The country’s IT sector is an integral part of its economic and social development. With the accelerated pace of digitalization, attracting and training young talent to drive the industry forward, has become primary in shaping the IT landscape of Sri Lanka The Future Careers BRIDGE program (www.futurecareersbridge.net/) and Boot Camp prepares youth with the requisite […]
The SLASSCOM HR Forum, comprising of leading HR professionals of the IT/BPM industry, who is passionate about building a progressive national workforce that is armed with the requisite skills to meet the future needs of the industry, recently signed an MoU with the STEMUP Educational Foundation, to collaborate with its Internship Portal, “CareerLink”, that is […]
The search and competition for individuals of extreme skills, original creativity, and considerable talent is on-going worldwide and is showing no tendency of diminishing. If anything, the search for talents—or key players—for the global knowledge economy is becoming increasingly fiercer. Sri Lanka is of particular interest in this development, as it is at a stage […]
Passionate in grooming Sri Lanka’s next generation with capabilities to take the island into a new era of knowledge-based innovation and growth, Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) has always dedicated itself to the cause of technology education for children. As an initiative of the association’s Capacity Forum, TechKids has been one […]
With the aim of supporting the governments vision of building a digitally inclusive Sri Lanka, that includes the next generation being provided with opportunities to engage in digitally driven innovation to develop new solutions, SLASSCOM recently signed MoUs with four key start-up hubs, namely Sabaragamuwa, Wayamba, Eastern and Central Startup Hubs, covering four of the […]
The Women Technopreneurs Forum (WTech) of Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM), having mentoring as a key pillar in its approach to support, promote and grow women technopreneurs, has outlined a two-pronged approach to mentoring, that will include providing services to first-level technopreneurs with a feasible idea or those have been in […]
Cloud computing is no longer just a buzzword – it’s an industry with a global market value of $371 billion (and growing). Through 2025, the global cloud computing market is set to exceed $832 billion in value.The countless reasons why cloud computing is important for business stems from its ability to allow organizations to scale, […]
Representative bodies of the local IT-BPM industry yesterday collectively called upon the government to respond to the voice of citizens in a responsible manner and restore stability with pragmatic solutions through consultation. In a joint statement to the media, the industry urged the government to respect the voice of the people. The statement was issued […]
SLASSCOM, Sri Lanka’s national chamber for the IT-BPM industry, FITIS, Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka, and the Computer Society of Sri Lanka(CSSL) the national association of ICT Professionals, the key trade chambers representing the IT-BPM industry express their concern on the evolving situation in the country. They urge the government to respond to […]
The pandemic has unquestionably challenged the world of education, leading to the acceleration of new tools, attitudes and long-needed education reforms, taking place at a faster pace than ever before. Keeping with this trend, the University of Moratuwa (UoM), slated as one of the country’s most respected local universities for IT Education, and DP Education, […]
