Kasun Erandi, now a graduate of Kelaniya University and currently employed at the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), is someone who came and met me around one and a half years ago as she was writing her thesis on new media and citizen journalism in Sri Lanka. I was happy to note that she had gone […]
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Layered Video: Web video’s next big thing?
Guy Gunaratne and I have known each other for a few years, and were first acquainted in the lead up to a film he went on to produce and show around the world, The Truth That Wasn’t There. Having subsequently set up his own production company CODOC with a few others, Guy’s most recent venture […]
The skeletons in all our cupboards: Google Earth’s importance in recent Sri Lankan history
Cross-posted from my personal blog. ### To remember is a choice, a hard one. To remember is to hold in check those who wish to return to the horrors of the past. To not revisit policies that led to past horrors is to give Sri Lanka a greater chance of healing, and reconciliation. And yet, […]
A Twitter storm over a cartoon
On Groundviews this morning, I covered in detail conversations on Twitter with Sri Lankans and Indians on the publication of an utterly tasteless cartoon, depicting the Prime Minister of India and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, in the Sunday edition of Lakbima, a newspaper with good circulation and owned by a businessman very close […]
The long arc of Nandikadal: New media bearing witness
Cross-posted from my personal blog, and published as my regular column in the print edition of The Nation, on 9 September 2012. ### Recent events in Tamil Nadu demonstrate the risk inherent in what most suggest is the Rajapaksa regime’s LLRC gambit – to drag on a process of enfeebled accountability and reductive reconciliation until […]
Legal Guarantees for FOE in Sri Lanka and how they are being eroded (in English, Sinhala and Tamil)
Legal Guarantees for FOE in Sri Lanka and how they are being eroded from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
Legal Guarantees for FOE in Sri Lanka and how they are being eroded (Sinhala) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
Legal Guarantees for FOE in Sri Lanka and how they are being eroded (Tamil) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
See related posters on Flickr here.
How you can use the Internet and Web (in English, Sinhala and Tamil)
How you can use the Internet and Web from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
How you can use the Internet and Web (Sinhala) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
How you can use the Internet and Web (Tamil) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
See related posters on Flickr here.
Be Safe! You Are Being Watched! (in English, Sinhala and Tamil)
Be Safe! You Are Being Watched! from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
Be Safe! You Are Being Watched! (Sinhala) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
Be Safe! You Are Being Watched! (Tamil) from Centre for Policy Alternatives on Vimeo.
See related posters on Flickr here.
Content to combat growing surveillance and censorship of online content in Sri Lanka
Just put out this press release on behalf of the Centre for Policy Alternatives. ### 3 September 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka: In late July 2012, the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) released in Tamil, Sinhala and English, three short-form videos and informative posters on online freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. This content is now […]
On the registration of ‘news’ websites in Sri Lanka
ITN’s website on Thursday featured a story on the caring side of government, if this wasn’t already evident to citizens. It noted, “There have been continuous complaints from the general public about certain websites publishing malicious, defamatory and row (sic) filth and stories defamatory to the characters of certain people. Therefore, it has become necessary […]
