Infotel surpasses itself

Ishara Jayawardane

Students at a presentation. Pictures by Rukmal Gamage

A group of boys gather together to view the technology

Students experiencing the technology

Head of Marketing, MAT, Thushara Perera

One of the pioneers of Bubland, Manoj Manatunga

I wonder what the world will be like in 10 years time when a group of people create an entire country over the Internet, test launched just recently and that is exactly what Bubland is: A country created over the net.

“Bubland is a country created on the internet where we have such a lot of features. It is a social country, it is not a social network. There is citizenship in this country and when you become a citizen you become a Bublander. Now we are Sri Lankans, so on in this website you become a Bublander. It functions as a normal country and on this website we need a newspaper so citizens can know what is going on in Bubland”. The newspaper name is "Bub Today" said the pioneers of this new concept, Manoj Manathunga and Migara Karunamuni.

Bubland like any other country will have elections and a president. It operates as a country; as a sovereign nation. There will also be a national anthem.

“Not only will we have a president, we will also have a parliament or a senate for bubland in future as a kind of an e-government . We have been creating some new games to play in bubland. So we are done with the test launching and now we are going to release the entire website soon with a grand launch” they said.

And now let us meet the rest of the innovative people at the fair!

Infotel 2011 did remarkably well with a huge crowd turnout during the four days which commenced from December 2 to 5 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. The technology fair drew the interest of everyone who attended with a display of gadgetry and devices. Daily News visited the fair and chatted to the stall owners.

“Gestetner is a UK based company and it is an organised dealer for Fujitsu laptops as well. So we are dealing here with copiers, colour copiers plus Fujitsu laptops. In Sri lanka we are the number one partner for Fujitsu. These are unique machines made in Japan. These are high performance laptops for gaming and business solutions, normally we cater for corporate sector such as Bank Of Ceylon, Sampath Bank, Central Bank etc. Special thing is we are also the only dealer doing public PCs because solution wise it is very helpful for the businessman because they travel frequently so they need light weight with special features.

So we are introducing a new laptop mainly competitive to Mac, like Apple. It is the only laptop that we have in Sri Lanka with 1.2kg and 14 inch category. It is really thin and we are the number one company for copiers range. We have colour copiers to black and white copiers. We have a good corporate base which is custom based. Fujitsu looks for reliability and quality. They have a policy which is make sure that the highest standards are maintained. Quality wise it is at the optimal level. Fujitsu globally is it number one.” said Kasun Liyanage of the Gestetner stall.

Head of Marketing Thushara Perera and CEO Mathiesha Perera of MAT were two stall owners from MAT who also spoke to the Daily News. They explained that they were heading towards the IT innovation. Their product is an Interactive White Board , an extension of your computer. Whatever you do in your computer, can be done in the White Board as well. If you want to save it or later retrieve it, you can do all of that .

It is an amazing product they have brought down. We are fortunate to have a product like this in Sri Lanka, it helps all industries education and corporate sector.

“These kind of products we need to bring it down to Sri Lanka basically for us to be on par with the rest of the world. With this product we are helping Sri Lanka to be on par with the rest of the world. We are inviting everyone to come and experience this product and to see how we can get Sri Lanka on the same page as the developing. We are glad to introduce products like this to Sri Lanka” said Thushara and Methiesha.

There were also representations from schools with their own stalls with their own innovations. It was one of the best fairs to be held in Colombo with the atmosphere buzzing with curiosity. Most of the halls were packed with onlookers as young schools kids enthusiastically described their technological know how.