Poornima Meegammana

Article on Sunday Times about my journey with Design, Technology and Social Innovation. Full article: https://lnkd.in/gGnhUbQM

Today was a part of Education in the time of the COVID-19 Panel for UNESCO International Day of the Girl 2021 celebration alongside Ms Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO, Ms Houraye Mamadou Anne, Head of the West African Office of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Ms Mary Nasieku, High school, Kenya. […]

The Scratch Coding program we initiated in 2020 has produced some amazing coding Kids. This weekend 9 teams including 2 all-girls teams from our program have been chosen by hSenid Mobile to take part in TADHack Sri Lanka 2021 to compete in first ever TadHack Teens competition. We trained then in scratch, micro bit, web […]

Shilpa Sayura Foundations Nextgen Girls In Technology project won the UNESCO launched the call for nominations for the 2020 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education. This Award honours outstanding and innovative contributions in the world to advance women’s education. This is the first time Sri Lanka has won a UNESCO award for an education […]

 Nextgen Girls in technology becomes WSIS Prize 2020 – ITU Champion!  The Award Recognises activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development. It is given by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) #GirlsInTechnogy  #NextGen #internetsociety #isoc #isoclk #ideamart

It was a grate honer be a speaker at WSIS High-level Dialogue: 15 Years of the Implementation of WSIS, among some distinguished personalities of the world. I expressed my ideas on how we need to strengthen girls ICT education while ensuring Inclusion, equality, localisation,  empowerment, innovation and most importantly creating global partnerships to achieve 2030 agenda More information: https://lnkd.in/gNWjrHt

Voices of the Sea documentary short directed by me has been selected for “Community Films and Exploring Creativity Summit” by Adobe and TakingITGlobal. The film tackles the new emergence of Colombo port city and its damning effects on the fishery community in Modara.