Sri Lanka topped the region by winning six awards out of 57 projects nominated by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) at the Manthan Award South Asia 2010.

SHIKSHAKA: A Framework for Bridging the Language Gap in the Category - E-Culture & Heritage was among the Finalist of the annual Manthan Awards South Asia 2010. UCSC received a certificate of recognition for its Shikshaka product at the awards summit.

The Manthan Award  organised by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and centred in New Delhi, India, aims to bring to the fore projects  in e-content and promote best practices and creativity in e-content. The two-day session of the seventh edition of the Manthan Award for presentation of projects culminated  with Awards Gala held on December 17 and 18th at Parkland Exotica Hotel Delhi. 

Shikshaka is a computer-based, open source, customizable tool developed to facilitate and ease the process of teaching and learning a new language. This computer assisted language teaching framework built by University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka provides for and enables the learning Tamil in Sinhala and Sinhala in English. The framework consists of three sections, i.e. Dialogue, Grammar and Exercises. In the Dialogue section the teacher can add conversational examples and make them more attractive by using images and audio content. The exercises relevant to the particular chapter can be included in the Exercise section. Moreover, the system is designed in a manner that it can be easily adapted and localized for other languages.