The two awards bagged by Sri Lanka come respectively under the ‘eGovernment’ category and the ‘Public Sector Organisation of the Year’ category.
The ‘eGovernment’ award was for the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), or Visa Online of the Sri Lankan Department of Immigration and Emigration. The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) played a major role in this award-winning project – ‘Visa Online’.
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The document management system will be made available online. In addition, a dedicated call centre will also be established to answer queries and feedbacks from the Department’s stakeholders.
According to an official statement, the Department will be using a new Oracle-powered online system to upgrade the department’s automation system with an estimated cost of Rs 140 million (USD 1 million) and is now in its final stages of development.
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He was speaking at the National Conference on the Role of ICT in Reconciliation at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) in Colombo. Dewapura said, “We are now able to reach all parts of the country. We can use ICT to accelerate this process and take the true benefit of development to them.”
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In an interview with the Sunday Observer, Kim stressed on areas where telecommunication can be used, in mitigating disaster risks, economic empowerment of the rural community and in creating new job opportunities for the country.
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The initiative stemmed from the need to address challenges posed by the lack of access to essential information needed to make well-informed decisions during critical situations.
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