The Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel Sri Lanka on the adoption of Intel Easy Steps. Intel Easy Steps is a basic technology literacy education programme, provided free of charge by Intel to governments and NGOs around the world, to…

Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Sri Lanka has called for nominations for the first-ever Nenasala Awards titled ""Nenasala Pranama – Swarna Sammana". Launched in 2005 based on a concept of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the ‘Nenasala Project’ gives a new life to Sri…

Nenasala (Wisdom Outlet) is a government initiated national Telecentre project in Sri Lanka. The Nenasala initiative commenced via a concept of His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa in order to provide ICT access to the rural areas. Implemented by the Information and…

The Ceylon Fisheries Corporation (CFC) yesterday launched a special service in collaboration with the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka to make consumers instantly aware of the prevailing fish prices in the market via SMS.

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister…

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka this week has formally opened applications to set up 40 ‘Nenasala’ or Telecentres in the Northern Province as part of the agency’s continuing efforts to bridge the digital divide in the country.

Telecentres, or also known as Community e-Centres, are public…

As yet another step in making the optimum benefits of ICT reach all, the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) is to set up 40 ‘Nenasala’s (‘Arivaham’s) in the Northern Province.

Applications are now called from registered community based organisations for setting up these ‘Nenasala’ ‘Arivaham’s…

Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the Sri Lankan President says that the 2013 budget proposal to set up 14,000 Nenasala ICT centers will be implemented within three years' time.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his budget for next year proposed to set up Nenasala centers in every Grama…

Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has recently trained 23,000 rural women under the project 'e-Diriya'. The ‘e-Diriya’, the national ICT literacy initiative of Sri Lanka was launched in November 2011 and aimed at improving the ICT literacy level of the country. This…

To uplift the IT literacy level in the rural areas of the country the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) launched the ‘Nenasara’ Mobile Library for Digital content yesterday.



This is aimed at the underprivileged sectors of the…

Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), the implementing agency for the Nenasala project has launched the Training Workshops for Nenasala Operators for the year 2011. The e-Sri Lanka initiative harnesses the benefits of information and communication technology and takes its dividends to every village, every citizen and every business including government in order to reduce…

In near future, Sri Lankans will be accessing the website with their local language web addresses. The story reads as follows :

Sri Lanka's Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) announced this week that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use

of Sinhala and Tamil language in website addresses, a move that ICTA

said "would go a long way in making Sri Lankans, especially the rural

folk, move speedily…