Author: Chamali Perera

Professor Sam Karunaratne

Professor Sam Karunaratne recollects a period more than half a century ago – i.e., the 1960s - when computerization commenced in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon.  He recalls that the Government in the late 1960s decided to allocate a computer to a State sector organization.  Dr. A.N.S. Kulasinghe, a civil engineer and the Founder Chairman of the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) indicated that he was in dire need of a computer.   Consequently, SEC was allocated slightly over LKR 2 million to purchase a computer.   Prof. Sam Karunaratne who was then at the U...
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Mr Kolitha Dharmawardena (Admissibility of information produced by computers and related devices)

Mr. Dharmawardena became a member of the CINTEC Committee on Law and Computers in 1986. He represented the Attorney General’s Department. CINTEC, the predecessor to the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, set up the Committee on Law and Computers to address the “formulation and incorporation into the country’s legal system suitable measures relating to computers and IT ….”. The Committee, at the outset realized that there was a need to examine the law of evidence to ascertain whether it could deal with new conditions that could emerge through the use of IT. This key assignment on the preparation of p...
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Mr. Manju Haththotuwa

Mr. Manju Haththotuwa was educated at Royal College, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has a BSc (Hons) from the Imperial College, London and also an MBA from the University of London. He was COO / Executive Director at Millennium IT (MIT), an industry leader in Stock Exchange software. Mr. Haththotuwa states that his involvement in ICT at MIT indicated his enthusiasm to develop the ICT sector. Manju was the founder Managing Director / CEO of the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka. ICTA commenced operations on 1st July 2003, at Kirimandala Mawatha, Colombo 05. A key ...
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Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe

Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe, a pioneer in the software industry and private education in Sri Lanka, is the Founder and Chairman of the Informatics Group. His University education was in England and Belgium. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1983 and established Informatics as a computer company. Informatics was a total turnkey solution company, which offered hardware, software, training and maintenance - i.e. the full range of requirements were offered. With the realization that there was then a dearth of IT conversant human resources in Sri Lanka because the Universities were not producing a s...
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