NGO

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NGO Community Participation in Setting up
Nanasala for targeting the poor and vulnerable
and improving government accountability

• Harsha Liyanage

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Nanasala

• ..in the context of eSriLanka

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eSriLanka
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Nanasala Models
Rural Knowledge Centre
Basic Telecentres
Target Rural Pockets
Distance e-Learning Centre
Advance ICT facilities
Rural Town-ships
e-Libraries
Mini telecentres
Places of religious worship
Tsunami Camp Nanasala
Mini telecentres
IDP Centers
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Equity Accountability
Fair distribution of resources opportunities
Conscious effort to reach multiple ethnic groups
Weakness
Only 12 / 70 in Tamil speaking areas
Content options lagging far behind!
Connectivity option V-SAT sustainability..?
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NGO Community Participation

• in setting up Nanasala

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At Setting up Nanasala
Concept formulation Designing
Participatory
Systematic transparent
Site selection
Model
Community friendly sustainable
Ownership
Locally owned, and entrepreneurially driven
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Targeting

• .the Poor Vulnerable

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Promoting participation of poor
Demand side subsidy Voucher
Community increased by 5 fold
Adult response started to go up
Women participation stimulated
Yet far from being satisfactory solution for
adult participation
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Impact upon NGO sector
NGO is an effective arm in SL to reach poor
vulnerable
400 500 NGOs
Active in poverty, environment, human rights etc.
Major donor funds set the trends in the sector
eSociety mobilizes NGO as an effective arm to
catalyze community
eSriLanka has become ICT trend setter from
non-ICT to ICT
140 project grants, worth 35million Rs. to be
commissioned
Too early to comment on outcome
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Sectoral Participation
NGO vs Cooperate State sectors
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Service trend
Community development vs other services
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Service trend
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Case Study

• Pre Post eSriLanka

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Case Study Pre Post eSriLanka
Sarvodaya telecentre engagement since 1996
Results of Partnership with eSriLanka - develop
Human Resources - helped to expand the network
- produced best telecentre model for Sri Lanka -
explore new project horizons eg telecentre family
under telecentre.org
Yet disappointments

• Could not provide a good back-bone solution
• No sufficient local content

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Building e-citizen?!?
optimistic_at_future..!
Thank You...!