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DCS Completed 3rd National Computer Literacy Survey

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:51

Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) has completed third Computer Literacy Survey (CLS) which presents the findings for the first six months starting from February 2009 – July 2009. Before this version of the survey, DCS had conducted two household surveys on computer literacy in 2004 and 2006/7.. CLS is to continue hereafter as a regular household survey in every year around.

In this survey, DCS has enumerated a nationally distributed sample of 10,150 households with 31,302 persons aged 5-69 years.

According to the findings, Computer literacy reported in 2009 in Sri Lanka is 20.3 present and showed over 25% increase from 16.1 percent reported in 2006/07.

The survey results have also revealed that about 13 % of the population aged 5-69 years has used the internet facility at least once during the last 12 month.

e Governement Policy Approved By Cabinet

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Development should benefit ordinary citizens

Monday, 07 December 2009 16:45

Excerpts from the address of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the inauguration of the eAsia 2009 exhibition held at the BMICH on December 2.
In the 'Mahinda Chintana', my election manifesto, which received the endorsement of the people, we recognized the importance of rapidly creating an information society in Sri Lanka. We are now looking forward to transforming that information society to a knowledge culture in the decade to come.
In this context it is timely that an event of this magnitude is being hosted in Sri Lanka this year. It is even more fitting that this is the largest and the culminating event of 2009, which the government declared as the Year of English and IT. We are committed to bring English and IT, which were available only to a privileged few, to the rural citizens of our country. We are closer to achieving this aim since terrorism which destroyed the nation for three decades, has finally come to an end.
Benefits
My government and I believe that any development activity that we embark upon should ultimately offer benefits to the ordinary citizens of our country. People, should be the final benefactors of all development projects. The National Policy based development activities that we have commenced, are firmly rooted on this premise and the e-development agenda is no exception.