ලංකාවේ ටියුෂන් උප සංසකෘතිය වෙනුවට eLearning ආදේශ කළ හැකිද? – ඉසුර සිල්වා
ඉසුර අපිත් සමග කරපු සාකච්චා මාලාවේ පළමු වැනි සාකච්චාව. ලංකාවේ ටියුෂන් උප සංසකෘතිය වෙනුවට eLearning ආදේශ කළ හැකිද?
Fuelled by passion and a vision to grow rural social enterprises using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) in Sri Lanka, since 2006 Isura have led Sarvodaya-Fusion (www.fusion.lk), a leading IT for development social enterprise whose mission is to bring digital access, digital literacy and digital benefits to every person in Sri Lanka. The organization runs over 120 IT centers in Sri Lanka on franchise model and builds cross cutting programs in sectors of education, agriculture, micro-finance, employability, youth and women empowerment.
With over 40,000 rural youth trained over 12 years, Isura has always put the community’s needs and requirements first. He was featured in “40 Under 40” in Echelon magazine as one of 2014 most important risk takers, job creators and rule breakers in Sri Lanka. His mission is to keep on co-creating platforms by connecting corporate, government, and NGO partners to help rural entrepreneurs thrive in education, job creation and employment.
At Sarvodaya-Fusion, He connected CSR programs of global corporates including Microsoft, CISCO, Facebook, HSBC and Etisalat. With World Bank I led a 4 country social enterprise innovation program (Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh). Sarvodaya-Fusion entered in to MoUs with 4 important Government ministries: Min. of Education, Min. of Telecom & Digital Infrastructure, Ministry of Skills Development & Vocational Training and Min. of Disaster Management as their community partner.I serve as the Sri Lankan Community Partner contact point for Open Government Partnership ( OGP) in ‘ICT’ theme working closely with Min. of Telecom & Digital Infrastructure. The “Android Eco System” designed to introduce smart devices to rural development was heralded as a unique case study in the United Nations’ Information Economy report 2012. He is a speaker and coach on development of creativity, innovation, future jobs and startups. He has delivered a TEDx Colombo talk in 2014.
He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering, from the University of Moratuwa (2004) and a passed finalist of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) (2004). A voracious Online learner. he has completed multiple certificates in Coursera on Data Science from Johns Hopkins University and on a daily basis he is learning on LinkedIn learning and Udemy. Reading latest tech and management books is his hobby to adapt himself to latest trends and positively engage organisations he is connected to.
By Sanjaya Elvitigala
තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ සන්නිවේදන ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ වසර 15කට අධික ප්‍රායෝගික අත්දැකීම් ඇති ව්‍යවසායකයෙකු වන සංජය ඇල්විටිගල මහතා eLearning Digital Content Development, Learning Management Systems, SaaS Platforms, Search Engine Optimization, Digital Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship වැනි අංශයන් පිළිබඳව හසල දැනුමක් ඇති අයෙක් වන අතර eLearning.lk ආයතනයේ සම නිර්මාතෘවරයෙක් සහ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂකවරයාද වනවා.
