Sri Lanka’s International Eye Bank (Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society) is one of the world’s biggest, human eyes donor, restoring vision to people in as many as 57 countries, including Japan, Thailand, Egypt and China. [Read More]. According to the Manager of the International Eye Bank, there is a huge potential to collect donor eyes in [...]
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Sri Lanka Eye Bank, World’s Biggest Human Eyes Donor
Posted in Buddhism, Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, The 10 Perfections, tagged Sri Lanka Eye Bank, Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society, The Perfection of Giving (Dāna Pāramitā) on June 28, 2010 | 67 Comments »
Mobile & Telecommunications Centre of Excellence
Posted in IT BPO, SLASSCOM, Sri Lanka, tagged IT BPO, Mobile & Telecommunications Centre of Excellence, SLASSCOM on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
SLASSCOM, the Sri Lankan IT and business process outsourcing chamber, had launched the SLASSCOM Mobile & Telecommunications Centre of Excellence (CoE) couple of days ago. The centre has been established to bring together leading service providers and educational organisations in order to advance the fast growing Mobile & Telco IT/BPO Industry in Sri Lanka and provide [...]
Google Transliteration
Posted in Google Inc., Google Transliteration, Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, tagged AJAX Language API for Transliteration, Google Transliteration on April 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Google Transliteration allows you to type phonetically using Roman characters. Simply type a word the way it sounds in English and Google Transliteration will convert it to its local script. This currently supports 22 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, [...]
University of Moratuwa ranked Number 1 in the world
Posted in GSoC, Software Quality, Sri Lanka, tagged FOSS, Free and Open Source Software, GSoC, GSoC, University of Moratuwa on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
University of Moratuwa has done it again!!! It has emerged as the best university in ‘Software Engineering’ in the world in a highly competitive global competition, held annually. “Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)” which also goes by the name Google Summer of Code is a competition that tests the creativity, talent, abilities and performance of [...]
National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009
Posted in BCS, Software Quality, Sri Lanka, tagged National Best Quality Software Awards, NBQSA 2009 on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Final arrangements are being made for the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009. This year NBQSA is organised for the 11th time and some of Sri Lanka’s best ICT products competed to receive the “NBQSA Seal of Excellence”. The NBQSA – Awards Ceremony and the Gala Dinner is scheduled to be held at the [...]
MTI’s Technology Forum 2009
Posted in BCS, Sri Lanka, tagged MTI’s Technology Forum 2009 on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MTI’s Technology Forum will be held on Thursday 24th September at 6:00 pm the Ceylon Continental Hotel. The event focuses on Strategic Business Direction and Technology Impact. Key areas of coverage are: Business challenges that IT has to deliver on Using Technology with the focus of optimizing how business is done Technology Delivery Management for focused, efficient [...]
Miss Sri Lanka 2009
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, tagged Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gamya Wijedasa will represent Sri Lanka for Miss World 2009 Pageant will be held on December 12, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Domestic flight services to ANY destination
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Sri Lanka Air Force has now commenced domestic flight services to any destination departing from Katunayaka and Ratmalana. The general public can now seek any air route to any interested local destination. The new service is also available from Katunayaka International Air Port enabling passengers arriving at the airport to take an air route [...]
Costa Rica is the World’s Greenest Happiest Country
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the happiness of their citizens. Britain (UK) is only halfway up the Happy Planet Index (HPI), calculated by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), in 74th place of 143 [...]
National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009
Posted in BCS, Sri Lanka on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Invitation to Join the organising of National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009 As you are aware, the British Computer Society - Sri Lanka Section (BCSSL) organises the NBQSA competition annually since 1998. This competition over the past 11 years has created healthy competition among the organisations participating and has contributed to the continuous improvement of the quality of the products developed in [...]
