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Social Impact of Fusion programmes
Measuring Social Impact of Fusion (Nov, 2010) What is the social impact of Fusion? How do we measure them? What are the tools to measure them? How to ensure methodological rigour? Fusion team (together with eNovation) has spent a lot of time and effort, over last two years to answer these questions. With SROI calculations, we learned, that every US$1 we spent [...]
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Connecting poor to the Digital age
Over 80% of the 21 million people in Sri Lanka are not connected to the Digital Age. Our successful approach to empower them consists of; Partnering with communities to set up Libraries (Village Information centres; VIC) Facilitate sustainable Telecentres Provide ICT skills to children, youth and women Develop knowledge services to farmers Our participatory approach to e-empowerment integrates with their [...]
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Best mileage for donor funds
Every $ reach best mileage in Fusion. We systematically employ two key strategies to ensure this; Sustainability and Need based delivery. During last 3 years (2004 - 2007), 4 major donor institutions supported our mission. Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP), provided 100,000US$ during 2004. Project target was to set up 12 telecentres and 257 scholarships by 2006. Need based [...]
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We help them!
Over 2 million poor children in Sri Lanka dream to touch a computer. Our effort is to materialize their aspirations. 121 Village Information Centres (VIC) guide them in this journey. 2008 / 2009: During 2008, we have introduced ICTs to 212,400 poor people, in 10 districts of Sri Lanka. Impact we made includes: over 5000 acquired help desk services about [...]
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Story of village empowerment
Any village affiliated to Sarvodaya goes through a village graduation process. They begin the process as very basic programs such as construction of entry roads, clearing water tanks etc. which demands collective sharing of labour (Shramadana) to meet a common objective. Such a humble beginnings leads to grandeur engagements as time goes by. Following are two [...]
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SmartPhone 4D - Fusion’s latest research entry
Posted on 12 July 2011
Is SmartPhone the next telecentre for ‘Generation Y’? We have launched our new action research to answer this question, with Android (Nexus One) phones donated by Google, in June, 2011. SmartPhones are distributed to seven selected village communities in seven districts in Sri Lanka. Initial responses of the village youth, ages 10 - 15, ‘Generation [...] Continue Reading
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Mr. Madu Rathnayake, is elected as the new chairman of Sarvodaya-Fusion
Posted on 14 February 2011
By Harsha Goonewardana Mr. Madu Rathnayake was elected as the new chairman of the board of Fusion- Sarvodaya on 25th of January 2011. He recieved a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management and a B.Eng form City University, London, and is the General Manager of the software giant Virtusa. Mr Rathnayake, is a [...] Continue Reading
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Telecentre family of Sri Lanka >> Building a coalition of telecentre operators connecting every telecentre (including Nanasala of ICTA) towards a sustainable national telecentre network |
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Sharing knowledge with rural farmers >> Providing Pest & Disease information to rural farmers in order to improve productivity |
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Sarvodaya Information Technology Unit >> Provide ICT education and IT access to poor communities through Sarvodaya village network |
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Village Information Centers >> Prepare the rural communities of Sarvodaya village network to Digital Age |
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Sarvodaya our mother organization >> Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s biggest charity, is dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of rural Sri Lankans. Our grassroots movement now reaches 15,000 villages in 34 districts with 1,500 staff throughout Sri Lanka. |
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SarvodayaUK our strategic partner >> Registered Charity in UK to support Sarvodaya through fund raising, partnership building and research. |
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