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When Worlds Collide #114: Welcome to UPF – United Planet of Football!

Posted on 11 July 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 11 July 2014 Last time the FIFA World Cup was approaching its climax in mid July 2010, I did my bit for interstellar cooperation (or conquest). If … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Affairs, ICT, Media, Social Media, Telecommunications, Television | Tagged 1962 World Cup in Chile, alien planning to invade the Earth, Arthur C Clarke, Brazil, couch potatoes, Estádio Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Facebook, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), FIFA World Cup, geostationary communications satellites, How the World Was One, instant telecommunications, lanetary scale stadium, live broadcasts, mobile phones, Narrowband Internet, Olympics, Planet Football, social media, Twitter, Uruguay 1930, World Cup 2014 | Leave a comment

When Worlds Collide #113: Outpacing Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean: Are we ready?

Posted on 4 July 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 4 July 2014 Timely warnings about on-coming disasters can literally save lives – provided the word reaches those at risk. And they know what to do, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, ICT, Indian Ocean, Media, Public information, Social Media, Sri Lanka, Telecommunications, Tsunami | Tagged cell broadcasting, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), Dialog, Disaster early warnings, Dr Rohan Samarajiva, Dr Stuart Weinstein, Facebook, global public goods, Good communications, Google Public Alerts, Indian Ocean tsunami 2004, IOC-UNESCO, LIRNEasia, LIRNEasia Disaster Risk Reduction Lecture, mobile phones, ndian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC), Real-time Tsunami Reporting Systems (DARTs), Sarvodaya, seismic waves, SMS alerting, The Long Last Mile, Tsunami Warning Systems, tsunami waves, Twitter | Leave a comment

When Worlds Collide #112: Social Media ‘Candles’ for Mainstream Media Blackouts

Posted on 20 June 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 20 June 2014 What is the best way to manage public information in times of national crises – whether disasters, epidemics or conflict? All governments face this … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Current Affairs, Disaster, Disaster Communication, History, Humanitarianism, ICT, Journalism, Media, Media freedom, Peace & Conflict, Public information, Public perceptions, Religion, Social Media, Sri Lanka, Telecommunications | Tagged @AmanthaP, @dinidu, @Dinoukc, @InduNan, @Nimilamalee, @tingilye, Aluthgama, Amantha Perera, ‘knowledge hub’ of Asia, ‘Stand Against Racism', Beruwala, Black July of 1983, Bradman Weerakoon, conflict, Dharga Town, disasters, epidemics, Facebook, First Post, Global Village, H R Premaratne, ICTs, information and communication technologies (ICTs), Information control, IT literacy, Jaffna, memes, Nagadeepa temple, Rajan Hoole, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, social media, Tsunami, Twitter, Voltaire | Leave a comment

When Worlds Collide #101: Safely Riding the Social Media Dragon

Posted on 30 March 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 29 March 2014 “We have to start asking not what is wrong with Facebook but what is wrong with our society?” Those words, by Dr Harini Amarasuriya, … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Education, ICT, Internet governance, Public perceptions, Social Media, Sri Lanka, Telecommunications, Youth | Tagged cyber safety, cyber security, demonisation, Facebook, Gayan Wijewickrama, Groundviews.org, hacking, Instant messaging, passwords, privacy, romanticisation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, SL-CERT, SMS, SnapChat, social media, social media literacy, Sri Lanka’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, two-step verification, Twtter, Unicef Sri Lanka, Youth for Children (Y4C) forum | 1 Comment

When Worlds Collide #71: Bridging the ‘Other Digital Divide’

Posted on 23 June 2013 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 23 June 2013 “We’ll never allow satellite TV into our country! The minds of our youth must be shielded from those decadent western TV shows!” … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Culture, ICT, Media, Social Media, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Television | Tagged #AskLW, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, David Page, Exploit the inevitable!, Facebook, globalisation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Lalith Weeratunga, Mahatma Gandhi, national security, Other Digital Divide, public morals, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Twitter, UN-ESCAP, William Crawley | 1 Comment

When Worlds Collide #70: Sailing the Stormy Seas of Social Media

Posted on 9 June 2013 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 9 June 2013 “Don’t we need permission to blog?” asked a bright and eager grassroots development worker during one of my new media training sessions … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender based violence, ICT, Social Media, Sri Lanka, Women's Rights | Tagged anonymity online, Anuradha Vittachi, blogging, Clay Shirky, clean government, Communicating for social change, conspiracy theorists, Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives, Facebook, human rights, intolerance online, Jehan R, Lankan blogosphere, One World.net, post war Sri Lanka, pseudonymity online, racial harmony, religious bigots, rule of law, social media, social media for advocacy, Twitter, YouTube | 3 Comments

When Worlds Collide #68: Imagine That! Analyse This!

Posted on 25 May 2013 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 26 May 2013 Imagine and innovate to honour Sir Arthur C Clarke! That was the central message in an op-ed I wrote in March 2009 … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Education, Innovation, Media, Science Fiction | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, ACCCHI, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarke Centre for Human Imagination, Arthur C Clarke Foundation, artificial intelligence, Brave New World, compassion, dystopia, education systems, End of the world, ethics, Facebook, Fahrenheit 451, genetic engineering, George Orwell, Group Imagination, How the World Was One, Imagination, nanotechnology, optimism, Ray Bradbury, robotics, science populariser, social media, South Asian Conspiracy Games, space promoter, Studying imagination, The Matrix, Twitter, Two Cultures, underwater explorer, University of California San Diego, writer | 1 Comment

When Worlds Collide #37: Raiders of the Open Internet?

Posted on 14 October 2012 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 14 October 2012 The battle to keep the Internet open and free is being fought on several fronts, and for a whole range of reasons – … Continue reading →

Posted in Communicating Development, Education, ICT, Innovation, Internet governance | Tagged balkanized, Broadband Internet, Dr Rohan Samarajiva, ETNO, European Telecommunications Network Operators Association, Facebook, Google, ICT, International Telecommunications Regulations, International Telecommunications Union, Internet Society, ITR, ITU, Khan Academy, LIRNEasia, Salman Khan, Vint Cerf, WCIT-12, World Conference on International Telecommunications, WSIS, YouTube | 2 Comments

When Worlds Collide #14: Freezing Moments and Defying Time’s Tyranny

Posted on 5 May 2012 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 6 May 2012 Growing up in a very different Sri Lanka during the 1970s, I was image starved. We had no television, no Internet, and going … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Indian Ocean, Photography, Sri Lanka, Tsunami, Uncategorized | Tagged All Hands Volunteers, Buddhini Ekanayake, Chulie de Silva, Digital Natives, Facebook, Flickr, Hikkaduwa, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Kodak Box Camera, kodak Moment, Picasa, Profiles of the Future, Shahidul Alam, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Telwatte, tsunami of 11 March 2011, Wijayananda Ekanayake | 1 Comment

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