Gamata IT empowers Hatton
The latest town storming session on Microsoft Sri Lanka's quest to
speed the dispersion of technology to rural communities through the
Gamata IT campaign was held in Hatton with the participation of Zonal
Hatton Education Office, Director Zonal Education M. Rengaraj.
The students of the Shannon Tamil Maha Vidyalayam, Hatton where the
MultiPoint system is now installed, will now have the benefits of
education aided by technology from a very early age. This town storming
session is also the first on the Gamata IT route to touch a Tamil
school.
The town storming campaign also saw the Nenasala felicitated
continued training of teachers, Government agents and youth in the area,
enabling them to pass on the benefits of technology throughout the
community.
Hatton Zonal Education Office Director Zonal Education M. Rengaraj,
said the benefits the community of Hatton would now have access to
through the Gamata IT campaign. "Hatton is very thankful to be a part of
the Gamata IT campaign.
Although we have had technology available, citizens have been
reluctant to get involved in the usage of a computer due to language and
access barriers. With the Sinhala and Tamil Language Interface Packs
available for use, these barriers have now been overcome and we look
forward to a great surge of development through the use of technology.
I would like to thank the Education Ministry and Microsoft Sri Lanka
for making this happen".
Speaking on the benefits of the town storming campaign and the impact
Gamata IT has had on the communities it has touched, Microsoft Sri Lanka
Director Marketing, Manoji Samararatne spoke on the ripple effect Gamata
IT. "Even though the campaign proper lasts only for a few weeks, the
lives we touch go on to empower others in the community to benefit from
technology.
Teachers who will pass on their learning to their students,
Government Agents who will better serve their communities because of the
efficiencies of technology and youth who are now aware of possibilities
and opportunities beyond the confines of their villages are now able to
make not only their own lives better but also the lives of those around
them. We at Microsoft feel that it is in this that our greatest strength
lies - passing on the benefits of technology through a community that
will use it to become self-sufficient and thrive".
The Shannon Tamil Maha Vidyalayam, located on the Shannon Estate,
Hatton, educates over 600 boys and girls from the Hatton community.
These students have thus far had only the slightest glimpse of
technology and are now able to use it in every day activities to further
their education and help them over develop confidence and fluidity in
the use of technology. |