This software won the prestigious international award “I4D
best open educational software” at the I4D conference held in Delhi, India in August
2007. developed by e-Fusion for the Shilpa Sayura project enables students to,
manage their subject knowledge, engage in self-learning, research, and
publishing in the Sinhala medium. Shilpa Sayura can be used on a single
workstation or network.

            This software was developed under the e-Society
development fund. At the moment, it is only used for e-Society project work.

            Shilpa Sayura is still being developed and tested.

            The software that is being tested has been posted on www.shilpasayura.org for research
purposes.

            Although this is a commercial product, it is being given
free of charge to rural Nenasalas, school project associates and non-profit civic
educational service providers in rural areas who can match the specifications
for the software, according to the project to minimize the educational divide.

            The main objective of this project is to create an
e-study system and to implement it in 20 Nenasalas in rural Southern Province
villages, thereby strengthening the learning activities of village students
with a low amount of educational resources and familiarizing them with the
concept of self-learning in order to increase their competitiveness and
minimize the educational divide in the rural community.Shilpa Sayura Educational
Information Repository

An educational information system has been developed and implemented in
20 Nenasalas in rural Southern Province villages using this software. To
accomplish this, a donation of Rs. 5 million has been made by ICTA’s e-Society
development fund in order to launch a pilot project.

The Shilpa Sayura project covers about half the syllabus in the subjects
Sinhala Language, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Art, Dancing, Music
and Environmental Studies from Year 6 to Year 11. It uses the SLS 1134 Unicode
standard.

While the project goals for the first year have been attained, assistance
is required for widespread implementation.

Information will be made available free of charge to Shilpa Sayura
project associates.

An award was presented in recognition of the service rendered by the
Shilpa Sayura project at the prestigious i4d awards ceremony held in 2007.A. Product
Characteristics:1.     Self-learning
ability.
2.     The ability
to manage the content.
3.     Group
learning.
4.     The ability
to use the software on a single workstation as well as on a network.
B.     Platform:
Windows
C.     Minimum
requirements/configuration: Windows XP
D.    Establishments
where the product is currently being used/developed/tested:

It is being
used in the testing phase in 20 Nenasalas in Monaragala, Matara, Hambantota and
Ratnapura districts.Written by Niranjan
Meegammana, e-Fusion, www.sinharaja.com