South Asia Women in Media - Sri Lanka

The Sri Lanka chapter of South Asia Women in Media

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K W S K Ekanayake works at the Registrar General's Department. She
shares that the cybersecurity training provided by SAWM-SL’s
'Digital Equity SL' initiative will prove invaluable after participating in a workshop on responsible AI and
media literacy in Puttalam #CFLI #ethicalAI

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Women have less access to technology and less learning opportunities. They are hardly supported to gain knowledge and skills.

SAWM SL's latest initiative, #DigitalEquitySL was designed to fill that vaccum. Fathima Sanofar from Mannar speaks:

#SAWMSL #EthicalAI #CFLI

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පුහුණු වැඩමුළු මාලාවේ සිව්වැනි වැඩමුළුව අද (අඟහරුවාදා) දෙමළ මාධ්‍යයෙන් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතය.

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ஊடகவியலாளருக்கான செயற்கை
நுண்ணறிவு பயிற்சிப்பட்டறை இன்று

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දකුණු ආසියානු කාන්තා මාධ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ (ශ්‍රී ලංකා) සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් මාධ්‍ය සංසදය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරන මාධ්‍යවේදීන්, සිවිල් සමාජ ක්‍රියාකාරීන් සහ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදකයන් අතර කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය (AI) පිළිබඳ දැනුවත්භාවය සහ එය භාවිත කිරීමේ හැකියාව වර්ධනය කිරීමේ අරමුණින් පැවැත්වෙන

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A group photo of the participants. 28 journalists, civil society representatives and government administrators participated from Kandy and across the country. #lka #srilanka

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South Asian Women in Media – Sri Lanka held its third workshop under the #CFLI supported project "Digital Equity SL – Responsible AI empowering women, media and civil society" in Kandy on October 27, in partnership with the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association #lka

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South Asian Women in Media - Sri Lanka held its Annual General Meeting
for 2026/2027 on Saturday, 24 October at Tangerine Beach Hotel in
Kalutara, marking a year of growth and expansion for SAWM-SL, hosting community events, capacity-building workshops and more. #lka

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Moments from the Jaffna AI literacy workshop on 20 October at Northgate hotel. Stay tuned for more workshops across Colombo, Kandy and Puttalam in the coming weeks. Thanks to @JaffnaPressClub and for the support from #CFLI #lka

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South Asian Women in Media Sri Lanka joins journalists at the Jaffna Press Club to commemorate journalist Mayilvaganam Nimalarajan, who was murdered 26 years ago inside a High Security Zone.
Justice remains elusive.
@JaffnaPressClub

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South Asian Women in Media #SriLanka @sawmsrilanka joins journalists at the Jaffna Press Club @JaffnaPressClub to commemorate journalist Mayilvaganam Nimalarajan, who was murdered 26 years ago inside a High Security Zone. Justice remains elusive. 📷:@yarltheepan

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The second in a series of AI literacy workshops for journalists, civil society workers and government administrators, organised by SAWM-SL in collaboration with the Jaffna Press Club and supported by #CFLI got underway in Jaffna on 20 October 2026 #lka

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AI literacy workshops for northern journalists kicks off in Jaffna #lka

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Martin was speaking at the launch of a series of AI literacy workshops organised by the South Asian Women in Media - Sri Lanka chapter in Colombo. View more from her speech in the video #cfli #lka

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"Artificial Intelligence offers new opportunities for research, reporting, translation, fact-checking and storytelling. But these technologies also present new risks," said High Commissioner for Canada in Sri Lanka, Isabelle Martin

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Were you at the launch of the Digital Equity AI workshop series in Colombo? Here's some snippets from the event on 13 October, which aimed to strengthen AI literacy among women, media and civil society in #lka #SriLanka

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More from the launch of South Asian Women in Media - Sri Lanka's
training series 'Digital Equity SL - Responsible AI empowering women,
media and civil society' on 13 October.

4 other training
programmes will be conducted in Jaffna, Kandy, Puttalam and Colombo over coming months

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The training series is being delivered by Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, an authority on digital safety, disinformation, and social media and will be held in all three languages in Colombo, Jaffna, Kandy and Puttalam.

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Moments from a groundbreaking AI training for journalists, civil society representatives and government administrators by South Asian Women in Media - Sri Lanka, held at Mandarina Hotel on 13 October 2026 and supported by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #lka

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High Commissioner for Canada in Sri
Lanka Isabelle Martin addressing the gathering said, “I encourage all participants here today to be part of the effort, and to help ensure that technology strengthens, rather than undermines, equality, rights, and freedom of expression.”