Focus on digital content and applications - ICTA CEO

Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI

The digital content and applications become very important in the digital world and no one will be left behind in this revolution, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka CEO Reshan Dewapura said.

He was speaking at the inauguration of the South Asian Mobile Conference 2011 at the Galadari Hotel Colombo yesterday.

Dewapura said at a time when governments, industries, societies, communities and countries are rapidly advancing towards a digital world, it is necessary to address the ‘need for’ and the ‘sustainability’ of these applications to maximize the effect and impact, not only for computers, but more increasingly for mobile devices as well.

He said this year’s conference and events leading upto it and its follow-up are all contributions towards realizing the objectives of innovative National Development Programmes such as e-Sri Lanka.

“The South Asian Mobile Conference and its associated mBillionth Jury is an example of an enormous success emanating from a simple but innovative concept,” Dewapura said.

The mBillionth has received almost 50 percent more mobile content applications for the Jury process this year which is ample proof of both the substantial and continuous development in our ICT journey as well as the phenomenal impact of the mobile sphere on the ICT sector. The conference held for the second consecutive year in partnership with Etisalat Lanka attracted a number of foreign experts in the field of ICT.

Among the participants were ICTA Chairman Prof. P. W. Epasinghe, Digital Empowerment Foundation Founder and Director Osama Manzar, Impact Mobile Canada President and CEO and keynote speaker Gary Schwartz, Mobilium International CEO and Founder and keynote speaker Ralph Simon, Dialog Axiata PLC Sri Lanka Group Chief Executive Officer Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Telecommunication and IT Ministry Secretary Nimal Athukorala and Etisalat Lanka CEO Dumindra Ratnayake.