E-Sri Lanka: Transforming a nation through ICT

The online Government Information Centre, '1919', and the Impaired Aid project won awards at the 2009 World Summit Awards (WSA), a global initiative for selecting and promoting the world's best e-contents and applications.

Both projects are part of e-Sri Lanka, one of the first World Bank projects designed to bring Information Communication Technology (ICT) to every village, citizen, and business, and transform the way the Government thinks and works.

The vision expressed at the launch of the project in 2004 was that e-Sri Lanka aspires to the ideal of making Sri Lanka the most connected Government to its people, and raising the quality of life of all its citizens with access to better public services, learning opportunities, and information. Sri Lanka is now on course to realizing this vision.

The E-Sri Lanka Development Project was developed collaboratively between the World Bank South Asia Region's Finance and Private Sector Development Unit and the Global ICT Unit.