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How Sri Lanka's Dialog battled floods and landslides to restore communications

Teams from all telecom networks backed by the military worked

December 1, 2025 4 min read

Internet websites down over cloudflare glitch

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November 18, 2025 1 min read

Sri Lanka government’s key online services hit by LGC disruption: ICTA

ICTA says in process to restore the system

October 13, 2025 2 min read

Sri Lanka's EDB and JICA extend program to support ICT/BPM sector

extension will expand benefits to Sri Lankan ICT companies, including continued market intelligence, business coaching,

August 20, 2025 1 min read

Sri Lanka libraries go online with digitalisation

We need to move to artificial intelligence, but before that we need to be digitalised

November 23, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka president asks private sector help to grow IT human capital

President asks for collaborative efforts between private sector and government to foster IT human capital

October 26, 2023 2 min read

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

Nethmi Rajawasam
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 data protection authority directors appointed

President has appointed the board of directors for the Sri Lanka Personal Data Protection Authority

Apsara Rodrigo
October 10, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka IT conference to attract investors for local companies

To attract potential investors for IT companies in Sri Lanka and achieve a target of 3 billion US dollars in IT exports

September 22, 2023 1 min read

All Sri Lanka's state sector transactions to be digitalized by March 31 - official

Sri Lanka has seen growth in digital economy since Covid-19, but not enough - experts

September 6, 2023 1 min read

Acuity Knowledge Partners to double Sri Lanka unit, strengthen university outreach

Acuity is looking to double Sri Lanka office to 1,000

July 28, 2023 3 min read
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Sri Lanka Data Protection Authority comes into operation

Part V of the act deals with the establishment of a Data Protection Authority, first proposed in November 2022.

July 25, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka to introduce long-delayed cybersecurity legislation in 2023: official

“As we go into digitalisation, we must also ensure cybersecurity."

June 20, 2023 3 min read

National security concerns over Sri Lanka Telecom shares sale unfounded: Harsha

While risks certainly exist, said de Silva, appropriate regulation is the way to mitigate them.

Himal Kotelawala
June 10, 2023 4 min read
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Opposing Sri Lanka Telecom share sale on national security grounds baseless: expert

“National security is not a slogan. National security takes specific forms."

Himal Kotelawala
June 9, 2023 4 min read
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Sri Lanka Telecom share sale opposed on 'national security' grounds

This is despite nearly all mobile operators in Sri Lanka being private for decades.

June 9, 2023 2 min read

Low female participation in Sri Lanka's ICT sector calls for action - IPS

Females holding only 34 percent of the jobs in the sector

March 8, 2023 6 min read

Sri Lanka's IQ Global launches digital readiness index

IQ Global website is available online for companies.

March 5, 2023 1 min read

Acuity Knowledge Partners with Sri Lanka office to be bought by Permira

Acuity has a 500 person operation in Sri Lanka

January 28, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata hopes to hold prices despite rising costs

High inflation following a collapse of the currency has reduced real incomes of customers

January 27, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka tops google searches for 'Sex', Djibouti for 'Sexe'

However if a small country has a large number of a particular search interest, then the result can be amplified

December 12, 2022 2 min read
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