Boost for rural IT literacy
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From left: ICTA Strategic Communications and Media Director
Athula Pushpakumara, ICTA Re-engineering Government and
Administration and Operations, Senior Program Head D. C.
Dissanayake, Ampara District Secretary Neil de Alwis and
Telecommunication and Information Technology Ministry
Secretary Gothabhaya Jayaratne (standing and addressing the
session) and
Ampara District Additional Government Agent and Additional
District Secretary K. Vimalanathan. |
Assessing the progress of Nenasalas and providing support for their
continued functioning will be entrusted to District Development
Committees, Telecommunication and Information Technology Ministry (TITM)
Secretary Gothabhaya Jayaratne told the Ampara District Nenasala and
Missaka e -Nenapiyasa operators at a district information technology
discussion recently.
It was organised by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).
He said that the Ministry would implement an extensive program to
rectify drawbacks in these centres in the future.
The Nenasalas and Missaka e-Nenapiyasa centres aim at increasing the
IT literacy of the people in rural areas.
Jayaratne said that the citizens services that the Government offers
to the rural people are provided through these Nenasalas via the
internet.
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