Comments on: The internet for peace building http://greenhornetlk.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/the-internet-for-peace-building/ Sri Lanka can be reformed. But not the way you think. Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:44:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sam http://greenhornetlk.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/the-internet-for-peace-building/#comment-81 Sam Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:39:07 +0000 http://greenhornetlk.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/the-internet-for-peace-building/#comment-81 For me ict4peace is just another organization that service nice short-eats in meetings. Before ICT run in to new grounds, it must complete it is main task. In Sri Lanka we still have licensing fee for ISPs, VOIP is still illegal for public, and even for us to get a [.lk] domain name have to submit a ‘printed letters in the letterheads with rubber stamp on it’. I used to say it would be easier to get a [.el] domain name if we had a chance, than getting a [.lk] domain name. (i hope it wont be true) ict4peace can talk about how nice the internet is. But everyone knows that already. That is why we pay our tax money to ICT. If ICT done their work in the first place in the area they suppose to work – most probably TRC won’t take over internet users in Sri Lanka. May be more people in Sri Lanka will have internet. Then may be I do not have to pay 25000 Rs per a month for 64kbps internet line and others who do not fortunate enough to rob a bank wont be jealous of me. For me ict4peace is just another organization that service nice short-eats in meetings. Before ICT run in to new grounds, it must complete it is main task. In Sri Lanka we still have licensing fee for ISPs, VOIP is still illegal for public, and even for us to get a [.lk] domain name have to submit a ‘printed letters in the letterheads with rubber stamp on it’. I used to say it would be easier to get a [.el] domain name if we had a chance, than getting a [.lk] domain name. (i hope it wont be true)

ict4peace can talk about how nice the internet is. But everyone knows that already. That is why we pay our tax money to ICT.
If ICT done their work in the first place in the area they suppose to work – most probably TRC won’t take over internet users in Sri Lanka. May be more people in Sri Lanka will have internet. Then may be I do not have to pay 25000 Rs per a month for 64kbps internet line and others who do not fortunate enough to rob a bank wont be jealous of me.

]]> By: Deane http://greenhornetlk.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/the-internet-for-peace-building/#comment-56 Deane Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:03:07 +0000 http://greenhornetlk.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/the-internet-for-peace-building/#comment-56 I must say yours is one of the blogs i agree with the most of the time. I agree the content on the internet doesnt reach the masses. But everything has to start in some form or the other, and this is a start. There seem to be a lot of people who have something very serious to say in blogosphere. The good that comes out of it is it's very likely that when people who read blogs such as these and others go out in their physical world they would often refer to and borrow from the content, and various arguments online. Which in a sense is a form of spreading. I think we would see more Sinhalese content in the near future when sinhala standardaized fonts becomes installed by default in Windows. I think they expect is as soon as the next version of windows is released. Perhaps the reason Capitalism is looked down oupon to a degree is because it sound really bad in Sinhala 'Danawadaya' just sounds so worse than capitalism, and yes you would often find people 'accused' of being capitalists and 'neoliberals' as if capitalism is something to be looked down oupon. I must say yours is one of the blogs i agree with the most of the time.

I agree the content on the internet doesnt reach the masses. But everything has to start in some form or the other, and this is a start.

There seem to be a lot of people who have something very serious to say in blogosphere. The good that comes out of it is it’s very likely that when people who read blogs such as these and others go out in their physical world they would often refer to and borrow from the content, and various arguments online. Which in a sense is a form of spreading.

I think we would see more Sinhalese content in the near future when sinhala standardaized fonts becomes installed by default in Windows. I think they expect is as soon as the next version of windows is released.

Perhaps the reason Capitalism is looked down oupon to a degree is because it sound really bad in Sinhala ‘Danawadaya’ just sounds so worse than capitalism, and yes you would often find people ‘accused’ of being capitalists and ‘neoliberals’ as if capitalism is something to be looked down oupon.

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