Mano Sekaram, the current Chairman of SLASSCOM has been praising Sri Lanka’s talent and ability with IT and digitisation. Talking about the industries, Mr Sekaram said “What enabled our rapid growth was a planned strategy based on a competent workforce, quality of service and cost competitiveness, a strategy that was propelled by strong collaborations between the public and private sectors,”. Sri Lanka has been making great strides in IT education which is creating a hub of digital specialists. The high targets set by SLASSCOM for 2022 including increasing revenue to US$5 billion, creating 200,000 direct jobs, powered by 1,000 start-ups is fast being realised.

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