Looking ahead with great hope for National development: ICTA Private Sector Forum

19-Oct-2009

The ICTA Private Sector Forum expressed great hopes for the future National ICT development. This was brought into focus at the ICTA Private Sector Forum meeting held at Colombo last week.

True to its theme ‘ICTA Programs - Progress and Opportunities Ahead’ and its tagline ‘Towards a knowledge economy’ the forum reviewed the past year’s activities and consider the future involvement of the ICTA Private Sector Forum in national ICT development.

ICTA Chairman Professor P. W. Epasinghe welcomed the participants. The review of the past year’s activities and plans for the future of the ICTA Private Sector Forum was presented by ICTA Re-Engineering Government Program Head Dinuka Perera and the presentation on recent four ICTA-initiated ICT surveys - ICT Industry Survey, IT Work Force Survey, BPO Work Force Survey and ICT Usage in Business and the presentation on “the ICTA Private Sector Program- Progress and Impact” was given by ICTA ICT Investment and Private Sector Development Program Head Fayaz Hudah.

The audience was also given an overview of the IT-BPO career fairs by the presentation given by Indaka Raigama of the Regional Career Fair Committee. An important highlight of the meeting was the presentation by ICTA COO Reshan Dewapura which underlined what is in store for the people of Asia in e-Asia 2009 and gave a detailed update on the work done in preparation for e-Asia 2009 on the theme “e-Asia 2009 - Opportunities to engage”.

Representing the Ministry of Education which had done a great service for popularising the IT-BPO program among schoolchildren, teachers and parents Director of ICT Division, Ministry of Education, Neil Gunadasa recapitulated the IT-BPO work with relevance to school children done from the NICS conference at BMICH Colombo in 2007 and thanked ICTA and the private sector for their contribution for the success in the endeavour.