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Technology goes rural by Elmo Leonard The current budget encompasses all the proposals made by the Software Exporters Association (SEA) which would facilitate enhanced exports in the future, SEA's Vice Chairman, Mano Sekaram said last week, at the launch of a logo for Sri Lanka's software industry. Chief Guest on the occasion, Finance Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama was emphatic on SEA's projections of exporting software for $1 billion by 2012 from $75 million exported in 2004. The budget is also conducive for the development of science and technology, he said. Dr. Amunugama said that he wished the ICT industry to be a flagship industry for a new Sri Lanka. "Sri Lanka had over the years spent a tremendous amount of money on public education and also on health and social welfare. The Government was spending a lot on youth, for therein lies the asset of the country," Dr. Amunugama said. "The youth of the nation would turn the human resource they bear into live investment", he futher states. Answering questions, Dr. Amunugama said that the Government was totally committed to bilingual education for its youth. Government was also spending a large amount of money on teaching English as a second language. In that way, the Government wished to afford people in the rural sector an equal chance of obtaining knowledge in science and technology. Chairman ICTA, Professor V. K. Samaranayake said that through the 323 Divisional Secretariats, computers were being issued to all parts of the island. "Then, young people in every village would have access to knowledge and training in computers," he added. |
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