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| Thursday, 22 April 2004 |
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ICTA and NCCSL take e-business to rural areas The Information and Computer Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) through the ICTA's pilot project program National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) has set up Information Centres in several towns throughout the country. The Information Centres have e-mail and connectivity to the NCCSL Centre in Colombo, through which queries raised by SME members could be facilitated on an individual one-on-one basis. These centres also have Internet facilities and SME members can browse the Internet to find information, buyers and markets for their products. Shashank Ojha, a member of World Bank's, Informatics Advisory Service for the South Asian Region, together with Dinesh Amarasekera, Senior Project Manager of ICTA, visited the newly established Information Centre at Matara recently. The NCCSL demonstrated the solution and discussed how it is currently being utilised and benefiting the regional SME membership of NCCSL. Amarasekera said "The SME sector is the engine of rural economic growth. "We believe that this portal is an innovative enabler that helps showcase SME's wares to a global audience providing an electronic means of correspondence to extend and expand opportunities". They also discussed the plans for the regional chamber in promoting and expanding its membership, during the visit. |
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