Cambio opens IT Research Lab at Colombo University
The Board Members of the Cambio Healthcare Systems AB lead by the
Chairman of the board Göran Persson visited University of Colombo School
of Computing (UCSC) to ceremonially declare open the Cambio Research Lab
of the UCSC recently.
Board members an invitees at the launch |
Cambio Healthcare Systems is one of the largest companies in Sweden
in the field of healthcare administration systems and a leading player
within the European market, with about 95,000 users in general and
university hospitals, primary care clinics and specialist units. Today
Cambio has over 200 IT professionals in their state of the art
development center in Colombo.
Responding to the UCSC's need of a facility to provide an IT lab for
its final year undergraduates, Cambio Healthcare Systems AB set up a
fully equipped IT Lab, called the "Cambio Research Lab" and formally
handed over 40 state of the art PC's to the university..
Those present at the occasion included the Chairman of the Cambio
Healthcare Systems board Mr Göran Persson who is a former Prime Minister
of Sweden (1996 - 2006),and other board members ,CEO Tomas
Mora-Morrison, CFO Niklas Berglund and Chief of Software Engineering
Göran Skold. Also present was Dr. Sunil Jayantha Nawarathna, Secretary
Ministry of Higher Education and Prof. Kshinika Hirimburegama,
Chairperson, University Grant Commission.
Director of Cambio Sri Lanka Sushena Ranatunga and Head of Cambio Sri
Lanka operation Dharshana Jayawardena. After the opening ceremony
students of the UCSC presented two recent award winning research
projects conducted at the university.
Chairman of the Cambio board Göran Persson stated that" Information
Technology is an absolute critical success factor for the development of
any nation. If you as a country does not embrace information technology
and keep pace with its rapid innovations, then you will be out as a
player in the world economy of today".
As such he expressed his confidence that the "Cambio Research Lab"
will also in some measure help the students of UCSC to reach the
international standards required of the industry, which in turn will
contribute to the growth of the IT industry in the country by providing
both the quantity and quality required in IT human resource in Sri
Lanka.
The CEO of Cambio Healthcare Systems AB, Tomas Mora-Morrison pointed
out that "After evaluating many countries, Cambio selected Sri Lanka as
the place to house our Software Engineering division based on many
factors such as availability of skilled IT staff, low staff turnover and
cost of operations.
Endorsing these thoughts, Secretary Ministry of Higher Education Dr.
Sunil Jayantha Nawarathna said that Sri Lanka had plans on making the
country an IT hub in the future.
"There are many wonderful opportunities emerging in all parts the
world and Sri Lanka has a number of good IT companies that with good
products that can provide services to those markets.
Research labs of this nature are what creates the stepping stone for
our graduates to enhance their abilities to meet with the standards
required to serve international market requirements "
Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake referring to many Swedish funded projects
at the UCSC, thanked Cambio Healthcare Systems for setting up the lab to
further strengthen research and stated that it was a great honor and
privilege to receive a gift of this magnitude that would provide the
final year undergraduates an opportunity to improve their skills and
knowledge enabling to them have successful careers in the IT industry.
Commenting on this initiative, Dharshana Jayawardena, Head of Cambio
Sri Lanka stated "In Cambio, innovation is one of our key values and we
recognize it as a vital need for the growth of the IT industry in our
country.
We therefore hope that this research lab will give the undergraduates
the opportunity to demonstrate a high research potential and that they,
the university and the country will immensely benefit from this
state-of-the-art research environment" |