The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) is now well into several projects for implementing the “Mahinda Chintana Idiri Dekma”.  This was possible since the Vision Ahead is an Extended Version of the “Mahinda Vision”.
Among  these several projects is the National e-Literacy Project aiming to  ensure that 100,000 citizens  in the rural community  are ICT literate within 18 months. This project is just one of  the endeavour ICTA is engaged in  to achieve, for example, the goal of the Instant Global Village envisaged in the Mahinda Chintana Idiri Dekma entailing 75% island-wide ICT literacy by 2017.  
During the period from the launch of Mahinda Chintana in November 2005 to that of the Vision Ahead on 11 January 2010 and to date ICTA has implemented a number of programmes aimed at making more and more of the dividends of ICT reach the people especially the poor. 

1. Village Awakening 

• 'Nenasala' - 600 ‘Nenasala’ Rural information communication technology centres have been established island-wide.
• 'e-Society Development Programme' - ICT dividends reaching the people under this two-pronged grant programme  in community assistance and partnership assistance include monitoring of price of agricultural produce, empowerment of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs,  teaching of English  to rural children through the internet and provision of internet and email facilities to the visually handicapped, to carry out their businesses, carrying out educational pursuits through the Digital Talking Book (instead of the Braille) and establishing an interactive study system for mastering various subjects under this project in conjunction with the National Institute of Education.