A JICA award to the best student of the Master’s Degree in ICT of UCSC has been presented every year at the convocation of University of Colombo to commemorate JICA’s contribution to the UCSC under the Project for Human Resource Development in Information Technology through Capacity building of the University Of Colombo School Of Computing.
“Winning the JICA award is a dream come true” says Hemamali Perera, the winner of JICA award for the Best student in 2015, in the Masters in Information Technology degree at the University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC).
In recognition of her outstanding performance Chief Representative of JICA Sri Lanka, Kiyoshi Amada ,presented a memento at the ceremony at the UCSC recently. The Director of the UCSC, Prof. Hewagamage and senior academic staff were also present.
The project was successfully accomplished during years 2002 -2005, improving the quality and quantity of IT related human resources of the institute. After the completion of the project in year 2005, JICA and UCSC agreed to corporate with each other in organizing a five-year series of training programs in the field of e-learning technology to disseminate the knowledge accumulated under the mentioned project. By 2010, UCSC had trained 169 local participants and 80 foreign participants from Asian, Pacific, Middle–Eastern and African Countries in the field of e-learning technologies.