Monthly Archives: June 2007

FIT wins the Imagine CUP- Sri Lanka for 3rd consecutive time

Imagine Cup Locals winnder 2007

 

Even though I’m not a Microsoft enthusiastic, I’m very much glad to say that FIT won the Imagine Cup Locals for the 3rd consecutive time after the beginning of the tournament. 1st place, 3rd place and 4th place all came under FIT logo and seemed like FIT dominated the tournament this time. So I wish “SARA” the team which will be going to Korea for the international tournament all the best and hope they will be able bring pride to the island.

IT Exhibition – University of Sabaragamuwa

Last week 5 students from our faculty(including me) went to the Faculty of Applied Science of University of Sabaragamuwa. The Faculty is situated in Buttala at a separated place from the Sabaragamuwa University. We went there on last Wednesday(13th June) and stayed there for 4 days and did a stall with some of our projects representing our faculty.

The participation for the exhibition was overwhelming. In all 3 days there were non-stopping cues of school children coming to see the exhibition even from the farthest corners of the central area of Sri Lanka. When we talked with those who were coming to see the exhibition we really understood the state of IT literacy of Sri Lanka. That’s to say that most of the IT literacy and IT boom is centered in mainly Colombo western province and we can even make it focus only to Colombo area. Some of the school children that we talked didn’t even have a computer in their schools much less a computer lab. So even though there’s a GIT (General IT) subject for O/L and A/L students it seems like IT knowledge is not going to rural areas successfully.

But all the credit should go to Faculty of Applied Science of University of Sabaragamuwa for their effort in making that exhibition a success because at least they are taking an effort to take IT to rural areas and hopefully they will get some cooperation from government or private sector in their future efforts. Also I have to thank the students of the faculty for all the help they gave us and the hospitality of the students were amazing and we would certainly help them again if an opportunity is presented because this sort of things are truly in need to make IT spread in Sri Lanka and bring it to a level which will make IT not a luxury for people but a necessity of people.