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Q At Dialog, what are the Nenasa initiative; Nenasa TV, For this reason, we endeavored
Nenasa Smart School, Nenasa
to make education services
the steps you have
taken to facilitate App, and the toll-free Nenasa accessible via any mainstream
“Digital Education” 1916 distance learning helpline. platform, be it mobile phones
(Zoom, Teams, Nenasa App,
We extended free access to
in Sri Lanka? its education bouquet Nenasa etc.), computers (Nenasa.lk and
Sinhala, Nenasa Tamil, and Guru e-Thakshalawa.lk), or television
Despite the learning loss that TV channels through Dialog (NenasaTV, GuruTV, etc.).
ensued in the pandemic, Dialog Television and ViU App. Dialog Furthermore, in our efforts to
remains committed in its resolve also endeavored to provide upgrade and expand the coverage
to ensure that no child is left 100,000 schoolchildren in need of our network, we added 515
behind. While the pandemic with Data Scholarships under new towers to the network during
has magnified the disparities in the ‘NanaDiri Data Scholarship’ the pandemic period, surpassing
education and underscored the programme to facilitate their 4000 mobile 4G sites, the highest
importance of inclusive education, online learning from home. ever tower count recorded in Sri
Dialog remains resolute in Furthermore, the company Lanka.
continuing to bridge this gap extended free access without any
through its overarching efforts in data charges to e-Thaksalawa,
providing schoolchildren across the National Learning Content
the country with equitable access Management System (LCMS)/
to education to achieve their Learning Management System We believe in universally
aspirations. (LMS), and all official e-Learning available digital education
platforms of State Universities systems and, therefore,
under the purview of the wanted to see some form of
Making Digital Education University Grants Commission. Digital Education available
Universally Available for children across the
country. To achieve this
We believe in universally Making Digital Education objective, Dialog powers
available digital education Accessible a range of educational
systems and, therefore, wanted platforms under the
to see some form of Digital Not everyone has access to Nenasa initiative; Nenasa
Education available for children the same technology, and we TV, Nenasa Smart School,
across the country. To achieve this understand the diverse needs Nenasa App, and the toll-
objective, Dialog powers a range among students who represent free Nenasa 1916 distance
of educational platforms under various socioeconomic strata. learning helpline.

10 September 2021