Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

World Summit Awards 2009

Impaired Aid, the suite of local language accessibility applications for deaf and blind children - created by Jinasena Properties/Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind under an e-SDI PAP grant – was placed first in the category of e-Inclusion & Participation. The World Summit Award is a global initiative to select the world’s best e-content and innovative ICT applications and operates within the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). WSA 2009 attracted 560 applications from 157 countries, making Impaired Aid’s achievement quite significant, both for the e-SDI and Sri Lanka. It also demonstrates that in the area of ICT for disabilities, Sri Lanka displays a level of technical and social innovation on par with that of the most developed countries

Manthan Awards India

Another significant success story was the shortlisting of 13 e-SDI projects, both CAP and PAP, for the Manthan Awards in India out of over 240 projects submitted worldwide. All 13 shortlisted grantees attended the award conference in India – travel and accomodation were sponsored by ICTA – and the Daisy Lanka Foundation received an award for its local language Digital Talking Book project.

Stockholm Global Challenge, eIndia, GKP, Diskobolos Awards

Shilpa Sayura e-learning software platform and content, developed by e-Fusion (Pvt) Ltd under a PAP grant, has won multiple awards including the GK3 Stockholm Challenge Education award in Malaysia and the Stockholm Global Challenge Award in the education category. Further awards won included Diskobolos from Greece and eIndia from India.

Teaching without teachers

Partner: Induragara Swarnadeepa Foundation & Kadurupitiya e-Village

In rural areas, there is a lack of teachers in certain important subjects. This led to the requirement of an e-learning project, funded through an e-Society grant, where the foundation would set up a center for children to visit and use self learning interactive CDs to learn English and other subjects.

The center began with computer training and English learning and has now progressed to giving children math and science learning through locally developed e-learning software products as well as products from the Azim Premji Foundation in India.

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