Launching of an Electronic Procurement Management Information System (PROMISe)

NewsBy admin May 29, 2019

Addressing the long awaited need of the public sector and marking the most transformational change in the Sri Lankan, public procurement domain, the Ministry of Finance is introducing an electronic procurement system which facilitates an efficient and transparent procurement process in the entire public sector.
The Finance Minister, Hon. Mangala Samaraweera launched this web portal today (29 May 2019) at the Ministry of Finance to facilitate the e-procurement system for procurement of all the goods, services and works in the public sector.

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Sinhala is almost there for IDNs

NewsBy admin March 22, 2019

Sinhala is almost there for IDNs and rules will be integrated with other Indic Languages and this was carried out in almost less than year!

“SANHINDA” SLRC TELEVISION PROGRAM PUBLICIZE THE LOCAL LANGUAGE TECHNICAL HELP CENTER

NewsBy admin March 22, 2019

Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhane COO – Theekshana and Dr. Randil Pushpananda – Senior Lecturer – UCSC participated in the Sanhinda TV Program on the 11th of March 2019 in order to publicize the recently inaugurated Local Language Technical Help Center.

Launching the Local Language Help Center – 0117024957

NewsBy admin March 6, 2019

The Local Language Help Center was launched today at the University of Colombo. The launch was organized by Theekshana, through which the Center will operate.

The objective of this venture is to address issues which users may still encounter when using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Sinhala and Tamil.

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Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhana is the Co-Chair of the Generation Panel for the Sinhala script

NewsBy admin December 17, 2018

Harsha Wijayawardhana is the Co-Chair of the Generation Panel for the Sinhala script. He has more than 25 years of experience in information and communications technology (ICT) and has been involved in UNICODE Sinhala research for more than 10 years. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Theekshana, a company at the University of Colombo School of Computing in Sri Lanka.

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Signing of the Contract Agreement on the AFIS beetween Sri Lanka Police and Theekshana

Events, NewsBy admin November 2, 2018

Theekshana had signed a contract agreement with Sri Lanka Police for the maintenance of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System from 2018 – 2022. The signing ceremony was held on 2nd of November at the Special Task Force Unit of Sri Lanka Police. S/DIG Mr. M.R. Latiff Commandant of the Special Task Force (STF) , SP…

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Mr. Wijayawardhana elevated as a Fellow of BCS

NewsBy admin October 22, 2018

Mr. Harsha Wijayawardhana , COO of Theekshana has been elevated as a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Proposal for Sinhala Script Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules has been published for the public comments.

NewsBy admin October 12, 2018

The proposal for Sinhala Script Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules has been published for public comment and can be found at https://www.icann.org/public-comments/sinhala-lgr-2018-10-02-en

Moves afoot to enable usage of Sinhala script domain names

Events, NewsBy admin December 26, 2017

In a bid to accessibility of internet and related technology for Sri Lankans, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week launched the Sinhala General Panel to commenced work enabling usage of domain names and access content in language. The move will enable the local community contribute towards developing secure and stable…

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ICANN Discusses Future of the Internet in Sri Lanka

Events, NewsBy admin December 20, 2017

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today discussed the evolution of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) and its potential implication for Sri Lanka. ICANN is currently overseeing one of the biggest changes ever in the history of the Internet with its New Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program. This is driving the…

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