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Chanuka Wattegama

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Director, Organizational Development

Chanuka Wattegama

Chanuka is in charge of creating and maintaining a virtual environment and supporting knowledge networks. Earlier, he was the lead researcher on a LIRNEasia project to Benchmark National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of the Asia-Pacific Region.

Before taking this position he worked as Programme Specialist ICT4D at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) out-posted to Colombo Regional Center’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Initiative. His focus was to use Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) for poverty reduction and achievement of the MDGs. In this capacity he has worked on various projects on different areas covering poverty reduction, Telecom Regulation, Gender and ICTs, Disaster Management and e-Government.

Chanuka has over fourteen years experience at specialist and management level in for Development. As a researcher, he has co-authored the Sri Lankan chapters for the books Cyber Communities of Asia (AMIC, Singapore), Media in Asia (Sage Publishers, New Delhi), Internet in Asia (AMIC, Singapore) and Digital Review of Asia Pacific (APDIP, Orbicom and IDRC). He was also the lead researcher for Sri Lanka in a nine-country study on ICT for Human Development in Asia, by UNDP. He is a regular writer and commentator on ICT issues in the Sri Lankan media. He was the founder consultant editor of ‘Pariganaka’, the largest selling ICT magazine in Sri Lanka with a circulation of more than 40,000 copies. He has won the Science Writer of the Year Award, presented annually by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, twice.

Employment History

  • Program Specialist ICT4D, United Nations Development Programme, Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
  • Consultant, ICT Agency, Sri Lanka
  • Team Leader, Support and Outsourcing Department, Enterprise Technology (Pvt) Ltd
  • Senior Business Consultant and Project Manager, Asiasoft Ltd.
  • Computer Systems Engineer, Central Bank of Sri Lanka
  • Computer Systems Engineer, Softlogic Ltd

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    LIRNEasia » Colloquium: ‘Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of Asia-Pacific Region’ Says:
    July 15th, 2005 at 7:10 pm

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    LIRNEasia researcher at International Workshop on Building an Information Society: Road to Tunis, Dhaka at LIRNEasia Says:
    October 19th, 2005 at 3:22 pm

    [...] LIRNEasia researcher Chanuka Wattegama will be making a keynote address at an Internet Governance and Telecom Regulation session at the International Workshop on Building an Information Society: Road to Tunis that will take place on October 23-25 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Some of the material in his talk will be based on some of the findings of LIRNEasia’s current research. [...]