{"id":1557,"date":"2025-09-30T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:42:40","slug":"google-grants-sri-lankan-students-free-access-to-gemini-advanced-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Google Grants Sri Lankan Students Free Access to Gemini Advanced Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Colombo, Sept. 29<\/em> \u2013 In a landmark announcement, Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, Eranga Weeraratne, revealed today that Google will provide Sri Lankan students with free access to its <strong>Gemini advanced features<\/strong> and a range of additional benefits under its global student offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the <em>\u201cFuture of AI Begins Today\u201d<\/em> conference this morning, the Deputy Minister shared the news, highlighting the successful outcome of months of collaboration between the Ministry of Digital Economy and Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI am excited to announce the news that I received just this morning. Google has agreed to provide their student offer with Gemini advanced features and other benefits for Sri Lankan students free of cost. This is a game changer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Deputy Minister Weeraratne, the initiative will enable every student across the country to access <strong>world-class AI tools, cloud platforms, and learning resources<\/strong> at no cost. He emphasised that the move marks a major step forward in Sri Lanka\u2019s efforts to embrace digital transformation and ensure equal opportunities for students nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement comes at a crucial time, as Sri Lanka accelerates its digital economy strategy and prioritizes education in preparing the next generation for an AI-driven future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, Sept. 29 \u2013 In a landmark announcement, Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, Eranga Weeraratne, revealed today that Google will provide Sri Lankan students with free access to its Gemini advanced features and a range of additional benefits under its global student offer. Speaking at the \u201cFuture of AI Begins Today\u201d conference this morning, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.medicare.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}