e-Swabhimani - 2010 Computer Software Competition :

UCSC wins awards

UCSC, Language Technology Research Laboratory Head Dr Ruwan Weerasinghe with the winners from the Subasa and Shikshaka project.

The University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) has won three awards and two special merit certificates at e-Swabhimani 2010 Competition which recognized Excellence in Digital Content Creation.

This event was organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), the apex body responsible of implementing the e-Sri Lanka Development Initiative. The awards presentation ceremony of e-Swabhimani 2010 competition was held at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo with the participation of Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa and the Secretary to the President Lalith Weerathunga recently. There were 163 entries covering participation from all parts of the country.

They were classified under 11 categories and awards were presented to the winning entries. The UCSC won these awards for the Theekshana software for the Birth, Marriage and Death Certificated Digitization Project under the e-Government 2010 category, the Language Technology Research Laboratory software for the Subasa project (www.subasa.lk) that is providing internet services for Sinhala language under the e-Inclusion category and the Niva-rana project (www.nivarana.lk) developed as a student project under the e-Health category.