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Sri Lanka Telecenter connectivity story 4: Pocketed Broadband
Electricity is said to be the only infrastructure the twentieth century communist rulers have truly cared for. The practice may have had its origins in Lenin’s efforts for full electrification of the...
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Sri Lanka: Whither onshore BPOs @BOP?
Recessions are not bad for everybody. Proverbial silver line in the cloud, they bring hope to some. Success of the India BPO industry can partially be attributed to the post 9/11 recession. Tighter the...
View ArticleNext Generation Networks discussed in Colombo in April
A regional workshop on next generation networks will be held in Colombo, April 7-10, 2009. We wish it success in advancing the rollout of next generation networks in the region.
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Straight-talking IT leader to advise Sri Lanka President
Mr Narayana Murthy of Infosys has always been a straight-talker and a clear thinker. The Sri Lanka President deserves congratulations on picking him as his advisor. He will give good advice. We hope...
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Sri Lankan Software Industry: Repeating an experiment once failed?
Narayana Murthy, the ‘IT Guru’ is in Colombo. ‘Entrepreneurship and IT for National Integration: A Challenge for Sri Lanka’ was his topic addressing Sri Lankan software industry representatives, on...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Narayana Murthy declines to be IT advisor to President
Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy has declined to be the IT advisor to the Sri Lankan government, the IT bellwether said Wednesday. In a letter to Sri Lankan President...
View ArticleLIRNEasia’s Broadband Quality of Service Experience (QoSE) Testing – Feb 2009...
In the third round, LIRNEasia has extended the testing to one more location. With that we have tested two packages in New Delhi (MTNL and AirTel), two in Chennai (BSNL and AirTel), five in Colombo (SLT...
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World Bank wanted cyber-cafes for rich; we implemented ‘Nenasalas’ for poor –...
Old habits die hard. When you have been a member of a tiny Trotskyite left political party for the longer period of your life and seen the World Bank as your arch enemy, you may forget that you are on...
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Sri Lanka: Our toes are free and we have a mobile web portal
We would have shown no interest if a Colombo school did this, but when Navodhya School, Pitakumbura, Bibile (300 km off from Colombo, in the border of a post conflict area) launches a mobile web...
View ArticleBANNED! BANNED! BANNED! No mobile phones in Sri Lankan schools
Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, is in ‘banning’ mode these days. Having ‘banned’ twelve sex sites on the initiation of IGP, now he...
View ArticleLIRNEasia CEO to deliver keynote at inaugural WSO2 conference
Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia‘s CEO, will deliver one of two keynote addresses on “Imagining the Future and Making it Happen”, at the inaugural WSO2 Conference, WSO2Con 2010, in Colombo, on 14 and 15...
View ArticlePublic lecture: From euphoria to pragmatism; the experience and the...
A public lecture entitled, “From euphoria to pragmatism: The experience and the potentials of eHealth in Asia” is to be held at the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Colombo 7, on 14 September 2010 from...
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LIRNEasia m-health research showcased at Colombo press conference
LIRNEasia‘s recently completed pilot project on the use of mobile phones for early detection of communicable diseases, led by Nuwan Waidyantha, was showcased at a press conference yesterday at...
View ArticleCosts of living for mobile professionals
This has been the week of IT and ITES (or queries related to them). A local weekly asked me about the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide Cost of Living survey, where Colombo had come in the lowest...
View ArticleCan mobile meta data replace costly traffic studies?
Today was the first public airing of our big data for development research results. It was a small amount of time, so we focused on a limited set of issues. So we showed that anonymized data sets can...
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