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Sri Lanka to change labour law to help females work in ICT/BPO firms

Shop and Office Employees Act to be amended

October 25, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka's health care digitisation reduces operational costs: government

This availability of data helps the hospital provide treatment easily when the patient returns to the hospital.

October 19, 2023 2 min read

Huawei signs agreement to digitise Sri Lanka schools

Huawei announced its support to help Sri Lanka implement program to nurture software and hardware engineers

October 18, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka water board to go digital with Japan support

NWSDB will be supported to transform its current paper document system into digital form to speed up its operations

October 17, 2023 2 min read
Sri Lanka's Cargills Bank says it countered cyber attack

Acted swiftly to fortify systems, isolate the affected components, and engage cybersecurity experts

Biased algorithms increase harassment of women: UN representative in Sri Lanka

“At the current rate, it would take 134 years to achieve full gender equality,” Marc André Franche said.

Sri Lanka to set up new SOE to manage Lotus tower

Sri Lanka will set up a new state enterprise to operate a tower build for the telecom regulator, the state information o...

September 4, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lankan e-commerce reforms to improve sales for small businesses

Sri Lankan e-commerce reforms underway in are aimed at encouraging more transactions and helping companies, especially s...

September 3, 2019 2 min read

Australia's Different Technologies to double head count in Sri Lanka

Different Technologies Pty Ltd, an Australia based technology company in the property management services business said ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 1, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom ties up with Virtusa to ramp up digital services

Sri Lanka Telecom Plc, the island's only fixed line operator said it had tied up with Virtusa, a technology firm to boos...

August 26, 2019 1 min read

Huawei launches first product with own operating system

Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which has been caught in the crossfires of the Washington-Beijing trade war, on Saturday u...

August 11, 2019 1 min read

Social media block, data rivalry cuts Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata June quarter profit

June quarter net profit at Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata fell 29 percent to almost two billion rupees from a year ago as sal...

August 8, 2019 2 min read

High quality ICT graduates severely short in Sri Lanka, soft-skills gap: survey

Sri Lanka's growing information communication technology is generating a demand for higher skilled workers at degree lev...

August 8, 2019 4 min read

Sri Lanka ICT workforce male dominant, females increasing

Female workers in Sri Lanka's information communication technology sector has increased from 29 percent in 2013 to 34 pe...

August 8, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka ICT workforce to grow 16.0-pct in 2019: survey

Workers in Sri Lanka's information communications technology (ICT) sector is expected to grow 16.9 percent in 2019 to 14...

August 7, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka indicts forensic chief over rugby murder cover up

Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday charged a former chief forensic officer with destroying evidence in the notorious mu...

August 7, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Interblocks bought by Japan's Hitachi-Omron

Interblocks Ltd, a Sri Lanka-based fintech firm, which develops online payment and automated teller technology is to be ...

August 2, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's PickMe acquires YAMU to expand food delivery

PickMe, a Sri Lankan homegrown ride-hailing app which recently ventured into food delivery, said that it has acquired Ya...

August 1, 2019 2 min read

Edotco Malaysia to deploy 1000 lamp pole towers in Sri Lanka

Edotco Lanka, a telecom tower affiliate of Malaysia's Axiata group is investing in a 'smart pole' network which will pro...

July 17, 2019 1 min read

Amazon Web Services to help train 50,000 Sri Lankans in AI, cloud computing

ECONOMYNEXT – AWS Educate, a unit of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will help train 50,0000 Sri Lankan students in cl...

July 8, 2019 1 min read

Red tape, regulations stumbling blocks for Sri Lanka startups

Bureaucratic red tape and regulatory barriers are hampering Sri Lankan startups, according to a survey carried out by th...

July 6, 2019 3 min read

Johannesburg Stock Exchange upgraded with LSEG technology

South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange has been upgrade with London Stock Exchange group platforms to trade equity, ...

June 14, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s eChannelling AI-based ‘Chatbot’ for doctor appointments

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s eChannelling in collaboration with France’s Autochatic has introduced an Artifici...

June 13, 2019 1 min read

Telegram hit by cyber-attack, CEO points to HK protests, China

Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that appeared to originate from China, the company's ...

June 13, 2019 3 min read

Fall army moth repellent LED researched in Sri Lanka by Japan's Tosslec

Kyoto, Japan based Tosslec Company Ltd is developing an agricultural light at its unit in Sri Lanka to repel the adult o...

June 13, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Telecom in deal with work.lk freelance site

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Telecom has tied up with work.lk in a deal that gives the freelance work platform access to the ...

May 27, 2019 2 min read