Sanjana Hattotawa
A Sri Lankan human rights activist and founder of Groundviews, a citizen-journalism initiative
Sanjana is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and Head of ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare, both located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has an Advanced Masters in Conflict Resolution and International Relations at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and an honours degree in English from the University of Delhi, India. With significant research and hands-on experience in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of peace and media support programmes and multi-stakeholder Track II processes for conflict transformation, Sanjana is an internationally recognised thought-leader in the use of ICT and new media for peacebuilding.
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Sanjana Hattotawa on the web
- Website: Sanjana Hattotuwa
- Company: ICT for peace foundation
- TED: Sanjana Hattotuwa
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Voices of Reconciliation
The Voices of Reconciliation project aims to increase the capacity of civil society organisations to effectively engage in the peace process and strengthen professional media that supports Sri Lanka’s transition to democracy and reconciliation.
Fair, balanced and independent media is essential to good governance, effective public administration and the capacity of Sri Lankans to achieve a negotiated peace settlement and undertake a successful post-tsunami reconstruction program.
A professional media with a responsibility to the public interest, independent of government or partisan influence and interference, is a vital part of the series of checks and balances central to democracy.
The practice of journalism in Sri Lanka faces many challenges.
These challenges are of concern to Sri Lankan citizens but journalists, working together in professional solidarity, by building a culture of independent journalism, have a pivotal role to lead the campaign for media reform.
Vikalpa
About
Vikalpa is institutionally anchored to the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA). It follows the spirit of the award-winning Groundviews and publishes content in the vernacular exploring key issues broadly related to human rights, democracy, governance and peace.
Our Vision
To demonstrate by example the impact of high quality citizen journalism in Sri Lanka to further peace, democracy and human rights.
What is Vikalpa?
In providing a space for concerned citizens to air their aspirations for conflict transformation, democracy, good governance and peace in Sri Lanka, the idea of this website is to promote and strengthen voices that are not featured in mainstream media.
What can I expect to see here?
Articles from a personal perspective that are pithy, provocative and essentially humanizes and critiques conflict & peace through alternative cultural, social, economic and political perspectives.
To whom is this website geared towards?
Content herein is geared for policy makers in Colombo, including political parties, influential academics, media persons, researchers and peace activists. It is also geared towards the diaspora, who can access the website to get a better idea of vital issues and actual ground conditions in Sri Lanka.
Who is funding Vikalpa?
Vikalpahas since its establishment been supported by a number of donors including UNESCO and International Media Support.
Groundviews
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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.
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