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3 out of 10 children who are internet users in urban and semi urban areas are being victimized by online perpetrators
Lanka Pay's Technovation awards will recognize banking and non-banking firms that had come up with innovative solutions.
Winners will receive help to grow their business in the UK.
Digital economy had grown from 4.73 to 5 percent.
Agreement with Board of Investment of Sri Lanka for US$1.78mn to expand Orion Colombo and Orion Nest
The user base across all social networks has surged from 60 million to 74 million.
This allows the use of electronic documents and reports when obtaining government services
Implications of surveillance practices are pertinent, as Sri Lanka is in the process of implementing SL-UID program
Involving the DMC, TRC and service providers including SLT Mobitel, Hutch, Dialog and Airtel.
We need to move to artificial intelligence, but before that we need to be digitalised
President asks for collaborative efforts between private sector and government to foster IT human capital
Shop and Office Employees Act to be amended
This availability of data helps the hospital provide treatment easily when the patient returns to the hospital.
Huawei announced its support to help Sri Lanka implement program to nurture software and hardware engineers
NWSDB will be supported to transform its current paper document system into digital form to speed up its operations
President has appointed the board of directors for the Sri Lanka Personal Data Protection Authority
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| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
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To attract potential investors for IT companies in Sri Lanka and achieve a target of 3 billion US dollars in IT exports
Sri Lanka has seen growth in digital economy since Covid-19, but not enough - experts
Acuity is looking to double Sri Lanka office to 1,000
Part V of the act deals with the establishment of a Data Protection Authority, first proposed in November 2022.
“As we go into digitalisation, we must also ensure cybersecurity."
While risks certainly exist, said de Silva, appropriate regulation is the way to mitigate them.
“National security is not a slogan. National security takes specific forms."
This is despite nearly all mobile operators in Sri Lanka being private for decades.
Females holding only 34 percent of the jobs in the sector
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