Lanka Government Network Postal Office Connect (LGN P-Connect)

To build highly available, secure and reliable government network to link all post offices to a single digital infrastructure.

The project will be implemented in 200 post offices in year 2016;

Outputs

• Establish government network with 100Mbps last mile connectivity to each post office.
• Establish wireless networks at each post office
• Enable access to unlimited Hi-Speed secure Internet facility for postal offices (up to 10Gbps)
• Enable access to Lanka Government Cloud (LGC) services from any post office
• Offer better and cost effective communication platform to use with cloud based email facility, G2G IP based voice facility and video communication facility to entire postal network
• To provide trusted and secure connectivity to other government organizations to exchange government data.

Outcomes

Achieve the connected government concept by connecting every government organization to a single data backbone to make public services citizen centric and perform cross organizational functionalities electronically. Ensure the accessibility to the LGN network from anywhere in the country via Wi-Fi technology.

Lanka Government Network 2.0 (LGN 2.0)

Aligned with the national policy of ‘Digitization of Economy’, of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), which functions under the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure. ICTA is the apex government organization, mandated to take all necessary measures to implement the Government’s Policy and Action Plan in relation to ICT development across all sectors of the country.

“Lanka Government Network” (LGN) project in near future. LGN is a strategic project of Re-Engineering Government program launched by the ICTA. The government of Sri Lanka has recognized the need for a digital economy and has taken measures to digitalize the administration in order to successfully face future economic and social challenges.

Main objective of the LGN project is to build highly available, high speed, secure, reliable and centrally managed dedicated government network to link all government institutions to a single digital infrastructure. By successfully deploying the LGN project, ICTA aims at encouraging public sector employees to get better acquainted with Information and Communication Technology (ICT), assuring efficiency and smooth flow of information as well as improving standards of service in the public sector to be able to provide efficient citizen services.

Lanka Government Network version 2.0 (LGN 2.0) backbone will be connect all the government organizations of GOSL in a cost-effective and secure manner to provide centralized Internet, Email and video conferencing services, Enable access to Lanka Government Cloud (LGC) services from any government organization. Also, it’s provide number of government e-services and Provide trusted and secure connectivity to all government organizations to exchange government data and information.

As the first phase of the project LGN main VPN core and 860 government organization will be connect that Including 331 Divisional Secretariats, 25 District Secretariats, 50 Ministries, 87 Departments, 46 Hospitals, 321 Other Government organizations island wide.

The proposed LGN 2.0 initiative offers up to 100 Mbps last mile connectivity for all government location through fiber optic media. Also from this network ICTA intends to build their Local area network with providing Wi-Fi facilities with enabling cross government dedicated network in Sri Lanka.
The benefits of this project lies in a wide range as this project remove physical boundaries of the government institutions and offer effective and efficient government service to the public. Through this project, people in rural areas of the country will be able to access to government services even from rural areas of the country. Therefore it will open new business opportunities at the grass root level people due to availability of information and technology. Further it will reduce travelling costs and expenditure on obtaining government services due to the accessibility of government services in every part of the country. Added to that government will get the capacity to perform efficiently and effectively with the improved connectivity and availability of common digital platforms.

It is also expected to achieve significant cost reduction in government sector by avoiding paper based communication and documentation by moving in to digital communication and documentation by using the available government network. Ultimately it will positively contribute to the improve citizen satisfaction and employee satisfaction due to the efficient service delivery and improved job satisfaction as well.

From this network both government employees and citizens will be able to easily connect the network using any of their Wi-Fi enabled device. This has long proven to be a reliable and efficient method of connectivity. Further, both employees and citizens will be allow to access government services and internet using their Wi-Fi enabled device. However, all user group will be allow Wi-Fi with different user policies for the internet access.

Lanka Government Network (LGN)

The ‘Lanka Government Network’ (LGN) is the government owned private network which is highly available, secure and reliable underlying information infrastructure backbone that aims to connect all the government organizations of Government of Sri Lanka in a cost-effective and secure manner.

The project was implemented in 3 main stages as follows,
Stage I: Provided LGN facilities to 325 government organizations across 13 districts in year 2007-2010)
Stage II: Provided LGN facilities to additional 151 government organizations across 7 districts in year 2010-2012.
Stage III: Provied LGN facilities to additional 74 government organizations across remaining 5 districts in year 2014.