From: End Poverty in South Asia <no-re...@blogs.worldbank.org> ** Using Technology to Create Value
[image: SAR Technology]*Join an Online Discussion with Sri Lankan youth entrepreneurs on Friday, 22nd March at 3-5pm on the **World Bank's Sri Lanka Facebook page * <https://www.facebook.com/WorldBankSriLanka>*and learn from their experiences in the online field.* The Internet is now an indispensible part of our lives for most of us. Whether it be checking email or Facebook or looking up something on Google or Wikipedia, we just can’t live without it (or at least, we feel that way!). However, it’s the way in which the Internet, by converging audio-visual, telecom, and computer networks into what we now call Information and Communications Technology (ICT), <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology>has made it easier for anyone with an idea or a dream to go out there and use these tools to create solutions, services, and products and create value, that makes it so powerful and empowering. Click here https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/node/817 to view full story.
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