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Sanjana HattotuwaHead, ICT and Peacebuilding

Significant experience and expertise

• Support systems for governance (not government)

– Including peacebuilding, journalism, anti-corruption, anti-

trafficking, elections monitoring, donor and civil society

(NGO) collaboration systems at national, inter-state and

international levels

• Sustainable content development and training for

rural entrepreneurs

• IT skills building through vocational training

curricula

• ICT related work force development skills

“We value the potential of ICTs to promote peace and to prevent conflict which, inter alia, negatively affects achieving development goals. ICTs can be used for

identifying conflict situations through early-warning systems preventing conflicts, promoting their peaceful resolution,

supporting humanitarian action, including protection of civilians in armed conflicts, facilitating peacekeeping

missions, and assisting post conflict peace-building and reconstruction.”

Paragraph 36, WSIS Tunis Commitment, 2005 (two years after InfoShare began work)

ICT4Peace

One Text Negotiations

Peace Library

Elections monitoring

Civil society & donor collaboration

Anti-Corruption• Service provider for

USAID / AED Peace Support Project since 2003

• Designed and supported collaboration and information dissemination platforms for USAID / ARD’s Anti Corruption Programme

• Operated in English, Sinhala and Tamil

www.groundviews.lk www.youtube.org/vikalpasl

radio.voicesofpeace.lk www.vikalpa.org

Strengthening media & Socrates CMS

Human Trafficking System – Mumbai, India

Human rights monitoring and reporting

HURIDOCS initial feedback (via email)

• “Wow, Sanjana, I am really impressed! I think this platform is going to take the human rights world by storm”

• “Fabulous news! Something we have talked about for years!”

• “Wonderful, stunning and creative!!!”

• “I am utterly amazed! I'm dying to see the actual product!”

Technical support• ICT troubleshooting, wired / wireless secure and

resilient network management and desktop

consultancy services for non-profits and donor

organisations (AED, NDI, South Asia Peace

Institute, ARD)

• Security and network audits (in a context of war

and the need to secure data and have as little

downtime as possible)

USAID Last Mile Initiative (LMI)

• Develop and deploy a franchise-based business model for WiMax enabled community technology centers;

• Identify and select up to 30 franchisees in up to 5 extremely rural areas of Sri Lanka;

• Enable franchises to provide wireless enabled ICT services, such as VOIP, internet access, computer training etc;

• Seek to attract private investment to facilitate further growth of the franchise model throughout Sri Lanka;

ICT Training Services• InfoShare is a Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP) partner

which licenses Unlimited Potential training curricula and

methodologies.

• Basic IT skills for non-profits

• Project management skills (desktop, hosted apps such as

Google Docs and GMail, Microsoft Project)

• Basic financial management packages for non-profits to

strengthen accountability, sustainability and transparency

of operations

Basic IT syllabi for four key economic

sectors

Thank You

sanjana@info-share.org