Sri Lanka's first outdoor wireless computer network is now up and running. Surprisingly, it is not in Colombo. It is not even in any of the other key places. It was installed in Mahavilachchiya, a little known village, 40 km from the nearest town Anuradhapura, and surrounded three sides by the Vilpattu jungle....
The new and updated edition of the Digital Review of Asia Pacific contains authoritative reports on how 29 economies/countries are using ICT in business, government and civil society written by senior authors who live and work in the region. Included are three subregional chapters on the Pacific Island States, ASEAN and APEC....
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Dr. Gihan Dias, Member of APDIP's Advisory Panel on Internet Governance presents a paper entitled, "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations at the National IT Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 15 to 16 August 2005....
The International Open Source Network (IOSN) has published five country reports on wiki....
APDIP joined hands with the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka in conducting a special ICT for development (ICT4D) awareness creation session for the staff working in the UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo and UNDP Sri Lanka Country office staff on January 18, 2006....
As part of the project entitled "Capacity Building of Asia Pacific e-Government Initiatives," APDIP, UNDP's Asia Regional Governance Programme and the United Nation Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) jointly organized a regional workshop in Bangkok, Thailand on 24-25 April 2006 to review and disuss 20 case studies from 12 different Asia-Pacific countries. This workshop was held back-to-back with egov Asia 2006, the Asian e-government conference, and at the same venue in Rama Gardens Hotel and Resort in Bangkok....
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Children of Tsunami is a regional communications initiative tracking how ordinary people rebuild lives and livelihoods after the Asian Tsunami Disaster. This is an initiative of TVE Asia Pacific and APDIP is a partner. The films can now be downloaded online....