How do we ngos get access to the satellite links and get a free service for
school realted news ? ben
--- On Fri, 7/3/09, Sameera Wijerathna <sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk> wrote:
From: Sameera Wijerathna <sameera.wijerat...@dialog.lk>
Subject: Re: [DDN] Nationwide implementation of ICT in mass Education....
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group"
<digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net>
Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 5:58 AM
Dear Alan/Others
Here in Sri Lanka (South Asia) we have a project called Digital Bridge, in
which we connect thousand rural schools with the satellite technology. We are
working with the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Sri Lanka and there is a
dedicated educational channel which telecast programmes on local school
syllabus.
We have developed contents in local languages (Sinhalese and Tamil) and schools
can select the language according to their preference. The high quality,
educational contents developed by the Ministry of Education, are telecasted by
Dialog TV (a company of Dialog Telekom) to the rural schools.
Sri Lanka, being a developing country has some infrastructure issues in the
rural schools. In some schools we do not have qualified teachers to teach
subjects such as Mathematics, Science, English, etc. Also those schools are
lacking with library facilities, science lab facilities, computer lab, etc. So
in our Digital Bridge project we have selected those rural schools and trying
to deliver quality education using the technology as an attempt the bridge the
rural digital divide.
Best regards,
Sameera Wijerathna
Co-ordinator CSR (ICT)
Dialog Telekom PLC
3rd Floor, DTV Building,
275, Nawala Road,
Nawala.
Sri Lanka.
Mob:
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