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28/05/2026
ශ්රී ලංකාව, තම කෘත්රිම බුද්ධි (AI) අභිලාෂයන් ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇති උනන්දුව වේගවත් කරන විට, මෙම සංවාදයේ කේන්ද්රය වශයෙන් වැදගත් ප්රශ්නයක් මතුවෙයි. එනම්, මෙම පද්ධති ක්රියාත්මක වන්නේ කුමන දත්ත මතද සහ එම දත්ත පාලනය කරන්නේ කෙසේද යන්නයි.
Lankadeepa - ලංකාදීප හි ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද ලිපියක, ලර්න්ඒෂියා පර්යේෂණ සාමාජිකා (Research Fellow) අශ්විනි නටේසන් විසින් AI සංවර්ධනයේ පදනම ලෙස ශක්තිමත් දත්ත පාලනයක වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කරයි. සංකීර්ණ ඇල්ගොරිතම සහ AI යෙදුම් වෙත අවධානය යොමු කිරීමට පෙර, ශ්රී ලංකාව මුලින්ම දත්ත රැස් කිරීම, හුවමාරු කිරීම, ව්යුහගත කිරීම සහ ආරක්ෂා කිරීම සඳහා සුසංයෝගී හා විශ්වාසදායක දත්ත පාලන පදනමක් ගොඩනැගීම කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කළ යුතු බව ඇය අවධාරණය කරයි.
මේ සඳහා නව ප්රතිපත්ති රාමු නිර්මාණය කිරීමට වඩා, පවතින දත්ත පාලන ප්රතිපත්ති සහ ක්රියා පටිපාටි සමාලෝචනය කර ශක්තිමත් කිරීම වැදගත් බවද ඇය පෙන්වා දෙයි. දත්ත පාලනය සඳහා සුසංයෝගී ජාතික ප්රවේශයක් මගින් AI සංවර්ධනයට සහාය වීම පමණක් නොව, මහජන විශ්වාසයද ශක්තිමත් කළ හැකි බව ඇය අවධාරණය කරයි.
සම්පුර්ණ ලිපිය කියවන්න: https://tinyurl.com/3zba9c3h
27/05/2026
In an op-ed published in The Jakarta Post, Ryan Eka P. Sakti and Ibrahim K. Rohman, PhD (country researchers for the Indonesia component of LIRNEasia’s D4D project), draw from the policy dialogue on “Indonesia’s Strategy for Safeguarding Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers to the United States Without Compromising Sovereignty or Data Protection” held on 28 October 2025. They note that the emerging Indonesia–US digital trade framework may further increase cross-border data flows, raising a key question: when data moves freely across borders, who truly captures its value?
Read the full article on The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/03/25/data-flows-out-value-flows-away-indonesias-digital-trade-paradox.html
Learn more about the event: https://lirneasia.net/2025/11/indonesia-report-launch-and-policy-dialogue-on-data-governance/
Social insurance for gig workers in Bangladesh
Behind every tap is a gig worker at your fingertips, ready to provide a ride or deliver everyday essentials. However, a gig worker’s protection often begins and ends within the app, leaving them completely vulnerable to risks the moment they go offline. This research by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) examines global lessons on legal recognition for gig workers, protection systems across platforms, and shared financing to explore pathways for expanding social security coverage for gig workers in Bangladesh.
This project is one of seven research projects guided by LIRNEasia under the second grant cycle of the FutureWORKS Asia initiative, part of the FutureWORKS Collective. It is a global effort supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC / CRDI) that aims to build inclusive work futures across the Global South.
18/05/2026
After three years of collaborative research and engagement, the Resisting Information Disorders in the Global South project has culminated in the publication of ‘Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South: Structural Drivers, Governance, Media Literacy, and Fact-Checking’.
Led by the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA - Africa) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC / CRDI), the report brings together evidence from Africa, the MENA region, Asia, and Latin America to examine the structural drivers of information disorder and their regulatory strategies. The publication includes contributions from LIRNEasia, InternetLab, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Research ICT Africa, and ARIJ.
LIRNEasia contributed Chapter 4 of the publication, ‘Empowering Children Against Misinformation: A Review of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Interventions in Sri Lanka’, authored by Isuru Samaratunga, Research Manager at LIRNEasia, and Helani Galpaya, CEO of LIRNEasia.
The chapter explores how Media and Information Literacy (MIL) programmes can strengthen children’s ability to recognise and resist misinformation. It uses a MIL initiative by Sarvodaya-Fusion as a case study, focusing on how it equipped children with the skills to navigate the digital environment safely, ethically, and responsibly. The year-long data collection followed children across three districts in Sri Lanka, tracking not only what they learned from the programme, but also what they retained and applied months later.
Full report is available on the LIRNEasia website: https://lirneasia.net/2026/05/empowering-children-against-misinformation-a-review-of-mil-interventions-in-sri-lanka/
Learn more about the research: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B9swhzMHD/
𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵’𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿
Rising global temperatures are not just an environmental issue, they are also a workplace crisis. Extreme heat events pose an urgent threat to the health, well-being, and incomes of vulnerable low-income populations. This research by Good Business Lab (GBL) examines how daily heat stress affects workers’ health and its implications for attendance, wages, and job losses among garment factory workers in India and Bangladesh.
This project is one of seven research projects guided by LIRNEasia under the second grant cycle of the FutureWORKS Asia initiative, part of the FutureWORKS Collective. It is a global effort supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC / CRDI) that aims to build inclusive work futures across the Global South. Stay tuned to learn more about the other grantee projects.
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