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Shilpa Sayura Foundation - The Shilpa Sayura E-School, Lien Centre For Social Innovation Jan 2010

Shilpa Sayura Foundation - The Shilpa Sayura E-School, Lien Centre For Social Innovation

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In a country like Sri Lanka ravaged by decades of civil war, access to educational resources for an ethnically diverse population is scant at best, leading to disproportionate failure rates among high school students. The Shilpa Sayura team proposes to transform 600 existing tele-centres that facilitate e-learning and self-learning of the national curriculum to a new domain of digital knowledge that develops rural education in Sri Lanka.