Sujata Gamage

LIRNEasia · Human Capital Research

Knowledgeable and motivated policy intellectuals are needed for effective information and communication technology policy and regulation. This article describes a Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC)–influenced conference and training program intended to develop such policy intellectuals in the Asia Pacific and Africa, which began in...

Novel approaches to learning such as student-centered learning, self-directed learning, hybrid learning, and flipped classrooms were not just theories but imperatives for engaging students in education in distance mode during the pandemic, but teachers were not fully prepared to take advantage of the opportunity. For those who tried, evaluating stu...

Internet or broadcast TV were the only options available for distance education during school closures due to COVID-19, but Internet resources are limited in poor countries, and broadcast TV for distance education is largely untested. We surveyed a purposive sample of teachers who had made a good faith effort to engage students in the distance mo...

ICT in education as practiced in Sri Lanka can be differentiated as 'ICT education' and 'ICT as an enabler of education". Although the stated objectives of policymakers or funders is the latter, after nearly two decades of investments in ICT infrastructure and teacher training in Sri Lanka, ICT as a stand-alone subject to be tested through examinat...

ICT in education as practiced in Sri Lanka can be differentiated as ‘ICT education’ and ‘ICT as an enabler of education’. Although the stated objectives of policymakers or funders is the latter, after nearly two decades of investments in ICT infrastructure and teacher training in Sri Lanka, ICT as a stand-alone subject to be tested through examinat...

Advances in 3-D printing, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence are certain to change the workplace of the future, but the shape and form of such a workplace is less certain. In this paper Sujata Gamage presents a case of advocacy on imparting and assessing transversal competencies s at country level, but informed by regional or global...

Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands is a critical reference guide to development of education in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Comoros Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zanzibar. The chapters provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing particularly on contemporary education polici...

Sri Lanka enjoys a unique position among its neighbors in south Asia and the Indian Ocean islands. It has the highest literacy rate and highest secondary enrollment rates in the region, but the country’s reported secondary completions and tertiary enrollments are low in comparison. The overarching issues in Sri Lanka then include (1) a primary to s...

The public sector is the first choice in higher education for the average family in Sri Lanka. Private higher education is growing, but it will not make a dent in the demand for higher education by these families. Besides being free-of-charge, the public higher education sphere offers a zone of comfort and familiarity for the average Sri Lankan you...

This paper presents a new framework for understanding inter-organizational CoPs which have received less attention than they deserve from knowledge managers. The impetus for this paper is an action research project titled “Knowledge to Innovation in Solid Waste Management at Local authorities in Sri Lanka” which was carried out during the Jan 2008-...

Policy impact is the ultimate goal of policy research. Different kinds of organizational forms to enable/enhance policy impact have emerged. It is useful to evaluate such organizational forms periodically. The ‘organizations’ enabling the taking of research to policy can range from very loose forms through tightly networked associations of research...

Policy impact is the ultimate goal of policy research. Different kinds of organizational forms to enable/enhance policy impact have emerged. It is useful to evaluate such organizational forms periodically to evaluate their performance. The ‘organizations’ facilitating the taking of research to policy can range from very loose forms through tightly...

Local governments are the key institutions that deliver critical environmental services such as solid waste management and sanitation, but, getting the required knowledge to actors in local government or accessing their knowledge which is acquired-inaction remains a problem. The research question is then about better management of knowledge flows (...

In a global knowledge society assessment of university teachers necessarily has to involve global benchmarks, but, universities in developing countries need to be realistic in their selection of benchmarks. In this study we assess the current performance of faculty members in humanities and social science in the public university system in Sri Lank...

New information and communication technologies will arrive on the market at a fast and furious pace. Two technologies of immediate relevance to information and communication infrastructure (ICI) development are broadband access and secure servers. Emerging features of an ICI include distributed computing and associated communications; sophisticatio...