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An overview of our work in Sri Lanka using ICT to support development, peacebuilding, civil society collaboration and human rights

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Sanjana HattotuwaHead, ICT and Peacebuilding

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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

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“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

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One Text Negotiations

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Peace Library

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Elections monitoring

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Civil society & donor collaboration

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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

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

radio.voicesofpeace.lk www.vikalpa.org

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Strengthening media & Socrates CMS

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Human Trafficking System – Mumbai, India

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Human rights monitoring and reporting

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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!”

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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)

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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;

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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

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Basic IT syllabi for four key economic

sectors

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Thank You

[email protected]