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Item Use of Internet of things (IoT) for the people with disabilities: a Sri Lankan case study(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wedasinghe, N.; Wickramarachchi, R.The main reason for Disability among young cause is until the year 2009 Sri Lanka had 30 years of humanitarian operations in the country. Most of them were permanently disabled while working in the National security forces in the country. The objective of this study is to overcome the difficulties faced by blind or visually impaired community in Sri Lanka using Internet of things (IOT) concept. The study is basically consisting with two phases. In the first phase of the study examined the current technology adaption among the differently abled community in Sri Lanka and problems faced by them. The second phase examines how the modern new technologies such as Internet of things (IoT) successfully solving the issues in globally and develop a model to overcome the Sri Lankan disability digital divide. First phase of these study two set of samples were interviewed to identify the current disability digital divide in the country. Initially 314 participants were interviewed and in the second set of sample including with 180 disabled participants. Sample selected from different communities, different disabled categories and different geographical locations. Findings indicated that basic level ICT technologies used by the differently abled community are low. Findings indicated that Network layer, Application layer and Presentation layer considerations are need to be importance to overcome the disability digital divide as a holistic model to overcome the disability digital divide in the country.Item Digital Divide: Inequality Access of Sri Lankan Society to Digital Media(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wimalasir, B.H.D.The ‘Digital Divide’ exists between all countries according to Pippa Noris and Manual Castells. The Digital Divide creates a gap among peoples. The present world has become a global village. Therefore, developing countries tend to face many problems linked to digital media. In this study, my purpose is to identify the issues that arise due to the divide in social empowerment. Development can be defined as physical development and spiritual development. Not all countries in the world have reached their development goals. Developing countries have to compete with developed countries in their efforts to reach the global village. The digital divide is one of the main problems they face in this effort. By 2015, of the world’s 7.2 billion people, only 3.366 billion people are connected through the internet, according to internet world statistics. The overall computer literacy in Sri Lanka stood at 25.1% in 2014, and has shown an increase of 5% points from 2009 to 2014 according to the Department of Census and Statistics. It is not a sufficient value to reach the standard of the global village. The focus of the study are the factors that contribute to the digital divide that exists in Sri Lanka and the challenges of reaching the standards of the global village. My hypothesis is that while the digital divide empowers people, and that its lack in developing countries contributes to a disempowerment of its people. Therefore, The Digital Divide should be overcome in societies by removing limitations to access the digital media in developing countries. The main method of data collection in this survey is questionnaires; data was obtained from university students. My main conclusion in this study is that developing countries face many issues related to the digital divide in digital media, such as the lack of material access, the lack of skill access, the lack of usage access, and the lack of mental access. The inequality in digital media affects to the disempowerment of people in developing countries.