Groundviews

About

Groundviews is Sri Lanka’s first and only award winning citizens journalism website and features an unparalleled range of ideas, opinions and analyses on humanitarian issues, media freedom, human rights, peace, democratic governance and constitutional reform.

Funding and Support

Groundviews was set up under the Voices of Reconciliation Project, conducted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) from 2005 – 2006 and funded by CIDA and  AusAID.Since February 2007, Groundviews has not received any funding from local or international sources.

Reach and Readership

Groundviews got over 144,280 page views in 2007 and over 229,494 in 2008. Up to 27th May 2009 alone the site received 235,000 pageviews, and now gets over 2,000 pageviews a day. Groundviews is currently referenced on 57 other blogs globally and has a Technorati rank of 91,856 out of the over 70 million blogs Technorati indexes and ranks. This is the only media website in Sri Lanka to be directly indexed on Google News and ranked Number 1 on Google by keyword.