India's NKN, Sri Lanka's LEARN connect with high capacity Net

New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) India's National KnowledgeNetwork and Sri Lanka's LEARN which connect to educationalinstitutions between the two countries ...

New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) India's National KnowledgeNetwork and Sri Lanka's LEARN which connect to educationalinstitutions between the two countries have now been linkedwith each other through high capacity internet, the governmentsaid today.

Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is on anofficial visit to Sri Lanka, inaugurated the connectivitybetween the two networks.

"On the first day of his visit, he (Prasad) inauguratedthe gigabit connectivity between the National KnowledgeNetwork of India and LEARN network of Sri Lanka. Thisdedicated high speed internet connectivity will boost thecollaboration among the academic institutions of India and SriLanka," an official statement said.

Sri Lankan Minister for Telecommunications and DigitalInfrastructure Harin Fernando was also present on thisoccasion.

"Both countries signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)for enhancing cooperation between India and Sri Lanka in theIT sector, cyber security and eGovernance. On this occasion,the Minister also inaugurated the use of eOffice softwaredeveloped by National Informatics Center (NIC) by thegovernment of Sri Lanka," the statement said.

NKN aims to connect all universities, researchinstitutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare andagricultural institutions across the country to improve accessto knowledge and meet communication and computational need ofthe institutions.

NKN has already connected over 1,648 institutions undervarious categories throughout the country.

Similarly Lanka Education And Research Network (LEARN)also connects leading educational institution in Sri Lanka.

Prasad later called on Sri Lankan President MaithripalaSirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

He shared the success of UMANG app which was launched byPrime Minister Narendra Modi in the presence of Wickremsinghea few months ago during the inaugural ceremony of GlobalConference on Cyber Space in New Delhi.

Prasad invited experts and officers from Sri Lanka tovisit India to study some of the eGovernance applicationsdeveloped by the National Informatics Centre.

He delivered the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture2018 on the invitation of the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lankawhere he spoke on the Evolution of India's ConstitutionalDemocracy, the statement said. PTI PRSSA.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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