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At a time when ‘innovation’ has become the buzz word among every company, sector and country world over, in order to stay competitive, Sri Lanka ranks amongst the bottom four countries in the Asia-Pacific region in making innovations.

Accordingly, Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Creative Productivity Index (CPI) has ranked Sri Lanka at the 19th position among 22 economies.

Read more: Sri Lanka among bottom four in ADB’s innovation index

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About 250 nominations have been received for e-Swabhimani 2014 – the national award for the best e-content and innovative ICT applications, says the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).

Registering an increase each year from the 130 entries at the first e-Swabhimani in 2009 , the 2014 nominations mark the highest number during the five years, say ICTA sources.

During the next few weeks these nominations will be carefully judged by a jury comprising local and international experts.

Read more: LK: Marked increase of nominations for e-Swabhimani 2014

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Sri Lanka ranks first among South Asian countries in the latest E-Government Development Index conducted by the United Nations.

"Sri Lankan government has made a substantial effort to develop its online portal which now ranks 74th in the world", the UN said. Sri Lanka ranked 115 in 2012.

Read more: Sri Lanka ranks top among South Asia

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Explaining on the growing fingerprint phobia along with the introduction of new electronic-national identity card issuance system (E-NIC), Commissioner General of the Department of Registration of Persons Mr. Sarath Kumara said that, "all other family information including fingerprint will be taken solely to identify individuals and such details will not be exposed to unauthorised parties". Mr. Saratha Kumara expressed these views while speaking at the weekly media briefing held at the MoD Media Centre on Wednesday (03rd September)

Further elaborating he said that, "there is no point of being fearful of fingerprints, because when issuing passports and driving licences fingerprints are normally taken in accordance with the stipulated criteria". "Moreover, fingerprint machines are also widely in use amongst government and private sector organizations and many foreign countries", he also mentioned.

Read more: LK: e-National ID Card is a sign of development

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‘Sri Lanka’s Ease of Doing Business Rank could be further upgraded as the United Nations have notably elevated the country’s e-Government Development Index Rank, Reshan Devapura, CEO, Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka told the media at the Arcade, Colombo, on Thursday.

"The United nations e-Government Development Index (UN eGDI) has advanced Sri Lanka to 74th rank among 193 countries, from its previous 115th rank, within just two years.

Read more: ‘Sri Lanka could rise in UN Ease of Doing Business rankings’

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