Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Moratuwa, Katubedda, Sri Lanka
Dr.(Mrs) N.C. Wickramaarachchi has done Ph.D. (University of Colombo, SL), B.Sc. (SJP), M.Sc. T & CP (Moratuwa), FITP (SL), AIV (SL), MRIS (UK), Life member â Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science, Life Member â Geo-Informatics Society. Nishani Champika Wickramaarachchi currently works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Estate Management & Valuation, University of Sri Jayewardhanepura. Nishani does research in Real Estate Economics, Real Estate Development, property valuation, and spatial planning.
Review Article
Public Health Planning and Citizen Engagement: Exploring the Need and the Sustainability of an Open Source Platform for Dengue Prevention in Sri Lanka
Author(s): N Wickramaarachchi*, PKS Mahanama, R Ratnayake and NS Bandara
The rise of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has offered the world a new and efficient mechanism to increase active citizen engagement. Growth in open source technology has widened the space for engaging a vast number of citizens limitless of geographical and hierarchical boundaries via crowdsourcing real-time data. Even though there is a boom in using ICTs in connecting and sharing knowledge and information among different stakeholders, still, there is a considerable gap in using open source technology in combating public health issues around the world. As a country with a high internet usage rate, Sri Lanka still shows underutilization of such technologies in monitoring and preventing non-communicable diseases. Dengue is a serious health threat in Sri Lanka which shows the need for active surveillance in prevention. The main objective of the paper is to seek the potential .. View more»