Sri Lanka: Role of IT in the peace process

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from http://www.developmentgateway.org/ ]


Sri Lanka: Role of IT in the peace process (Daily Mirror, 17 June 
2003)

URL: http://www.dailymirror.lk/2003/06/17/opinion/2.html

Description: 	According to Subimal Bhattacharjee, "The donor meet in 
Japan is just over. This is another significant step in the fragile 
peace process in the country. The world community has pledged immense 
support for the peace process for sometime now, in this donor meet 
they have substantiated this by providing a whopping US $ 4.5 billion 
in aid in support of the peace process for the rebuilding of Sri 
Lanka... The international organisations have also shown a lot of 
interest to fund IT initiatives in Sri Lanka and the role of the 
World Bank and The Commonwealth Secretariat deserves mention. 
Similarly bilateral cooperation will be a hallmark of the peace 
process and many nations are ready to provide the nation with their 
successful IT projects.The question is how the nation is geared to 
absorb all these and give a thrust to the efforts. The eSriLanka plan 
is the best answer here and the formation of the ICT Agency 
envisioned under the plan is seeing the light of the day."