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    1. Info Share Sanjana Hattotuwa Head, ICT and Peacebuilding
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    3. Significant experience and expertise
      • Support systems for governance (not government)
        • Including peacebuilding, journalism, anti-corruption, anti-trafficking, elections monitoring, donor and civil society (NGO) collaboration systems at national, inter-state and international levels
      • Sustainable content development and training for rural entrepreneurs
      • IT skills building through vocational training curricula
      • ICT related work force development skills
    4. “ We value the potential of ICTs to promote peace and to prevent conflict which, inter alia , negatively affects achieving development goals. ICTs can be used for identifying conflict situations through early-warning systems preventing conflicts, promoting their peaceful resolution, supporting humanitarian action , including protection of civilians in armed conflicts, facilitating peacekeeping missions, and assisting post conflict peace-building and reconstruction.” Paragraph 36, WSIS Tunis Commitment, 2005 (two years after InfoShare began work) ICT4Peace
    5. One Text Negotiations
    6. Peace Library
    7. Elections monitoring
    8. Civil society & donor collaboration
    9. Anti-Corruption
      • Service provider for USAID / AED Peace Support Project since 2003
      • Designed and supported collaboration and information dissemination platforms for USAID / ARD’s Anti Corruption Programme
      • Operated in English, Sinhala and Tamil
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    11. www.groundviews.lk www.youtube.org/vikalpasl radio.voicesofpeace.lk www.vikalpa.org
    12. Strengthening media & Socrates CMS
    13. Human Trafficking System – Mumbai, India
    14. Human rights monitoring and reporting
    15. HURIDOCS initial feedback (via email)
      • “ Wow, Sanjana, I am really impressed! I think this platform is going to take the human rights world by storm”
      • “ Fabulous news! Something we have talked about for years!”
      • “ Wonderful, stunning and creative!!!”
      • “ I am utterly amazed! I'm dying to see the actual product!”
    16. Technical support
      • ICT troubleshooting, wired / wireless secure and resilient network management and desktop consultancy services for non-profits and donor organisations (AED, NDI, South Asia Peace Institute, ARD)
      • Security and network audits (in a context of war and the need to secure data and have as little downtime as possible)
    17. USAID Last Mile Initiative (LMI)
      • Develop and deploy a franchise-based business model for WiMax enabled community technology centers;
      • Identify and select up to 30 franchisees in up to 5 extremely rural areas of Sri Lanka;
      • Enable franchises to provide wireless enabled ICT services, such as VOIP, internet access, computer training etc;
      • Seek to attract private investment to facilitate further growth of the franchise model throughout Sri Lanka;
    18. ICT Training Services
      • InfoShare is a Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP) partner which licenses Unlimited Potential training curricula and methodologies.
      • Basic IT skills for non-profits
      • Project management skills (desktop, hosted apps such as Google Docs and GMail, Microsoft Project)
      • Basic financial management packages for non-profits to strengthen accountability, sustainability and transparency of operations
    19. Basic IT syllabi for four key economic sectors
    20. Thank You sanjana@info-share.org

    + Sanjana HattotuwaSanjana Hattotuwa, 2 years ago

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