{"id":5889,"date":"2014-01-15T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=5889"},"modified":"2015-05-05T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:32:06","slug":"poor-usage-of-internet-by-sri-lanka-rural-women","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/january-2014\/poor-usage-of-internet-by-sri-lanka-rural-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Usage Of Internet By Sri Lanka Rural Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Fjanuary-2014%2Fpoor-usage-of-internet-by-sri-lanka-rural-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=5889&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">WEDNESDAY, 15 JANUARY 2014 00:00<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/InternetSriLanka1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim<br \/>\nPix Ikhwan<br \/>\nVideo Muslim Yahya &amp; Ruhaizad Abdul Majid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 8 Jan 2014 \u2013 Rural women in Sri Lanka chose not to use the internet or learn computer skills because of low relevance and benefit to them in their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A University of Colombo lecturer and PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSK) at The National University of Malaysia (ÿÈÕ´óÈüapp), G.T.I Maduhubhashini said internet usage in her native Sri Lanka is at a very low 13.1% for the entire island with the rural women accounting for only 1.1% of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Making her presentation on \u201cIssues in Internet Adoption Among Rural Women in Sri Lanka\u201d at the Tun Fatimah Hashim Discourse Series 2014, she said even urban women have no motivation to get online as often as women in other developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This could be due to the lack of infrastructure, affordability and computer skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said even university campuses and public places have very low internet accessibility causing staff and students alike to become less attracted to get online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sri Lanka government had introduced ICT Centres in rural villages but have gotten no positive feedback from the villagers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are many ICT Centres being built by the government, but no one comes to use it. They feel that the internet cannot help them in their daily lives, so why bother learning?\u201d Maduhubhashini said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the discussions that followed, Director of the Tun Fatimah Hashim Women\u2019s Leadership Centre, Assoc Prof Dr Madeline Berma felt the Sri Lankan government should re-think its ICT policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYes, there is lack of infrastructure and internet accessibility; but that has been dealt with by building ICT Centres. What is the point then if you do not cater to the needs of the people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Madeline said the government should create ICT programmes around the ICT centres that is relevant to their daily activities which will benefit the rural community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cJust building the centres and turning on the WIFI on won\u2019t make the people suddenly interested in the internet. They need to learn how to operate the computer, adapt to the main language of the internet \u2013 which is English \u2013 and most importantly, it has to be tied in to their daily lives or else they will never be interested in getting online,\u201d Dr Madeline said.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/InternetSriLanka2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 15 JANUARY 2014 00:00 By Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim Pix Ikhwan Video Muslim Yahya &amp; Ruhaizad Abdul Majid BANGI,<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/january-2014\/poor-usage-of-internet-by-sri-lanka-rural-women\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5890,"parent":1091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5889","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5889\/revisions\/5892"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}