25000 SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TO RECEIVE IT TRAINING

In a bid to boost ICT literacy and to make public service more people-friendly in Sri Lanka, 25,000 employees in different government sectors in the country will be provided with IT training.
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya (pictured), Minister of Telecommunication and IT said the training is part of the five-year national ICT plan which main thrust is to make Sri Lanka the knowledge hub and wonder of Asia.
Increasing ICT literacy in the country will help Sri Lankans have productive lifestyle, the minister said in a Consultative Workshop for Formulating the Five-Year National ICT Plan early this year.
The draft plan enriched by the inputs provided by top representatives of Public and Private sector ICT-related institutions including ICT Agency of Sri Lanka Chairman Prof. P.W. Epasinghe will be submitted to the cabinet for approval.
ICTA Chief Executive Officer Reshan Dewapura explained that the national ICT Development Plan is formulated as one of the main strategies for making Sri Lanka the ‘wonder of Asia’, as per the ultimate vision of “Mahinda Chintana – Vision for the future”.
The government of Sri Lanka is seeking to raise ICT literacy of its citizenry to 75 per cent by 2016, the Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga has said at the FutureGov Forum Sri Lanka held last year.
ICT literacy in the island republic has grown from five per cent in 2004 to 30 per cent in 2010, as a result of a series of initiatives spearheaded by a Presidential taskforce to bring ICT to ordinary Sri Lankans, particularly in rural areas, where 77 per cent of the population lives.

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