Presentation given by Peter Mozelius, Researcher, Stockholm University Sweden on August 1st, 2011 at eWorld Forum (www.eworldforum.net) in the session Sharing Good Practices in eGovernance
1. Cross-ethnic Collaboration at a Sri Lankan Telecentre – Barriers for Effective E-learning in Rural Regions Peter Mozelius Stockholm University / Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Niranjan Megammaana Shilpa Sayura Organization, Sri Lanka
2. Sri Lanka, Population & Regions Area: 65 610 km 2 Inhabitants: 21 million ≈ 73.9% Sinhalese ≈ 12.6% Tamil ≈ 7.4% Moors ≈ 5.2% Indian Tamil ≈ 0.5.% Others
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7. The Haldemmulla Telecentre Owner : The Buddhist temple Manager : A Tamil teacher Visitors : 50% Tamils 50% Singalese
8. The Koslanda Telecentre The neighbour telecentre Owned and managed by two disabled Tamil brothers No collaboration between the telecentres ?!