Rural youth to benefit from JAVA training course
We were unable to utilize the Industrial Revolutions of the 17th and
18th Centuries for our development. Now the Information Technology
Revolution has dawned. We can develop economically using this good
opportunity. This Information Technology Revolution is our last bus to
development. We must get onto this bus.
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From left : Dambadeniya Development Foundation Senior Manager
Sunil Rodrigo, ICTA Sri Lanka Project Coordinator Jaliya
Jayawardena, University of Colombo School of Computing Director
Ruwan Weerasinghe, OpenArc Group of Companies Chairman Daya
Hettiarachchi, ICTA Sri Lanka Project Manager Sriyananda
Rathnayake, and SOS Children’s Village National Director Ananda
Karunarathne. |
The Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing, Dr.
Ruwan Weerasinghe, who was the Chief Guest on the occasion said so at
the ceremony of introducing a pilot project of JAVA based Software
development for the internet to students from the rural areas with
economic difficulties at the SOS Children’s Village, Kesbewa recently.
The OpenArc Computer and Information School together with the Sri
Lanka Information and Communications Technology Agency pioneered this
project.
Two hundred (200) children with economic difficulties will have the
opportunity of following this “JAVA based software development course
for the internet” a course of six months duration free of charge
pioneered by the OpenArc Computer and Information School and the Sri
Lanka Information and Communications Technology Agency.
Depending on the success of this project, plans are afoot to further
such projects throughout the island.
After this pilot project, opportunities have been provided for the
youth with economic difficulties from remote villages to follow higher
training courses in JAVA based software development at a low cost. |
