World Congress and Exhibition in November:
Java to bolster economy
Java World Congress:
Charumini DE SILVA
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CEO Nigel
Dye |
Sri Lanka has a great opportunity to develop in the Information
Communications Technology (ICT) industry. The Government and the Board
of Investment (BoI) is taking many initiatives to promote and develop
the skills of the youth of the country, Metanaia Pertners CEO Nigel Dye
said at the launch of the Java World Congress and Exhibition 2010
yesterday.
The Java World Congress and Exhibition 2010 is schedule to be held on
November 19 to 21 at SLECC and BMICH.
The population in Asia accounts to over two billion which is 48
percent of the world’s population. Sri Lanka therefore has the advantage
of locating in the Asian region and having the benefit of advanced
technology, he said.
Europe and America are prospective markets for Sri Lanka as these
countries evolve very regularly. If Sri Lanka could provide a better
service and show the world to service knowledge based economy, the
country will again be highlighted on the world map, Dye said.
Dye said the country should focus more on large project management
skills. “Evolution is all about innovation. The key element of
innovation is cultural and social diversification. Sri Lanka should make
use of the cultural diversity in their production system,” he said.
Java World Congress and Exhibition Secretary General Dr Ishantha
Siribaddana said Sri Lanka can make use of the Java technology to
develop a knowledge based economy. Java is one of the fastest and it is
recommended as one of the best technologies in the world.
It is important to improve the professional education and skill
development of our youth. Although the young entrepreneurs have academic
education most of them lack the professional and skill developments.
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Economic Development Minister Basil
Rajapaksa launching the official website of the Java World
Congress and Exhibition 2010. Java World Congress and
Exhibition 2010 Chairman Dilanthe Withanage and Java World
Congress and Exhibition Secretary General Dr Ishantha
Siribaddana look on. Picture by Rukmal Gamage |
Dr Siribaddana said by enhancing the youth capacity and empowering
them with Java technology will create avenues to attract more foreign
remittances without depending on the foreign remittances from the Middle
East expatriates.
The country should ease regulation on Internet payments. Many young
entrepreneurs seek ICT job opportunities overseas as regulations are
stiff. The brain-drain should be stopped and we should make use of it
for our economy to prosper, he said.
Java World Congress and Exhibition 2010 Chairman Dilanthe Withanage
said chronic poverty is the worst crime of the humanity.
“To overcome this situation, we need an innovative and creative
structural change in all our systems. Although we are in an ICT era we
still use old mechanisms to solve our problems,” he said.
During the industrial revolution the main difficulty was to gather
capital in our productions, but today it has changed into ICT.
Building and strengthening the social capital is vital in developing
the country’s economy. Therefore, we should promote using open source
Java technology to empower the youth with many opportunities, he said.
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