CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT & SMART SOCIETY

Sameera JayawardenaProgram ManagerICT Agency of Sri Lanka

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21.2mn (2016)Total population

31.2% (2016)Women Digital

literacy

SRI LANKA

6.26mn –

29%(2017)Internet Users

Source| World Bank-2016, We are Social 2017 Jan

21.2mn (2017)Active Mobile Users

26.36mn (2017)Mobile Subscriptions

>4.9 mn

(2017)Active Social Media Users

VISION: A DIGITALLY INCLUSIVE SRI LANKA

DREAM

TRANSFORMING SRI LANKA TOWARDS

A CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY THROUGH

DIGITALLY EMPOWERED

CITIZENS.

“Digitizing the economy”

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SMARTSOCIETY

SMART Citizen

SMART Education

SMART Government

SMART Infrastructure

Facilitate by Digital technology – Birth to Death

SMART Health

SMART

CULTURESMART Industry

SMART Cities – Megapolis

Western Region Megapolis

Project Masterplan (WRMP)

SMART HEALTH

Eliminating Health Disparities through integrated interoperable healthcare system

15 hospitals completed

47 to be completed by 2018

300 government hospitals will

have Electronic Medical Records

Smart devices and connectivity to be used at grassroots level for ground level health workers (E.g. Public Health Midwife and Public Health Inspectors)

SMART EDUCATION THE NEXT LEARNING PARADIGM SHIFT

Schools will have ICT

infrastructure

School children will have access

to technology and use it as a tool for

learning

Teachers will be using ICT as a tool for teaching

Connectivity for

school’s teaching

and learning material

in digital format

since the introduction of free education to the country

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Digital Master Plan

Digital Policy for General Education

Sustainability Mechanism

SMARTGOVERNMENT

860 Locations

LANKA GOVERNMENT NETWORK (LGN) 2.0

860 locations have been identified island wide for the first phase of LGN 2.0 which is expected to be completed by January 2018

2 -100 Mbps Last Mile

Bandwidth

Internet backbone of up to 10Gbps

Wi-Fi access from

anywhere

Integrated with Lanka Government

Cloud (LGC)

eREVENUE LICENSE SYSTEM

Department of Motor Traffic

Insurance Companies

Emission Test Companies

Banks

eRL System

Lanka Government

Network backbone

Lanka Government Cloud

Online Service Portal

All payment collection Assessment tax, trade taxes, etc.

All permits/applicationsConstruction permits, conformity of construction, gully service, trade license, etc.

3 Test sites

NegomboSeethawakapuraHomagama

30 sites replicated 80 eLG sited by 2018

LANKA GOVERNMENT CLOUD

Industry standard government cloud an Essential piece of infrastructure for ‘Digitization of Economy’.

WHYOUTCOMES/BENEFITS• All of Government to be facilitated -

no individual maintenance overheads, no upfront costs.

• Improved delivery of e-Gov solutions.

• Cross government/ common services facilitated - Ex: Document Management System.

• Big-data cluster as National platform for data.

• An OpenStack based enterprise cloud with DR/Geo-replication.

• Managed service model • Hybrid cloud• Premier platform for building

data-rich apps.• Big-data cluster as a

component.

IN A NUTSHELL

VISION 2022: ICT INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

$5 billion export revenue

Direct/indirect exports revenue from Australia is US$ 7,000,000 and additionally US$ 1,000,000 as a

potential sales pipeline

Gartner and AT Kearney ranking of Sri Lanka attracting captive and

offshore centers

360,000 ICT workforce

1845 professionals (since 2010) trained on key technological areas

2400+ vouchers provided for entry level vendor certifications

ICT / BPO Career guidance seminars for 50,000+ students since 2010

Linkage of SMART SOCIAL CIRCLES with

industry and global knowledge centers.

Build awareness and knowhowon best use of ICT technologies to improve quality of life, increase adoption

Promote active partnerships among citizens

through user-friendly online information and services

Build strong community networks

to create change through social media

Establish forum for a digitally empowered society and for Citizen Journalism

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Kilinochchi-5Mullativu-8

Mannar-9 Vavuniya-6

Trinco-13Anuradhapura-40

Polonnaruwa-17

Matale-31Puttalam-31

Kurunegala-92

Badulla-32

Kandy-68

Nuwara Eliya-28

Ampara-27

Moneragala-18

Hambatota-33

Ratnapura-33

Gampaha-67

Colombo-32

Kalutara-44

Galle-51Matara-37

Kegalle-32

SMART Social

Circles success

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Way Forward

A Digitally Inclusive Sri Lanka

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Thank you