Sri Lanka… 20% of the country’s population and 32% of the employment is fit in to Agriculture sector and it does contribute 12.2 % to Gross Domestic Production. 70% of the population lives in rural Sri Lanka & livelihood of this sector mainly depend on Agricultural Sector.
Nenasala (The Sri Lanka Tele centre Project) also aims to meet the above target group facilitating all information infrastructures, knowledge and ICT based services. The nenasala Centers (The wisdom Canters) now have been enriched by various sectors of society such as Government departments, Non government institute and the private sector.
Together with e-Society programme of ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, Audio Visual Centre of , Department of Agriculture has launched an online learning portal on agriculture and its composites agricultural forum Agriculture Wikipedia & e-learning. The content development of the portal is still ongoing, but there are several areas that has been completed. This portal has been identified as a one of best content in South Asia and won a Award at Manthan Awards 2009.
The Agriculture content portal, goviya.lk alias Wikigoviya is a participatory and interactive web tool for agriculture development through active participation of the Agricultural Community. It is a meeting place for farmers, subject matter experts, academics, researchers’ , government departments, nongovernment organizations and private sector institutions involved in agriculture, students and even the general public.
Wikigoviya is an innovative project aimed at supporting rural agriculture on a mass scale, this web portal provides information related to agriculture in an aesthetically pleasing manner as a web based solution whose traditional flavor will enhance its ability to reach out to rural farmers. Learning material on the site is enriched with multimedia components such as video, audio, animation, pictures, illustrations and text in local languages as well as in English. The Wikigoviya Discussion Forum is open for collaborative documentation with features such as blog posts, forum posting, photo and video uploading with user comments, online chatting and friends. The forum allows users to enrich the site with their ideas and experience and post their opinions on current government policies and other issues. The local language functionality adds to its user friendliness. The Wikigoviya is a free agricultural information provider allowing user engagement and learning. It is attractive, simple in its approach and has an easy navigation structure which encourages the user to delve deep into the website to learn more on areas of particular interest.
The forum component has been developed though the famous social networking platform. All though Wikipedia contents are put in all three languages, sometimes users get confused to find the link on local language content. It seems these facilities are yet to be developed.
For more information
www.goviya.lk
http://www.goviya.lk/enwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Shriyananda Rathnayake
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Good Job!!
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