Lecture for KOICA Volunteers

The new KOICA Volunteer (한국국제협력단 자원봉사) team members (20 volunteers) came to Sri Lanka at the end of May 2009. They will be volunteering in Sri Lanka in different organizations, for the benefit of Sri Lankans in next couple of years. I had the opportunity to conduct a lecture for them to introduce history, culture and etiquette in Sri Lanka. It was conducted on Thursday, 18th June at the KOICA Office in Colombo. The objective of the lecture was to aware the volunteers about the culture and etiquette of Sri Lanka, in order to make their life more comfortable and fruitful during their stay in this country. It was a great pleasure for me to meet this young and energetic volunteer team and have a nice time with them.

Korean National Digital Library - Dibrary

The National Digital Library (NDL) of Korea is functioning now. During my stay in Korea in last summer, the construction work of the digital library was in process, and it is my pleasure to announce now it is functioning. The digital library (dibrary) was opened in late May (25th) 2009.

The six principles of the basis for the NDL’s missions are as follows:

1. The Digital Library approachable from anywhere
2. The Digital Library with no barriers
3. The Digital Library encouraging participation
4. The Digital Library as the Global Knowledge Information Hub
5. The Digital Library providing Information Literacy Service
6. The Digital Library providing Information Reference Service

Pls. visit the dibrary and experience it! http://www.dibrary.net/intro/intro.html

ICT Workshop at Badulla

With the aim of furthering the aims of APNG & LKiNG by disseminating the ICT knowledge to remote people, we conducted an ICT workshop at Badulla/ Wepassawela Siriniwasa Maha Vidyala, Badulla on 30th April.

I my self, Mr. J. Amaraweera of the Buddhist & Pali University and Ms. Sagarika Wickramasekara of the Open University were the resource persons. We shared the knowledge on the basics of ICT, Internet, etc. with the participants. Over 350 students and 40 teachers from different schools in the area were participated the event.