CEO and Founder of the LK Domain Registry

Ms. Aruni Goonetilleke former Senior Program Manager at ICTA of Sri Lanka

Mr. Jayantha Fernando, program director and legal advisor of ICTA and Chairman of the LK Domain Registry

Mr. Jayantha De Silva, Chief Guest of the event, Chairman of ICTA and Co founder and Managing Director of IFS


Left to Right Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhana, Mrs. Sriya Samaranayake & Mr.
Jayantha Fernando


Ms. Niroja Jayawardane, Project Manager - Partnerships, LK Domain Registry

Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya former Program Director, Re-engineering Government at ICTA

Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhana, CEO of Theekshana

How ICT was enabled in Local Languages describes the efforts that were made and initiatives carried out by Government organizations, the private sector and many individuals to enable the use of ICT in Sinhala and Tamil, from the beginning upto 2014. When English was the only language that could be used in computers, it left out many people in Sri Lanka, since many were not conversant in English.   
Enabling the use of ICT in Sinhala and Tamil was a necessity so that all could reap the benefits of ICT and this is the story of those who strove to ensure that this could be done.





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