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    VanniTech Seminar and Demonstration Draw Interest at Jaffna University and National College of Education
 

November 22, 2005 [VanniTech, Kilinochchi]: VanniTech staff members conducted a seminar and demonstration on emerging ICT technologies to a packed audience of students and staff at University of Jaffna on Thursday November 10, 2005.

This effort is a follow-up to a similar initiative by VanniTech at the Eastern University in Batticaloa in March of this year.

The theme of the presentation and demonstration of state-of-the-art technologies was to underscore the capability of harnessing new technologies to current tried and tested work, business, leisure, and entertainment oriented processes to achieve efficient and optimum operations.  The devastation to the infrastructure in the North-East would be the motivation and driving force to create the infrastructure for these new technologies.  Among the technologies presented were wireless communications (WiFi) and broadband power line communications (BPLC) for Internet access, radio frequency (RFID) and bar code identification in a VanniTech developed library system, use of personal digital assistant (PDA) in a VanniTech developed restaurant ordering system, and computer telephony for cost effective voice over the Internet protocol (VoIP) communications. 
  Students and Staff of Jaffna University in rapt attention during the presentation and demo
 

Over 250 staff and students of the University participated in the morning session, which was hosted by the Faculty of Science. This was followed by a similar session in the afternoon at the same location with non-academic staff of the University. The newly established National College of Education at Kopay hosted the VanniTech team the following day when they repeated the content to an enthusiastic student body of the college.

 

The team of VanniTech faculty was highly appreciated by the senior faculty members of Jaffna University who had paid an official visit to VanniTech recently and expressed their eagerness to share our expertise and resources effectively to complement each of our two institutions. In addition to this willingness, the University Library has come forward to work with VanniTech on the institute’s new product, code named as LIMAS, a library process management and record keeping software that is being developed with an objective of automating the libraries in the North-East region.

  VanniTech faculty team who conducted the presentation and demo, (L to R) Karthiga Thanasinganathan, Anan Ponnambalam, and Subakaran Thangarajan
 

The significance of these seminars was evident in the interest shown by the staff of the medical faculty, library science students and staff of the National College of Education, and the non-academic staff of the university among others for follow-up activities. “We need your technology to automate our medical faculty processes” was the main feed-back from the medical faculty lecturers. The staff and teacher students of the newly built National College of Education were most enthusiastic and eager to visit VanniTech campus in Kilinochchi to “see first hand and learn from VanniTech’s knowledge and experience in ICT”. Mr. Kalaraj who headed the non-academic staff of the University was most anxious to obtain “training in hardware maintenance, services and support” from TechShack, the employment incubation center of VanniTech.
 

 

About VanniTech

VanniTech is an Advanced Technological Institute, and a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka. The objective of VanniTech is to generate high-tech employment in the war torn North-East Sri Lanka and prepare the people in the region to compete in the global market. To meet this objective, VanniTech is offering university-level courses in software development, electronics, and computer communications in English medium. VanniTech instructors include local professionals with degrees from highly reputable universities around the world and international volunteers. VanniTech is founded and funded by ITTPO. Additional information about VanniTech can be found at www.vanni.org and www.ittpo.org.

About ITTPO

ITTPO is an independent, non-profit (501 (c) (3)) organization in the USA, and an approved Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Sri Lanka. ITTPO based in the Silicon Valley region of California, was founded in September 2002 to bring the technical professionals and their supporters around the world under one organization and offer their technical expertise for the development of North-East Sri Lanka. ITTPO is funded by members of the Sri Lankan expatriate community around the world and other individual well-wishers and organizations. Additional information about ITTPO can be found at www.ittpo.org or obtained via email to directors@ittpo.org.

 

 
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