ICT should not sow hatred and intolerance - President at GSR 12

Strategists and regulators in telecommunications and ICT should think of ways to prevent this great technology being used to sow hatred and examine how to avoid the advances of instant communication being the source and cause of violence against faiths, cultures and traditions that need respect and protection,

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The Human Dimension

Children’s Day - can we do something more?

Yesterday was the World Children’s Day - my five year old daughter came home from school, happy that she got to participate in activities related to World Children’s Day. From media to institutions, everyone remembered that yesterday indeed was an important day.

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Small tanks and food security in ancient SL

Small village tanks laid the foundation for an agrarian society based on a ‘one-tank one village’ ecological pattern in the initial stages of state formation in Sri Lanka. Topographical surveyors of the latter part of the nineteenth century have observed that there was one small village reservoir in each square mile in the South-Eastern part of the island.

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