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2024-04-16

BESTWEB.LK 2024

EDB is proud to sponsor BestWeb.LK, Sri Lanka's premier web design competition, organized by the LK Domain Registry for the 14^th time. We're excited to participate as a service partner this year.

2023-06-16

Meet Sri Lankan ICT Exporters at ICT Spring 2023 Luxembourg

The EDB is in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Brussels and Sri Lanka Embassy in Berlin will organize the 10 company delegation to Brussels, Luxembourg and Frankfurt along with the two day trade exhibition at Luxembourg from 29^th- 30^th June, 2023.

2023-05-19

Meet Sri Lankan Tech Exporters at Retail Technology 2023

Sri Lanka Export Development Board in collaboration with the Sri Lanka mission in Sweden, is organizing Sri Lanka Country Pavilion and promotional programme at RETAIL TECHNOLOGY 2023 for the ICT/BPM sector in Nordic Market from 29^th May to 2^ndJune, 2023.

2022-12-16

Meet Sri Lankan Tech Exporters at Japan IT week Intex Osaka

Sri Lanka Export Development Board in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Japan is organizing Sri Lanka pavilion at Japan IT Week at Intex, Osaka from 18^th to 20^th January 2023 to promote Sri Lanka ICT/BPM sector. Eight leading ICT export companies will participate this trade event, and they will present their software products and services at the Sri Lanka Pavilion. They will be exhibiting at the Software & Development Expo Area of Hall no 4 & 5 at Intex.

2020-12-30

Importance of eCommerce in the Time of COVID - 19

eCommerce is generally defined as the buying and selling process of products and services over the internet in a virtual market space. The growing phenomena have been making day to day matters much easier for a lot of people around the world for the past decade and have opened multiple revenues and business opportunities to many businesses.

2020-04-24

Sri Lanka - The Island of Ingenuity

From its modest beginnings nearly four decades back, Sri Lankan Knowledge Services Industry has found its niche in the global market as one of the reliable and innovative digital solutions providers for small to large scale organisations and businesses around the world.

2020-02-17

The Trade & Export Landscape of Sri Lanka 2019 -2020

A combination of local and global terrorism, political turmoil and natural disaster saw the local, as well as the global economy, slowing down compared to the year 2018. Sri Lanka registered a GDP growth of 2.8% during the last year against 3.3% recorded in 2018, while the global GDP also grew at a subdued rate of 2.5%, mainly due to Chinese and the USA trade tension and low growth recorded in the EU and Japan.

2019-08-11

EDB organized a Tech Pavilion for INFOTEL – 2019

The Export Development Board organized a Tech Pavilion for the 4th consecutive year at the INFOTEL exhibition with the intention of providing an opportunity for ICT companies & startups to promote their services/technologies and to meet both local and foreign clients. The companies/startups who exhibited at the exhibition commended on EDB efforts and said that they were able to gain exposure in the ICT/BPM industry and that experience can be leveraged to develop their business models.

2019-05-02 | http://www.ft.lk/it-telecom-tech/Cisco-revamps-its-hardware-for-new-Wi-Fi-technology/50-677278

Cisco revamps its hardware for new Wi-Fi technology

Cisco Systems Inc said it is rolling out hardware for the next generation of Wi-Fi standards, giving a core part of its $28.2 billion infrastructure business a refresh and in the process aiming to garner more software revenue.

2019-01-16

Top 5 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2019

Today, with cybercriminals operating like a penetration tester in the way they scope out the network probing for vulnerabilities and weak entry points, those responsible for IT security will once again need to adjust their strategy and defences. The Sophos 2019 Threat Report detailed how criminals are now “staking out” victims, moving laterally throughout the network, manipulating internal controls to achieve their objectives stealthily.

2018-12-05

Implementation of ‘IT Initiative’: Training program in fundamentals of data science

Another successful implementation of the National Budget 2018 though ‘IT Initiative’, marked with the inauguration of the Training Program in Fundamentals of Data Science was held on 29 October, at the Senate Hall of University of Colombo.

2018-08-06

Sri Lanka’s ICT and BPM Services Industry: Vision 2022

Come 2022, earn US $5 billion in annual revenue; create a total of 200,000 direct jobs; help launch 1000 ICT/ BPM startups. By any standard, to borrow Jim Collins’s phrase, it’s a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) in a national context, but, in the opinion of industry veterans, it’s quite within our reach. Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) that came up with this bold vision in 2016 too believes strongly in the country’s ability to realize it.