Background
The recent statistics show there is a large unemployment specially among youth and recent graduates in the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka. The regions are underdeveloped and are underperforming in many human development factors and seem not have plans to educate and train the next generation workforce to meet the future challenges and create long lasting, sustainable industries with growth potentials and employment opportunities. Moreover, the regions have limited with natural resources and are experiencing deteriorating climate and environmental conditions. These factors are putting enormous strain on sectors like farming and fishing, and those who are dependent on them. Nevertheless, the regions still have a decent education system and have two universities, which have a strong desire to help the local businesses and develop new enterprises.
TamilSeed aims to develop an innovation and entrepreneurship program targeting primarily the universities and high school students. The program aims to stimulate and motivate the students to define their projects with the help of the faculty and teachers and produce need based innovation. The results will become part of an innovation radar program with the objective to develop them further into products and/or services that can scale. In this way we aim to create innovative companies and employment opportunities that should also kick start and boost the service sector and should attract employment opportunities for a large workforce.
Our Goals
TamilSeed works to promote novel ideas and solutions with the ultimate goal to create sustainable knowledge-based industries for employment opportunities and growth among the Tamil communities.
We
- Stimulate, motivate and raise awareness among the Tamil communities about innovative thinking
- Serve as a knowledge and guidance center for innovation and innovation
- Conduct activities that disseminate knowledge that creates interest among the large society for investment in our knowledge-based industry development projects
- Facilitate a forum for exchange of experience and competence among stakeholders related to knowledge-based industry development
- Act as a link between the authorities and educational institutions related to knowledge-based industry development
- Serve as a link between investors and innovators related to knowledge-based industry development
Our Values
- Innovative thinking and creativity
- Innovation and value creation
- Transparency and inclusion
- Volunteer spirit and social development
What we offer?
- Provide an innovation short program (targeting Tamil youths) to stimulate innovative thinking and learning process to identify problem that need solution with scaling potential
- Identify and guide Tamil innovators through our innovation process with the objective to develop their ideas that can scale into innovative companies
- Support with funds as seed money to develop the idea into innovative products or services that can scale.
Founders and Board Members
- Ilangko Balasingham
Head of Section for Medical ICT R&D at Oslo University Hospital, & Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway - Sutharshan Nadarajah
Head of R&D at Element Logic and former VP Engineering at Kudelski Group, Norway - Steven Pushparajah
Senior Naval Engineer at ULSTEIN Group and Founder of SPK-Design, Norway - Packiyanathan Chelliah
Computer and network Technology Management Engineer at Lørenskog council, Norway