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ICTA stall at Deyata Kirula 2012 to draw crowds: includes seminars for participant transformation

Monday, 06 February 2012 09:47

ICTA Chairman Professor P. W. Epasinghe

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) is getting ready to display several information technology projects at the Deyata Kirula 2012 Exhibition to be held at Oyamaduwa, Anuradhapura from 4th to 10th February.

Elaborating on the main projects due to be put on display at the national exhibition, ICTA Chairman Professor P. W. Epasinghe said that among the projects to be highlighted in the ICTA stall at Deyata Kirula 2012 would be Lanka Gate, Telemedicine, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), ‘eDiriya’ (the national IT literacy initiative) and Career Guidance (IT-BPO).

Lanka Gate comes in handy for electronic payment. Electronic payment is a pivotal facility that contributes to making the optimum benefits of ICT accrue to the people. Lanka Gate is thus used for example when making electronic payment for obtaining of vehicle revenue licence from home, so to say, or obtaining online visa by foreign passport holders.

Telemedicine makes medical treatment easier and less costly, less wearisome and less time-consuming for the patient and his / her relatives and friends. At the same time it makes more time available for the medical staff to serve more patients. For the very first time in Sri Lanka, doctors in Government hospitals will be able view a patient’s comprehensive medical records on their computer screen, thanks to the newly developed Hospital Health Information Management System (HHIMS).

Software like HHIMS play a pivotal role in fulfilling Mahinda Chinthana aims:

Monday, 19 December 2011 16:15

Software like the HHIMS, Hospital Health Information Management System can significantly improve service delivery to the citizen; They are pivotal in achieving the goals of the “Mahinda Chintana ‘Vision for the Future’ “, says Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya.

The Minister said so at a ceremony held at the Karavanella Base Hospital in Kegalle recently at which the - Hospital Health Information Management Systems (HHIMS) - was formally presented to him.

Speaking further on the occasion the Minister stated that one of the core aims of the Government’s said policy statement is to make people’s lives comfortable through the use of ICT.

Thanks to this new software, the fruition of a joint effort by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) and the Health Ministry, patient care will receive a shot in the arm. This will do away with the need for patients to register themselves on each and every visit to the hospital. Moreover the software will enable the hospital to preserve and retrieve medical records adding relief to both patient and doctor. Software like this contribute much towards making Sri Lanka the wonder of Asia by 2016, the challenge placed before us by the President, the Minister attested.

President’s support for e-Sri Lanka initiative, cause of country’s success in ICT

Monday, 19 December 2011 08:52

ICTA Chairman, Prof. P. W. Epasinghe

A project for initially making 50,000 persons IT literate within a month was officially launched by MP Namal Rajapaksa on the invitation of Telecommunication and IT Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya recently.

Several Ministers and Government officials including Senior Rural Affairs Minister Athauda Seneviratne and Presidential Advisor ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chairman Prof. P. W. Epasinghe also graced the occasion.

Speaking to the audience at the launch held at the Vidyasagara Pirivena Buddhist Temple at Kotiyakumbura , Kegalle, ICTA Chairman put the project, aptly called ‘e-diriya’, in its true perspective. The Professor said that the support President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave for the e-Sri Lanka initiative was at the root of the country’s successful use of ICT for development.

The address by the Chairman of ICTA the apex body responsible for implementing the e-Sri Lanka initiative, gave a succinct view of the national IT literacy initiative, “e-diriya” as follows:-

“As we now launch yet another important project under the e-Sri Lanka initiative, I believe that it is my duty, very briefly, to explain the goals of the project .