Norway mission boosts ICT

The Sri Lanka-Norway Business Match Making Programme (BMMP) of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) organized an ICT delegation to Oslo, Norway in collaboration with Advance Business partner AS Norway recently.

Financial assistance to the BMMP is provided by Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).

A seminar on business matchmaking opportunities with Norway was held in August where over 50 Sri Lankan ICT company representatives took part and the e-Match portal was introduced for the first time to Sri Lanka.

e-Match (www.ematch.eu), is a shared platform for business and innovation matchmaking that allows companies to increase its visibility, search for partners and maximize its opportunities with potential partners.

It was instrumental in selecting matching companies to take part in the delegation. Under the BMMP, a delegation to Norway has been an annual event but a National ICT delegation was organized for the first time since 2004. Eleven major players from the Sri Lankan IT industry took part in this mission.