Expert Group Meeting on Regional Cooperation towards Building an Information Society in Asia and the Pacific 20 th - 22 nd July 2009 United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok Thailand Lalith Weeratunga Secretary to H.E the President of Sri Lanka
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Expert Group Meetingon
Regional Cooperation towards Building an Information Society in Asia and the
Pacific
20th - 22nd July 2009
United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok Thailand
Lalith WeeratungaSecretary to H.E the President of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka – Country Facts
Land Area: 65,610 Sq. KmPopulation: 21,130,000
GDP: US$ 30 BillionGDP/cap: US$ 1500Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
Time Zone: GMT +5:30Capital: Colombo (Commercial)
Sri Jayawardenepura (A)Languages: Sinhala, Tamil, English
People: Sri Lankan (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher)
Government procurement of advanced technology products
65 62 75 66 53 51
Importance of ICT to govt. vision of the future
84 64 54 38
Government success in ICT promotion
44 56 75 69 59 41
Availability of online services 68 72 104 82 71 67
ICT use and government efficiency
93 88 74 55
Presence of ICT in Government offices
82 49
Government – Achievements
Information on any Government Process, Service or Application just a phone call away – Government Information Centre (GIC)
Civil Registration (Birth, Marriage, Death certificates etc.) documents in hand within a matter of minutes – BMD Project
Drive-in Vehicle / Revenue License Registration
Government Organizational Machinery (Ministries, Departments, District & Divisional Secretariats, etc.) connected, on-line and secure. – Lanka Government Network (LGN)
300+ Government organization on the Web
Single-window, multi-channel access to any e-service in Sri Lanka (very soon) - Lanka Gate
Industry/Education - Achievements
3000+ schools equipped with computer labs (6000 by 2011) – SEMP
Sri Lankan ICT industry unified to form a strong single voice – SLASSCOM
40,000+ new jobs created in the IT/BPO sector since 2005 (Source: WFS)
IT/BPO becomes the 5th largest foreign exchange earner for the country –USD 250+ million in 2008 (EDB – Export Value Survey 2008)
Sri Lanka ranked 16th in the AT Kearney Out-Sourcing Location Index 2009. (2007/2008 position – 29th)
2009 – Declared as the “Year of English and IT”
Society - Achievements
Increased access to ICT for citizens across the country - 600 Nenasalas (Tele-centres) set-up; 250 Vidatha centres (Science & Technology centres set-up across the island
Provision of Market Prices & Crop/Agriculture information to farmers
Providing e-health/tele-medicine facilities to rural patients
Development of digital talking books for the visually impaired, to developing visual hearing aids for the hearing impaired
Availability of supplementary school educational material both at primary and secondary educational level to students.
Setting up of rural BPOs and creation of job opportunities for youth in rural communicates
Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
How does this relate to the National Targets of the WSIS
Action Plan?
WSIS Action Plan - Targets
Connecting villages with ICTs and establishing community access points: Nenasala Project - 600 centers set-up, target 1000
Connecting universities, colleges: Lanka Education & Research Network (LEARN): interconnects educational & research institutions across the country - 24 Universities and Institutions connected
Adapting school curricula to meet challenges of the Information Society: IT education for O/L and A/L students.
Connecting scientific & research centers: Vidatha centers - 250+ set-up.
Connecting public libraries, cultural centers: National union common catalogue at National library.
WSIS Action Plan - Targets
Connecting post offices: Plans underway to connect post offices, provide h/w, s/w and facilitate e-money
Connecting government organizations, establishing website and email: LGN:325 organizations interconnected Email addresses to 270+ government organizations under gov.lk Nearly 300 tri-lingual, standards based websites for govt. orgs e-Government : Re-engineering & automating govt. processes
Development of content and technical conditions to facilitate the use of all world languages. e-Society: societal applications/content for rural communities Unicode compliant fonts in Sinhala and Tamil with standards
based Sinhala and Tamil keyboard layouts.
Access to ICT for more than half the population: ICT Literacy target for 2012 – 60%
C1: Public Governance Authorities & Stakeholders promoting ICT4D
• ICT Agency (ICTA) established July 2003– Vested with powers under ICT Act No.27 of
2003 + ICT Amendment Act 33 of 2008– Apex ICT Policy Agency of the Govt.– Functions under the Office of H.E. the
President
• e-Sri Lanka Development Project– Multi-Donor funded World Bank, Korean EXIM
& JSDF
– Integrated e-Development Model
• Presidential Task Force on IT
• Sub-Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers on HRD
• 2009: Year of ICT and English
C2: Information & Communication Infrastructure
National Backbone Network (NBN)
Objective :Deployment of affordable broadband services throughout Sri Lanka
Island‐wide Ultra High Bandwidth Broadband Backbone Provision of affordable broadband connectivity to all parts of the country Technology Neutral, Least Cost Subsidy Tariff Regulation: Re‐activate ISPs & NFB providers; increase competition
Lanka Government Network (LGN)
Objective :
Highly available, secure backbone to connect the government
Korean Government Support 325 locations ( Phase I) Cover ministries to District Secretariats 150 locations (Phase II) Provincial Councils and Ministries
C2: Information & Communication Infrastructure
Government Businesses Mobile UsersEmployees Visitors WorldwideCitizens
Objective :Accurate & dependable Information on any government service or process over the phone
99% of all government services now available Available: 8am to 8pm, 365 days of the year Tri‐lingual services available Over 2500 calls answered every day Over 2 million calls answered since Aug 2006
C7: ICT Applications: e-Government
STATS:
Sri Lanka ‐70% rural
10 % differently able
25% IT literate
What next after the access (tele‐centre) network ?
Small Grants Programs
C7 & C8: ICT Applications & Local Content: e-Society
e‐ SDI Community Assistance
Grants to CBOs for ICT based solutions to everyday problems
141 Grants awarded
e‐ SDI Community Assistance
Grants to CBOs for ICT based solutions to everyday problems
141 Grants awardede‐ SDI Partnership Assistance
Grants to public or private entity, entrepreneur or NGO
34 Grants awarded
e‐ SDI Partnership Assistance
Grants to public or private entity, entrepreneur or NGO
34 Grants awarded
Spreading benefits of ICT to rural communities, helping them with ICT based solutions for their most pressing issues
175 Projects – over 75,000 people benefitting every month
C7 & C8: ICT Applications & Local Content: e-Society
• Impaired Aid for visual and hearing impaired• Visual Radio – Low cost method of sending local
/disaster related information• Job Bank – local language job listing • SME Portal for small businesses• Crop price tracker for farmers• Local content generation• Rural BPOs • Fishing information by SMS to fishermen
AWARDS
C7 & C8: ICT Applications & Local Content: e-Society
C7: ICT Applications: ICT Industry Development and Investment
11,200 14,946
21,094
31,379
465,186
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Time Line - Sri lanka
Sri Lanka Target Employee Nos. Sri Lanka Target Export Revenue
$1b
$2b
$275 m
“IT/BPO industry to become the #1 revenue earner for Sri Lanka in the next 10 years”
Share Best Practices, Lessons Learnt in planning designing and Implementing integrated e-Development Initiatives, at regional events
Facilitate study tours and visits to Sri Lanka to learn and observe first hand the e-Sri Lanka experience in general and project success stories in particular .
Opportunity to leverage the benefit of the Asia Pacific Telecenter Network Secretariat being hosted at the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
Opportunity to leverage the benefit of one of only threeTele-center.org Academies in Asia Pacific which is set-up in Sri Lanka
Invitation to attend e-Asia 2009, the largest ICT4D conference to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 2nd - 4th December 2009.