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The launch of the project took place during the inauguration of e-Asia 2009 at BMICH Colombo last Wednesday (Dec. 2) amidst glowing tributes to the President for his courageous leadership in the development of ICT in Sri Lanka.
Partnered by The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC), the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) and the Intel Corporation, the project aims at providing each student with a laptop by 2010.
The simple launch ceremony consisted in the handing over an ‘Intel Classmate’ PC by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to a student who received it from the President’s hand after paying the traditional obeisance embedded in Sri Lankan culture.
The Intel Corporation will be the main source in the provision of the laptops. The Government on its part will exempt Intel from all taxes otherwise applicable to the item.
Laptops go a long way in increasing ICT literacy. Speaking during the inauguration of e-Asia 2009 during which the Intel-sponsored ‘laptop-to-every-student’ programme was launched, the President said that the Government aimed to increase the country’s ICT literacy from the current 30% to 60% by 2012. When a student does not have a laptop for his or her use he or she has to waste much time. Most developed countries have this facility. It is the President’s aim that Sri Lankan students are on a par with the student of the developed world but are at the same time fully safe from the negative aspects of modern technology.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa hands over ‘Intel Classmate’ PC to Colombo D.S. Senayanayake College student Master Maleesha Aryan Sulthanagoda at the e-Asia 2009 inauguration ceremony held in Colombo BMICH recently. Intel Asia Pacific Chairman Navin Shenoy and Intel Country Manager Indika de Zoysa look on.
(Photo: Presidential Media Unit)
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In a further move to fulfilling the Mahinda Chintana policy statement on making the benefits ICT accrue to the people, a project aimed at providing every student with a laptop by 2010 was launched by President Mahinda Rajapaksa recently.
