Papers by Shriyananda Rathnayake
International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare, 2014
Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South... more Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South Asia. However, the burdens of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) have increased rapidly during last two decades. NCDs such as neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory pathologies recorded were 10.2, 41.7, 13.3 (related deaths per 100,000 population) respectively during the year 1990. However by 2009, the same NCDs recorded 18.5, 60.6, and 21.9 (related deaths per 100,000 populations) respectively according to the Annual Health Bullatin released by the Medical Statistics Unit - Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition [1]. Most communicable diseases have been controlled successfully (e.g. Malaria, Polio) several infective diseases, such as, Tuberculosis and Leprosy has been re-emerged due to various reasons. Dengue is also still remains a major crisis in Sri Lankan health sector. Health Information Systems have been shown an integral role in health systems in facing double burden of disease, specially quantifying the cost of care. Also, Health Information Systems are one of WHO's 6 building blocks for health system strengthening. This work investigates the Sri Lankan scenario empirically based on selected electronic health information systems to evaluate the effect of reducing uncertainty and promoting coordination in the clinical care pathway.
National IT Conference, Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2015, 2015
Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South... more Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South Asia. However, the burdens of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) have increased rapidly during last two decades. NCDs such as neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory pathologies recorded were 10.2, 41.7, 13.3 (related deaths per 100,000 population) respectively during the year 1990. However by 2009, the same NCDs recorded 18.5, 60.6, and 21.9 (related deaths per 100,000 populations) respectively according to the Annual Health Bullatin released by the Medical Statistics Unit - Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition [1]. Most communicable diseases have been controlled successfully (e.g. Malaria, Polio) several infective diseases, such as, Tuberculosis and Leprosy has been re-emerged due to various reasons. Dengue is also still remains a major crisis in Sri Lankan health sector. Health Information Systems have been shown an integral role in health systems in facing double burden of disease, specially quantifying the cost of care. Also, Health Information Systems are one of WHO's 6 building blocks for health system strengthening. This work investigates the Sri Lankan scenario empirically based on selected electronic health information systems to evaluate the effect of reducing uncertainty and promoting coordination in the clinical care pathway.
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP), 2019
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the lifelong electronic Health Passbook which contains patient... more Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the lifelong electronic Health Passbook which contains patient's health information in a computerized system. This research paper reviews the implementation challenges of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) of Sri Lankan public sector hospitals. The main focus of this paper is to investigate the research gaps in national EMR implementation for systematic empirical study in order to substantiate future doctoral studies. This paper highlights the current status and research gaps of EMR implementation in Sri Lankan public sector hospitals in relation to progress, benefits and challenges. Absence of empirical evidence of systematic investigation on EMR project progress and national plan for implementation concludes with recommendations for future researches.
BMJ Global Health, 2019
Lack of investment in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in systems capturing continu... more Lack of investment in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in systems capturing continuous information regarding care of the acutely unwell patient is hindering global efforts to address inequalities, both at facility and national level. Furthermore, this of lack of data is disempowering frontline staff and those seeking to support them, from progressing setting-relevant research and quality improvement. In contrast to high-income country (HIC) settings, where electronic surveillance has boosted the capability of governments, clinicians and researchers to engage in service-wide healthcare evaluation, healthcare information in resource-limited settings remains almost exclusively paper based. In this practice paper, we describe the efforts of a collaboration of clinicians, administrators, researchers and healthcare informaticians working in South Asia, in addressing the inequality in access to patient information in acute care. Harnessing a clinician-led collaborative approa...
International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare, 2014
In developing countries, implementation of FOSS health information systems demands participation ... more In developing countries, implementation of FOSS health information systems demands participation of diverse organizational actors and, can be considered similar to software outsourcing exercise. The multi sectoral actors operate in a network form of governance model where psychological and social contracts are important in maintain the fabric of the network organization. Inter-personal and inter-organizational trust is a key constituent in psychological and social contracts in IS outsourcing. This article attempt to reflect the empirical evidence of trust based governance of the network organization around 2 FOSS HIS implantation within the state health sector with an inter-organizational trust lenses. The longitudinal case studies try to understand how health managers' trust towards FOSS implementors changed and shaped HIS implementation trajectories with long term repeated interactions during two HIS implementations in Sri Lankan context.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017
In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed information-sh... more In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed information-sharing that limits clinicians' ability to follow patients and impedes public health surveillance. In a project led by the health ministry, we adapted existing technologies to create an electronic platform for rabies surveillance. Information is entered by trained clinical staff, and both aggregate and individual patient data are visualized in real time. An automated short message system (SMS) alerts patients for vaccination follow-up appointments and informs public health inspectors about incidents of animal bites. The platform was rolled out in June 2016 in four districts of Sri Lanka, linking six rabies clinics, three laboratories and the public health inspectorate. Over a 9-month period, 12 121 animal bites were reported to clinics and entered in the registry. Via secure portals, clinicians and public health teams accessed live information on treatment and outcomes of patients star...
GDLN Call for Papers Contest, 2021
This paper discussed and detailed the steps that have been taken forward by the Sri Lankan Govern... more This paper discussed and detailed the steps that have been taken forward by the Sri Lankan Government to assure BCM with regards to ICT context in a disaster. It critically analyzes the current national policy framework, disaster recovery policies, disaster management act, BCP Guidelines No: 01/2006 by Central Bank Sri Lanka, digital government policies and disaster recovery and various sector-specific DR practices in Sri Lanaka comparing them with the rules, policies, legislations and regulations with standards and best practices to promote BCM in technically advanced developed countries. Finally, the paper discusses the various Sri Lankan Government organization encompass in establishing rules, policies, legislations and regulations to secure BCM in a disaster expounding their current roles and future expectations by the industry stakeholders
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2019
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the lifelong electronic Health Passbook which contains patient... more Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the lifelong electronic Health Passbook which contains patient's health information in a computerized system. This research paper reviews the implementation challenges of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) of Sri Lankan public sector hospitals. The main focus of this paper is to investigate the research gaps in national EMR implementation for systematic empirical study in order to substantiate future doctoral studies. This paper highlights the current status and research gaps of EMR implementation in Sri Lankan public sector hospitals in relation to progress, benefits and challenges. Absence of empirical evidence of systematic investigation on EMR project progress and national plan for implementation concludes with recommendations for future researches.
Problem
In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed infor... more Problem
In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed information-sharing that limits clinicians’ ability
to follow patients and impedes public health surveillance.
Approach
In a project led by the health ministry, we adapted existing technologies to create an electronic platform for rabies surveillance.
Information is entered by trained clinical staff, and both aggregate and individual patient data are visualized in real time. An automated
short message system (SMS) alerts patients for vaccination follow-up appointments and informs public health inspectors about incidents
of animal bites.
Introduction: E-Health is the use of information and communication technology for health. E-Healt... more Introduction: E-Health is the use of information and communication technology for health. E-Health policy is a set of statements, directives, regulations, laws, and judicial interpretations that direct and manage the life cycle of eHealth. The absence of policies will cause problems during implementation of eHealth solutions. Implementation of E-Health initiatives are an important strategy in current context since it is one of the most efficient and effective ways of managing patient records. Objective: Objective was to describe the implications of policy issues in implementing an open source electronic health record system in Sri Lankan context.
Methodology: Available secondary literature on health information management in Sri Lanka was scrutinized to identify the issues and subsequently these issues were divided in to 9 key thematic areas for the analysis.
Discussion: Policy issues in relation to Networked care, Diffusion of eHealth, Integration into existing systems, Response to new initiatives and investment were sufficiently addressed in the current context. Although Inter-jurisdictional practice, policy goal setting issues and ethical and legal issues of overall public sector were adequately addressed, the issues in relation to health sector were not adequately addressed due to lack of a finalized eHealth policy. There was an inadequacy of addressing the evaluation and research issues in both public and health sector. Finally it stresses the importance of having health information policy rather than existing E-health policy, since it covers wider context and lead to more comprehensive coverage.
National IT Conference, Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2015, 2015
Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South... more Sri Lanka is well known for its better health indices when compared with other countries in South Asia. However, the burdens of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) have increased rapidly during last two decades. NCDs such as neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory pathologies recorded were 10.2, 41.7, 13.3 (related deaths per 100,000 population) respectively during the year 1990. However by 2009, the same NCDs recorded 18.5, 60.6, and 21.9 (related deaths per 100,000 populations) respectively according to the Annual Health Bullatin released by the Medical Statistics Unit - Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition [1]. Most communicable diseases have been controlled successfully (e.g. Malaria, Polio) several infective diseases, such as, Tuberculosis and Leprosy has been re-emerged due to various reasons. Dengue is also still remains a major crisis in Sri Lankan health sector.
Health Information Systems have been shown an integral role in health systems in facing double burden of disease, specially quantifying the cost of care. Also, Health Information Systems are one of WHO's 6 building blocks for health system strengthening. This work investigates the Sri Lankan scenario empirically based on selected electronic health information systems to evaluate the effect of reducing uncertainty and promoting coordination in the clinical care pathway.
by Tharindu Lakmal, Sajith Udayanga, Science Education, Devanshi Ganegoda, Tesman Maloney, Thiwanka Lahiru, National Intensive Care Surveillance System Sri Lanka, Hasudeen Rajjaz, Sampath Kulathilaka, Shriyananda Rathnayake, Indika Ratnayake, and kavindu Ranasinghe ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, 2014
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential
element in any industry in tod... more Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential
element in any industry in today’s world since it provides an overarching
enabling platform for the human development process. ICT is used for
achieving business goals as well as macro development goals owing to
its transformative power. Digital content also plays a vital role since ICT
has become a part of life for all human beings throughout the world.
A simple example is that a country which has a larger presence on
the internet becomes more popular than one which has less digital
content on internet. It can be said that content is the king and delivery
is the queen.
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become the
knowledge hub of South Asia. To contribute to this national goal, the
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka launched e-Swabhimani, the National Best
e-Content Award in 2009, recognizing the creativity and skill of local
digital content and application developers. It is expected that national
recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social
and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award
process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which
is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on
Information Society and the award is a stepping stone to other regional
and international awards.
This book is a review of 49 white papers which were selected through
e-Swabhimani 2014, Best e-Content and Application award of Sri Lanka.
White papers are normally used in two main spheres, government and
business-to-business marketing. The main objective of this book is to
benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka
in year 2014 and take them to a national and international level.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are
innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. For example, the
white paper on iHelmet is a good solution for ordinary motorbike riders.
It’s an application developed for smart phones and ordinary helmets
which uses Bluetooth, wireless and sensor-based technology to provide
convenience and safety for motorbike riders. This book discussed ICT
innovation in nine categories, namely, e-Government & Institutions,
e-Health & Environment, e-Learning & Education, e-Entertainment & Games, e-Culture & Heritage, e-Science & Technology, e-Business & Commerce, e-Inclusion & Participation and m-Content.
In developing countries, implementation of FOSS health information systems demands participation ... more In developing countries, implementation of FOSS health information systems demands participation of
diverse organizational actors and, can be considered similar to software outsourcing exercise. The multi
sectoral actors operate in a network form of governance model where psychological and social contracts are
important in maintain the fabric of the network organization. Inter-personal and inter-organizational trust
is a key constituent in psychological and social contracts in IS outsourcing. This article attempt to reflect the
empirical evidence of trust based governance of the network organization around 2 FOSS HIS implantation
within the state health sector with an inter-organizational trust lenses. The longitudinal case studies try to
understand how health managers’ trust towards FOSS implementors changed and shaped HIS implementation
trajectories with long term repeated interactions during two HIS implementations in Sri Lankan context.
Information Communication Technological innovation is assumed to help economic growth. Over Last ... more Information Communication Technological innovation is assumed to help economic growth. Over Last three decades investment on Information communication technology in Sri Lanka has rapidly increased with the objective of developing the economy, reducing poverty and ultimately improving the quality of life. These kinds of investment & project now become ubiquitous in development arena. But still, it is a question that what is the best way to evaluate & identify success or failure of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for development initiatives in human development dimension.
This paper discusses the use of Capability Approach (CA) which conceived in 1980 by Amartya Sen as a frame work to evaluate welfare economic. Sen (2001, p 38) identified “five type of instrumental freedom” is used to analyze the best Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) applications (Winners of e-Swabhimani) developed in Sri Lanka. This paper concludes with a review of the high and low impact areas of capabilities advanced through ICT for Development initiatives.
Books by Shriyananda Rathnayake
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential industry in today’s world, sin... more Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential industry in today’s world, since it provides an overarching enabling platform for the human development process. ICT is used for achieving business goals as well as macro development goals owing to its transformative power. Digital content also plays a vital role as ICT has become a part of life for all human beings throughout the world.
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become a digitally inclusive nation. To achieve this national goal, the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka implements e-Swabhimani, the National Best e-Content Award with the aim of recognizing the creativity and skills of local digital content and application developers. It is expected that national recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society and the e-Swabhimani award is a stepping stone to other regional and international awards.
This book contains white papers selected from applicants of e-Swabhimani 2016.The main objective of this book is to benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka in the year 2016 and take the products/ services and the developers to a national and international levels.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. This book presents 41 white papers on ICT innovations under nine categories, namely, Government & Open Data, Health & Environment, Learning & Science, Entertainment & Lifestyle, Culture & Tourism, Media & News, Business & Commerce, Inclusion & Empowerment and m-Content.
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Papers by Shriyananda Rathnayake
In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed information-sharing that limits clinicians’ ability
to follow patients and impedes public health surveillance.
Approach
In a project led by the health ministry, we adapted existing technologies to create an electronic platform for rabies surveillance.
Information is entered by trained clinical staff, and both aggregate and individual patient data are visualized in real time. An automated
short message system (SMS) alerts patients for vaccination follow-up appointments and informs public health inspectors about incidents
of animal bites.
Methodology: Available secondary literature on health information management in Sri Lanka was scrutinized to identify the issues and subsequently these issues were divided in to 9 key thematic areas for the analysis.
Discussion: Policy issues in relation to Networked care, Diffusion of eHealth, Integration into existing systems, Response to new initiatives and investment were sufficiently addressed in the current context. Although Inter-jurisdictional practice, policy goal setting issues and ethical and legal issues of overall public sector were adequately addressed, the issues in relation to health sector were not adequately addressed due to lack of a finalized eHealth policy. There was an inadequacy of addressing the evaluation and research issues in both public and health sector. Finally it stresses the importance of having health information policy rather than existing E-health policy, since it covers wider context and lead to more comprehensive coverage.
Health Information Systems have been shown an integral role in health systems in facing double burden of disease, specially quantifying the cost of care. Also, Health Information Systems are one of WHO's 6 building blocks for health system strengthening. This work investigates the Sri Lankan scenario empirically based on selected electronic health information systems to evaluate the effect of reducing uncertainty and promoting coordination in the clinical care pathway.
element in any industry in today’s world since it provides an overarching
enabling platform for the human development process. ICT is used for
achieving business goals as well as macro development goals owing to
its transformative power. Digital content also plays a vital role since ICT
has become a part of life for all human beings throughout the world.
A simple example is that a country which has a larger presence on
the internet becomes more popular than one which has less digital
content on internet. It can be said that content is the king and delivery
is the queen.
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become the
knowledge hub of South Asia. To contribute to this national goal, the
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka launched e-Swabhimani, the National Best
e-Content Award in 2009, recognizing the creativity and skill of local
digital content and application developers. It is expected that national
recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social
and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award
process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which
is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on
Information Society and the award is a stepping stone to other regional
and international awards.
This book is a review of 49 white papers which were selected through
e-Swabhimani 2014, Best e-Content and Application award of Sri Lanka.
White papers are normally used in two main spheres, government and
business-to-business marketing. The main objective of this book is to
benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka
in year 2014 and take them to a national and international level.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are
innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. For example, the
white paper on iHelmet is a good solution for ordinary motorbike riders.
It’s an application developed for smart phones and ordinary helmets
which uses Bluetooth, wireless and sensor-based technology to provide
convenience and safety for motorbike riders. This book discussed ICT
innovation in nine categories, namely, e-Government & Institutions,
e-Health & Environment, e-Learning & Education, e-Entertainment & Games, e-Culture & Heritage, e-Science & Technology, e-Business & Commerce, e-Inclusion & Participation and m-Content.
diverse organizational actors and, can be considered similar to software outsourcing exercise. The multi
sectoral actors operate in a network form of governance model where psychological and social contracts are
important in maintain the fabric of the network organization. Inter-personal and inter-organizational trust
is a key constituent in psychological and social contracts in IS outsourcing. This article attempt to reflect the
empirical evidence of trust based governance of the network organization around 2 FOSS HIS implantation
within the state health sector with an inter-organizational trust lenses. The longitudinal case studies try to
understand how health managers’ trust towards FOSS implementors changed and shaped HIS implementation
trajectories with long term repeated interactions during two HIS implementations in Sri Lankan context.
This paper discusses the use of Capability Approach (CA) which conceived in 1980 by Amartya Sen as a frame work to evaluate welfare economic. Sen (2001, p 38) identified “five type of instrumental freedom” is used to analyze the best Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) applications (Winners of e-Swabhimani) developed in Sri Lanka. This paper concludes with a review of the high and low impact areas of capabilities advanced through ICT for Development initiatives.
Books by Shriyananda Rathnayake
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become a digitally inclusive nation. To achieve this national goal, the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka implements e-Swabhimani, the National Best e-Content Award with the aim of recognizing the creativity and skills of local digital content and application developers. It is expected that national recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society and the e-Swabhimani award is a stepping stone to other regional and international awards.
This book contains white papers selected from applicants of e-Swabhimani 2016.The main objective of this book is to benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka in the year 2016 and take the products/ services and the developers to a national and international levels.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. This book presents 41 white papers on ICT innovations under nine categories, namely, Government & Open Data, Health & Environment, Learning & Science, Entertainment & Lifestyle, Culture & Tourism, Media & News, Business & Commerce, Inclusion & Empowerment and m-Content.
In Sri Lanka, rabies prevention initiatives are hindered by fragmented and delayed information-sharing that limits clinicians’ ability
to follow patients and impedes public health surveillance.
Approach
In a project led by the health ministry, we adapted existing technologies to create an electronic platform for rabies surveillance.
Information is entered by trained clinical staff, and both aggregate and individual patient data are visualized in real time. An automated
short message system (SMS) alerts patients for vaccination follow-up appointments and informs public health inspectors about incidents
of animal bites.
Methodology: Available secondary literature on health information management in Sri Lanka was scrutinized to identify the issues and subsequently these issues were divided in to 9 key thematic areas for the analysis.
Discussion: Policy issues in relation to Networked care, Diffusion of eHealth, Integration into existing systems, Response to new initiatives and investment were sufficiently addressed in the current context. Although Inter-jurisdictional practice, policy goal setting issues and ethical and legal issues of overall public sector were adequately addressed, the issues in relation to health sector were not adequately addressed due to lack of a finalized eHealth policy. There was an inadequacy of addressing the evaluation and research issues in both public and health sector. Finally it stresses the importance of having health information policy rather than existing E-health policy, since it covers wider context and lead to more comprehensive coverage.
Health Information Systems have been shown an integral role in health systems in facing double burden of disease, specially quantifying the cost of care. Also, Health Information Systems are one of WHO's 6 building blocks for health system strengthening. This work investigates the Sri Lankan scenario empirically based on selected electronic health information systems to evaluate the effect of reducing uncertainty and promoting coordination in the clinical care pathway.
element in any industry in today’s world since it provides an overarching
enabling platform for the human development process. ICT is used for
achieving business goals as well as macro development goals owing to
its transformative power. Digital content also plays a vital role since ICT
has become a part of life for all human beings throughout the world.
A simple example is that a country which has a larger presence on
the internet becomes more popular than one which has less digital
content on internet. It can be said that content is the king and delivery
is the queen.
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become the
knowledge hub of South Asia. To contribute to this national goal, the
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka launched e-Swabhimani, the National Best
e-Content Award in 2009, recognizing the creativity and skill of local
digital content and application developers. It is expected that national
recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social
and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award
process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which
is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on
Information Society and the award is a stepping stone to other regional
and international awards.
This book is a review of 49 white papers which were selected through
e-Swabhimani 2014, Best e-Content and Application award of Sri Lanka.
White papers are normally used in two main spheres, government and
business-to-business marketing. The main objective of this book is to
benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka
in year 2014 and take them to a national and international level.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are
innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. For example, the
white paper on iHelmet is a good solution for ordinary motorbike riders.
It’s an application developed for smart phones and ordinary helmets
which uses Bluetooth, wireless and sensor-based technology to provide
convenience and safety for motorbike riders. This book discussed ICT
innovation in nine categories, namely, e-Government & Institutions,
e-Health & Environment, e-Learning & Education, e-Entertainment & Games, e-Culture & Heritage, e-Science & Technology, e-Business & Commerce, e-Inclusion & Participation and m-Content.
diverse organizational actors and, can be considered similar to software outsourcing exercise. The multi
sectoral actors operate in a network form of governance model where psychological and social contracts are
important in maintain the fabric of the network organization. Inter-personal and inter-organizational trust
is a key constituent in psychological and social contracts in IS outsourcing. This article attempt to reflect the
empirical evidence of trust based governance of the network organization around 2 FOSS HIS implantation
within the state health sector with an inter-organizational trust lenses. The longitudinal case studies try to
understand how health managers’ trust towards FOSS implementors changed and shaped HIS implementation
trajectories with long term repeated interactions during two HIS implementations in Sri Lankan context.
This paper discusses the use of Capability Approach (CA) which conceived in 1980 by Amartya Sen as a frame work to evaluate welfare economic. Sen (2001, p 38) identified “five type of instrumental freedom” is used to analyze the best Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) applications (Winners of e-Swabhimani) developed in Sri Lanka. This paper concludes with a review of the high and low impact areas of capabilities advanced through ICT for Development initiatives.
Today, Sri Lanka is on a strategic path, aiming to become a digitally inclusive nation. To achieve this national goal, the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka implements e-Swabhimani, the National Best e-Content Award with the aim of recognizing the creativity and skills of local digital content and application developers. It is expected that national recognition would spur a greater interest in leveraging ICT for the social and economic development of the country. The e-Swabhimani Award process is being conducted along the lines of the World Summit which is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society and the e-Swabhimani award is a stepping stone to other regional and international awards.
This book contains white papers selected from applicants of e-Swabhimani 2016.The main objective of this book is to benchmark the best e-content and applications developed in Sri Lanka in the year 2016 and take the products/ services and the developers to a national and international levels.
It has been identified that most of e-content and applications are innovative in answering a problem in today’s world. This book presents 41 white papers on ICT innovations under nine categories, namely, Government & Open Data, Health & Environment, Learning & Science, Entertainment & Lifestyle, Culture & Tourism, Media & News, Business & Commerce, Inclusion & Empowerment and m-Content.