Teacher at Zonal Computer Resources Centre, Kurunegala Education Zone, NWP, Sri Lanka - Kurunegala, North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Computer Resources Centre, (Kurunegala Education Zone)Maliyadeva College,KurunegalaThis is one of the Computer Resources Centres (CRCs) created island wide to work as the forerunner of introducing ICT education into the government school system during the 1994 - 1999 period of school modernization. The staff was given local and foreign ICT exposure and encouraged to acquire post graduate qualification in ICT.They were assigned the task of maintaining CRC without the provision of recurring expenditure by government coffers. The idea is from a guideline put forward by the world bank project which provided the initial physical resources for CRCs through a concessionary loan scheme to the government of Sri Lanka.Due to the succes of the process of recruitment alomost all the CRCs are functioning to the date.