Microsoft connects communities

Solution Specialist - Microsoft Sri Lanka, Anton Canisious briefing the audience on using Office 2010 to increase productivity at the Microsoft Connecting Communities Forum.

Microsoft Sri Lanka recently hosted the Connecting Communities forum for not-for-profit, social service organisations and charities across the country.

The forum was an opportunity for participants to learn and share ideas on how to make use of ICT tools and techniques to deliver better value to the communities they operate in and how ICT can help them be more productive.

The forum was privy to latest technological tools and software solutions - cloud computing, networking, resource planning, and document storage, that help collaborate and communicate more efficiently and effectively.

Microsoft provides support to the not for profit and community sectors in Sri Lanka primarily through its Software Donation Program.

The large group of beneficiaries in turn touch the lives of others.

The event partners were - TechSoup Global works with Microsoft on many initiatives, one of the biggest being to facilitate and increase the scale of the company's software donation program; Infoshare Guarantee Limited one of Microsoft's long-standing not for profit partners in Sri Lanka who helps facilitate Microsoft's goal to build ICT skill capacities and related employment opportunities for the country's youth; and the Asian Development Bank.