Shilpa Sayura Foundation

In 2006 Niranjan Meegammana, a veteran Technologist formed Kaputa Team, an online youth teach community to help develop Sinhala Technology and tools for internet. Kaputa.com was embraced by large number of rural users who were not able to use internet due to langauge gap. Kaputa.com became Sri Lanka's first local language on-line community providing content, e commerce services and community interactions. Kaputa.com inspired large number of youth to enter web industry.

Kaputa Team participating in Sinhala Unicode Committee, developed Unicode fonts and tools for content management opening a huge potential of internet for learning, communication and business. Founding Sinhala Unicode Group, an on-line group diverse technologists collaborated in developing and promoting of free Sinhala Technology and tools for community, resulted gov.lk the first Sinhala, Tamil and English portal.

Niranjan Meegammana participating e Society Focus Group of e Sri Lanka project, emphasised the need of local content. The voice was heard and government and funded USD 50,000 for development of local langauge e learning system for National curriculum addressing rural drop-out problem. Shilpa Sayura journey of rural education development began in 2006.
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Shilpa Sayura reached over 60,000 youth and made a positive impact enabling access to National education through telecentres, and became a global example by winning i4D 2007 Award at e-India, GKP 2008 in Malaysia and Stockholm challenge and World Youth Services Award in 2008. Winning Lien I 3 social innovation challenge was a remarkable milestone in 2009 lead to creation of Shilpa Sayura Foundation in 2009 to continue the innovation and impact as a social enterprise

Shilpa Sayura innovationteam includes professionals, teachers, parents and youth with diverse exceptional skills in Technology, Education, Design, Media, Community Development and Public Relations. Niranjan Meegammana, Yamuna Rathnayake, Vishva Kumara, Poornima Meegammana, Samanmalee Swarnalatha, Jayampathi Dinamithra, Udara Anuruddha, Saman Sisira Kumara, Dilip Kumara and Roshan Chathurnga are key members.

We are engaged in education development, youth media, democracy, women empowerment, environment conservation, mobile applications and economic development of youth supported by Adobe Foundation, UNHABITAT, UNICEF, UNDEF,Microsoft, Autodesk and ISOC.
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Shilpa Sayura has become a youth lead organisation supported by professionals and community of partners. Our collaborative vision and insights influence us to take action on emerging problems and explore potential solutions achieve our mission.

Social innovation is our passion. We seek ways to transform social innovation to industrial innovation that can be replicated by other social enterprises. It's our wish to share concepts, technology and content in global scape.

Over the years we have learned that digital development increase inclusion, save time, money and energy. Digital development help enable inclusion, education and empowerment. Our vision is "Innovation for 21st Century" to support Sustainable Development of Education, Culture, Gender Equality, Digital Economy and Environment.

Shilpa Sayura continue it's journey seeking new ways to develop 21st century youth leaders, who shall be the drivers of positive change to make our society a better place.
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