News & Knowledge Entrepreneur at Ashoka Foundation
Sri Lanka
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- News & Knowledge Entrepreneur at Ashoka
- Special Advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation
- Head, ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare
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- The University of Queensland
- Delhi University
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Sanjana Hattotuwa’s Summary
Sanjana is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and Head of ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He read English as an undergraduate in Delhi, India and was awarded an Advanced Masters in Conflict Resolution and International Relations from the University of Queensland, Brisbane with a Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement. With significant research and hands-on experience in supporting civil society processes for conflict transformation, Sanjana is an internationally recognised thought-leader in the design and implementation of ICTs and new media for peacebuilding.
Sanjana is a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Through the Foundation, Sanjana helps strengthen the use of ICTs in crisis information management and peacekeeping initiatives anchored to the United Nations. In 2008, Sanjana was the first Sri Lankan to be awarded a News & Knowledge Entrepreneurs Fellowship from the Ashoka Foundation in recognition of his social entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka that leverages citizen journalism and new media for peacebuilding.
As a Fellow of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Sanjana looks at issues related to Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and peacebuilding.
Sanjana is Editor of Groundviews (www.groundviews.org), an award-winning web based citizen journalism initiative in Sri Lanka.
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Sanjana Hattotuwa’s Honors:
Rotary World Peace Scholar
