Sri Lanka’s public sector has been empowered with necessary ICT infrastructure to carry out public service efficiently.
But the lack of computer literacy, back office operations, communication skills in English among officials will become hindrance to day to day work after reopening of state institutions.
ICTA continued to implement the Lanka Government Network 2.0 project, which aims to connect 860 government locations in a cost effective and secure manner.
The expenditure on this project was around Rs. 674.9 million in 2019. ICTA engaged in the creation of a government big data cluster through the Lanka Government Cloud 2.0 project.
96 per cent of physical progress was achieved by end 2019 with an expenditure of Rs. 102.3 million in 2019.
Further, ICTA was engaged in the Employee Trust Fund Management System project in 2019 with the view to provide online access to Employee Trust Fund information to both employees and employers.
Moreover, numerous other projects, including the Integrated Welfare Management System, ICT Human Resource Capacity Building for Government Digital Transformation, National Spatial Data Infrastructure-Phase (II), Smart Society and Citizen Capacity Building Project and Cross Government Digital Document Management System, were carried out n 2019.
Several training and awareness programmes have been conducted for public officials on digitalisation of the country in 2019.
(LIN)