Sri Lanka's e-Society Program shines at World Bank's Inovation Fair

Sri Lanka's e-society programme has shined at the recent Innovation Fair held at the World Bankin Washington, D.C.,U.S.A. The Innovation Fair has organized by the World Bank to draw attention of the top Management for creative and fresh approaches in global development programs.

The e-Society program was one of six most distinctive projects from the South Asia regionshow cased at this inaugural World Bank Innovation fair.The program initiated and implemented under the e-Sri Lanka project by the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Agency-Sri Lanka.

ICT Agency Sri Lanka has been working for encouraging local expertise. The e-society program showed how it has adroitly used ICT to develop programs that have helped rural farmers to access agricultural market information, provide social services,education opportunities to individuals and assist the disabled.

ICT Agency has established under the Information and Communication Act no 27 of 2003 by the Sri Lanka government. The project period is

To harness ICT as a lever for economic and social advancement
by taking the dividends of ICT to every village, to every citizen, to
every business & to re-engineer the way government
thinks & works"

Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Sri Lanka have joined hands with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India to organise 4th annual eASiA 2009 conference and exhibition in Colombo on 2-4 December 2009 at BMICH Colombo.

Sri Lanka to celebrate the year 2009 as the year of ICT and English as declared by HE Mahinda RajapaksaMahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka and to promote growth of ICT4D, through consultative dialoguing, strategic planning, knowledge networking and business partnering.