"It will provide a firm foundation for e-commerce transactions and give formal recognition to e-mail communications," says Jayantha Fernando, legal advisor of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka.
"It also gives recognition to electronic signatures, and provides a structure to be established for rules to be laid down in the future."
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hSenid renowned for their HRM Solution provides the Human Resource Management component. E-wis a leading systems integrator provides the Hardware and Network.
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Moreover, Re-engineering Government will strive to ensure that government services are delivered efficiently at the right time, to the right place, and to the citizens' very doorstep, be it the home or the freely accessible community information centres (VGKs). It will provide citizen services in the most efficient and productive manner, by re-engineering and empowering business processes of the government.
The objective of the capacity building programme will be to equip the public sector with the skills and competencies needed to manage and administer forthcoming e-government projects, including IT infrastructure (Lanka Government Network, or LGN) and services such as e-Foreign Employment, e-Pensions and e-Divisional Secretariat.
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The Centre located at the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA) showcases the true spirit of public private partnerships collating the synergies of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), SLIDA, Oracle Corporation Singapore, PC House and Millennium Information Technologies on behalf of SUN Microsystems and Cisco. The Centre will have a dedicated manager and team, with demonstration and development of e-governance solutions and proof-of-concepts carried out by technical experts of the partners.