ICTA’s ‘mobile portal’ top e-Governance, wins Manthan award

The ‘mobile portal’ the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) presented at the Manthan Award 2012 stood tall among the winners under the e-Governance category.

Member, National Commission for Minorities, India, Syeda Bilgrami Imam handing over the award to ICTA IT Engineer, Dilan Perera for the ICTA Mobile Portal at Manthan award.

The other winners under e-Governance were Department of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries in the Indian state of Jharkhand, Mid-day Meal Authority of Uttar Pradesh, India and the Indian project of Patwari Online Assessment.

The Sri Lankan e-Governance Manthan 2012 winner, ICTA Mobile Portal, shows to the citizens the mobile services offered by all government departments and the services available to their mobile platform. Citizens can easily download government mobile services applications to their phones or send GovSMS (government SMS) through the ICTA mobile portal and directly consume those services.

ICTA mobile portal (www.mobile.icta.lk) has been designed as a one-stop shop for citizens to access government services on the mobile phone. Citizens can easily download Government mobile services applications in their phones or send GovSMS (Government SMS) through the ICTA Mobile Portal and directly consume those services. Additionally citizens are able to find information about the government organisations from the ICTA Mobile Portal. They could find contact information such as address, telephone number, fax number and even the name head of the relevant department and his/her image on the portal.

Along with ICTA Mobile Portal another Sri Lankan project shone at Manthan Award 2012. It was bagged by Jayasiri Radio when it won an award under category, Community Radio.

Another Sri Lankan project which was recognized at Manthan Award 2012 was the “Web Patashala” project organised by the Ministry of Education, State Trading cooperation and Etisalat (pvt) Ltd. This project became a finalist at the Manthan Award 2012 under category e-Education and Learning.