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Remaining institutions will be linked early next year:

IT connects 75 percent Government institutions

Information Technology (IT) will play a major role in the economic development in Sri Lanka as 75 percent of the Government institutions including Ministries, Departments, Provincial Councils, Pradeshiya Sabhas and Divisional Secretaries have been connected to a cohesive network that enables an efficient service to the public, Chief Operating Officer Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Reshan Dewapura said at the launch of the e-Asia 2009, Asia’s most prestigious international exhibition and conference in Colombo yesterday.

The remaining institutions will be linked early next year and this will be in accordance with the “Mahinda Chinthana” policy document. Once this is in place the functions of these institutions will be much faster and would save the time and the money of the public, he said. The e-Asia conference is conducted for the fourth consecutive year followed by conferences in Malaysia, Thailand and India. Over 1,500 delegates both local and international are expected to participate in this event.

The “Lanka Gate” project that provides the facility to access Government services through the internet will be available shortly. “Lanka Gate” is a nationwide middle wave infrastructure.

It is essentially a collection of software which is envisioned to be the gateway for all information and electronic communication in Sri Lanka.

“The conference is a great opportunity to share knowledge and learn. It will be significant to host the conference at a time that Sri Lanka holds the Chairmanship of SAARC and this year being declared as year of English and IT. We have come out of 30 years of war and it is an opportunity to demonstrate that the country has a condusive environment for investment and promote tourism”, he said.

“Sri Lanka has always been a centre for knowledge. We will be able to re-create this image and it will also be a platform to promote and share knowledge. The conference will focus mainly on e-government, e-education, e- health and tele centres.

The country has over 600 tele centers (Nena Sala),” he said.

The country is making great strides in information technology literacy as the rate has increased to 30 percent in 2009 from four percent in 2002. Sri Lanka is poised to become a renowned IT hub as it has secured the 16th place in business processing outsourcing (BPO), he said.

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