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Telecentre Manager : Mr Nandana Madugalle: Nenasala Teldeniya
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Posted by Nandana Madugalle on
February 28, 2013 at 1:37pm
Implemented by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka under the
E-Sri Lanka initiative. Teldeniya was one of the rural and disconnected
villages in Kandy district before the implementation of Nenasala in the area.
Managed by the entrepreneur model, Teldeniya Nenasalas’ success story is a
result of the dedication and hard work of the Nenasala staff members over the
past few years.Nandana Bandara Madugalle, a young individual and the oldest
staff member is also a part of Teldeniya Nenasala success story. Nandana, aged
27 is a resident of Teldeniya village. Nandana is the youngest of a family of
Three children whose father is a government Teacher and mother is a house wife.
Nandana has successfully completed his advanced level studies from the
Dharmaraja Collage Kandy and he has followed an IT diploma from the IDM. And
also he had completed BCS .(British Computer Society)
Nandana joined Teldeniya Nenasala services on 03th November 2007. As a Manager.
By that time, Teldeniya Nenasala possessed limited resources such as only the 3
computers and there were limited number of students who had enrolled to follow
the IT training classes. Therefore by the early stage of his service, Nandana
was assigned with few responsibilities such as to conduct the IT training
classes for the kids and school students. As the Nenasala services expanded,
Nandana’s role as a Nenasala Manager included multiple tasks and
responsibilities. Nandana is a young and energetic individual who actively
participates with Nenasala awareness raising campaigns, Nenasala community
development initiatives, Nenasala IT training programs, etc. Nandana assist all
the Nenasala users who daily visit Nenasala for various purposes such as
communication, information search, IT training. Over the last 5 years of
service, Nandana has improved his out-going personality and he maintains
friendly attitudes towards the community in helping them out with their
requirements. Nandana is a good team player who supports his co-staff in
fulfilling Nenasala daily activities. Because of that he got the post of
Ambassador in Central Province given by the ICTA
Before the implementation of Nenasala, Teldeniya remained as one of the least
connected rural villages of the Central province where Computers and IT was
considered as a luxury. Yet, over the past 5 years of time with Nenasala
services, digital literacy rate of the village has being improved and remains
in a stage of satisfactory. Nandana as the Manager for Teldeniya Nenasala has
immensely contributed and cooperated with Nenasala activities. During the early
stage, Teldeniya Nenasala commenced their activities in village School level.
Teldeniya Nenasala conducted awareness creation workshops in school level with
the support received from the regional education department. Nandana has
conducted awareness creation
session on Nenasala services and importance of ICT in day today life. Nandana
has given a great help to these campaigns and assisted the co-staff to carry
out successful events. With the positive outcomes of the first phase
activities, Teldeniya Nenasala conducted awareness campaigns for all the schools
in the area and as a result, Nenasala could attract a large number of school
students for Nenasala IT training classes. Most of the students are keen on
participating to the IT training classes at Nenasala and they are interested in
using internet and computers for their studies. Nandana was able to deliver
successful and interesting classes as he could retain the enthusiasm among the
students to use ICT. Teldeniya Nenasala gradually expanded their activities as
they could serve not only the school students, but the different sectors of the
community such as agriculture, trade, government employees, youth, etc. Nandana
equally contributed this programme with his full potential as he could better
serve his community with his expertise. Specially, he contributed to co-operate
social responsibility related activities carried out by the Teldeniya Nenasala.
For instance, there was a programme which was focused on benefiting the
children coming with low income families. Nandana volunteered to conduct free
IT training classes for these children. Added to that, a survey research
conducted on these law income groups revealed the fact that main cause for
their poverty is their addiction to drugs and alcohols. Nandana took the
leadership in carrying out a counselling service for the parents of these
families and he conducted parents meetings as he could convince them on their
responsibilities as parents to ensure the future of their children. Added to
that, representing Teldeniya Nenasala, Nandana took part in community
development program’s as a resource person organized by the rural societies in
the area and he assisted the community in various ways. In further supporting
co-operate social responsibility initiatives of the Teldeniya Nenasala, Nandana
initiated a scholarship programme for the children of war heroes in the area.
With this programme, he could benefit 100 students with IT training. This
scholarship programme was well recognized by the community and Nandana could
successfully complete the programme with positive feedback received from the
beneficiaries.
Teldeniya Nenasala has assisted most of the government and community based
organizations in the area to computerize their data and operations. In such
initiatives, Nandana has efficiently assisted in carrying out Nenasala
activities. Also, Teldeniya Nenasala is a recognized IT institute in the area
and Nandana has played a leading role in achieving Nenasala objectives and
delivering the dividends of ICT to every village and every citizen.
Teldeniya
Nenasala has established a social welfare foundation called 'Jana Udana Lanka
Foundation' for the benefits of students who followed the IT training programs
of the Nenasala and for the frequent Nenasala users. Nandana takes the
leadership in managing the activities of the foundation and he conducts the
monthly meetings for the members and discuss their difficulties and assist
solving out their problems. he organizes workshops for the youth in personality
development, positive thinking, etc. and he was successful in obtaining the
support from the resource persons in the area. Today, Teldeniya Nenasala is a
reputed IT resource centre in the area. Teldeniya Nenasala provide IT
assistance and consultation to all the community based organizations and
government organizations in the area. Nandana participates by coordinating the
respective organizations with Nenasala.. he has helped building a strong
partner network for the Nenasala. With Nandana's ability in building strong
co-relationships with the organizations and institutions in the area, Teldeniya
Nenasala could easily get sponsorships for the activities that they are
planning to launch.
With Nandana's guidance and influence, most of the community has become
frequent users of the Nenasala. Resource mobilization is a significant to a
Nenasala as there are limited resources available and Nenasala has a great
responsibility to serve all the community members. Nandana has managerial
skills in resource mobilization as he is capable of efficient and effective use
of resources available. he has helped with her expertise in finalizing a
resource mobilization plan for the Nenasala and he has always fulfilled his
duties to the Nenasala while ensuring the effective use of Nenasala resources.
Nandana Manages all the financial accounts and documents of the Nenasala
activities and he generates monthly reports on financial transactions which is
really helpful in understanding a financial stability of the Nenasala and
planning out future Nenasala activities. Teldeniya Nenasala has achieved its
financial sustainability and could obtained assets worth over one million due
to its successful resource mobilization Nandana has immensely contributed to
the sustainability and the success of the Nenasala by playing multiple roles.
In every year, Teldeniya Nenasala prepares a activity planner and organize
various projects and activities. Nandana takes the leadership in documentations
and reports generation of all activities and share the responsibilities among
the Nenasala staff. He possesses outgoing personality and he is capable of
maintaining friendly relationships with his co-staff, Nenasala partners and
Nenasala users. Further he has the capacity to work under pressure while
fulfilling multiple roles.
One of the innovations that Nandana initiated is that he implemented an IT
training programme for the journalist in Teldeniya area and he conducted
training sessions for them. He assisted the newspaper reporters in the area to
document their article in computers and communicate with their news agents via
emails and skype. This program directed all the journalists and news reporters
to use Nenasala as their communication centre. It built a cordial relationship
between Nenasala and the journalists and as a result Nenasala has no difficulty
in publicizing the Nenasala events via the public media with free of charge.
Nenasala Team Wishing you all the best & Good Luck ... !
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