‘Infocom, e-literacy will drive growth in backward areas’

Indunil HEWAGE

Suren Amarasekera

The country and the information and communication technology sector (ICT) need to create ample employment opportunities for women to get their fullest contribution to achieve development objectives in the country while assisting them to enhance their living standards, Mobitel CEO Suren Amarasekera said. Speaking at the eighth Annual CTO forum 2010 he said deployment of “infocom” technology and other latest technologies should be done faster to achieve the Government objective to double per capita income in years to come.

Infocom and E-literacy will be the main requirements to drive the growth in areas and sectors that are considered as backward.

The country also needs to team up with more organizations to promote Mlearning to achieve the economic prosperity and competence in the country,” he said.

“It is a timely need to harness the full potential in human resources, natural resources, capital formation, economy integration, project management, research and testing to prosper the country.

Being small players in the telecommunication sector in a small country like Sri Lanka is not an impediment and it will assist to harness the potential in the relevant areas,” Amarasekera said.

He said telecommunication infrastructure facilities provided to Colombo city reaches to about 42 percent and the city’s contribution to the GDP is 45 percent.