About Me

Positions

• Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and formerly Head of ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare.
• Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Creator and Editor of Groundviews, Sri Lanka’s first and award winning citizen journalism site. Technical Advisor to Vikalpa, the sister site of Groundviews.
• Former lecturer at Sri Lanka College of Journalism (SLCJ) in new media.
• Lecturer at the University of Lugano, Switzerland in Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management course

Fellowships

• TED Fellow
• Rotary World Peace Scholar, 2004 – 2005
• Ashoka Foundation News & Knowledge Fellow

Social networking

• LinkedIn Profile

Research on media and ICT4Peace

• Some of my academic writing and original research on media, peacebuilding and technology for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) can be read here.
• My blog on ICT4Peace can be accessed here.

CV and bio

• For full CV and professional experience, click here.