Digital Economy Ministry at work on G-cloud, Digital ID and transportation
View(s):The Sri Lanka government cloud, the Digital ID and digitising bus and train tickets will be high-priority projects of the Digital Economic Ministry, top officials said.
Eranga Weeraratna, Deputy Minister of Digital Economiy, told The Sunday Times Business on Thursday the government has laid out an ambitious agenda focused on digital transformation within the state sector and that the Sri Lanka Government Cloud, the Digital ID project and the bus/train ticket project are now being looked at by the Ministry.
“We will be analysing the feasibility of a public-private partnership or a complete overhaul of the government cloud. Currently, we are looking at how best to go about this.” Mr. Weeraratna said. He also noted that the ministry is concentrating on the digital ID system. “Now the digital ID is done through the Department of Registrar of Persons. We will be looking at the gaps in the current system,” he said. The ministry will also compare and analyse the MOSIP (which helps governments conceive, develop, and implement effective foundational ID systems in their countries) grant from India to carry out the digital ID revamp project. “We need to see the best option in terms of technology, sustainability, financial benefit, and implementation timelines.”
Initiatives other than these include improvements in land taxation processes and a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s industrial policy, which aims to create a stable and predictable environment for both domestic and international investors. Mr. Weeraratna said there will be significant improvements to the government e-tendering process and it will be upgraded for tender submission and evaluation aimed at enhancing efficiency, transparency, and user experience.
He said the Ministry of Digital Economy will have five different agencies – the Information Communication Technology Agency, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team, The Data Protection Authority, the Telecommunication Regulation Commission, and the two telcos -Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), and Mobitel. The government will not be selling SLT as it needs to have Internet connectivity for infrastructure, he added.
He said the four key areas that the Ministry of Digital Economy will focus on will be making the IT industry a US $5 billion industry in six years, implementing e-Governance to reduce corruption, increasing cashless transactions from $3.45 billion to $15 billion in six years, and increasing the IT workforce from 85,000 annually to 200,000 in six years.
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