Building a robust AI future
The National AI Policy is at an advanced stage of preparation, having gone through extensive public consultation and adaptation to emerging opportunities and priorities, a top government official said.
“Development of the policy was led by the AI Advisory Committee and will encompass among others, the key topics of AI Infrastructure, citizen centric innovation, value realisation, inclusion, data governance, regulation and guardrails alongside protection of the rights of citizens in an AI era,” Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya said.
With the unprecedented pace of AI advancements and the immediacy of execution and value realisation opportunities, the work of the advisory committee has been recently institutionalised, with ICTA taking the lead in the interim, leading to comprehensive resourcing within the DEA and GovTech institutional structure. “Along with this institutionalisation, we are exploring several quick win projects targetting the conversion of AI capabilities into immediate and inclusive citizen value, priority projects being Sinhala and Tamil capabilities and Government Information Delivery, we will also accelerate the use of AI as a transformation tool within government,”, Dr. Wijayasuriya told The Sunday Times Business in an interview recently.
AI execution will be closely aligned with Sri Lanka’s Digital Economy Blueprint and will encompass Infrastructure, Data Architecture & Governance, skills and talent development, public awareness and adoption, research and development, AI Start-up enablement, private sector adoption, and the establishment of regulatory and ethical frameworks. There will be a parallel focus on establishing scalable infrastructure for AI research and innovation and the establishment of responsible AI governance, he said.
Artificial intelligence is disrupting every sphere of the digital economy, Dr. Wijayasuriya said, adding that the government is also exploring the need to modernise legislation across multiple spheres to enable value capture from AI.
Separately, the ICTA is set to issue Application Programming Interface (API) policies and usage guidelines for government and private sector interactions with government systems, he said. The governance of APIs will spotlight consistency, compliance, interoperability and security aligned with established standards, and will deal with key areas such as API design, security, and versioning.
Sri Lanka’s Digital Economy agenda aims for sustained economic development through Digital Transformation, Innovation and effective governance, underscored by citizen empowerment and a citizen-centric approach to digital service delivery, Dr. Wijayasuriya said.
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