Government to boost IT workforce to 200,000 in five years

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The government is expecting to increase the number of Information Technology (IT) professionals to 200,000 within five years to meet the challenges of the global IT market.

He said that only 85,000 IT specialists are currently available in the country.

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Nizar Thursday, 21 November 2024 12:50 PM

All the best Mr. President and Team. Scrap outdated degrees of no purpose Nizamand increase No of IT degrees students of the present and future gen.

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Mahesh Friday, 22 November 2024 08:54 AM

100% agree. Universities are offering outdated degrees and no use in current employment markets and the students have no choice in selecting what they wanted to achieve. Most students migrating to foreign countries and study and work abroad. This is the fundamental issue in our education systems . Previously we had outdated politicians and they have no visibility on the global stage.

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Krish Thursday, 21 November 2024 12:53 PM

TBF right now Sri Lankan IT job market is completely saturated. Due to COVID-19 and bancrupsy together with global economy which is still recovering, IT industry is in a downward trajectory at the moment. It it very difficult to find internships let alone jobs in IT industry at the moment.

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Good idea, but needs something out of the ordinary to make a difference Friday, 22 November 2024 04:10 AM

There is a lot of work in Sri Lankan government for IT, but 10,000 new workers should be plenty enough for whole of government. Traditional IT is what is dwindling. Cutting edge IT still takes the best, lot of money pouring into it overseas, but routine IT for potential work is dead end to pour money into.

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Suhada malli Thursday, 21 November 2024 02:24 PM

Create an IT City/Park close to the Jaffna University and give the space at a very concessionary Rent for the first 3 years for entrepreneurs who want to set up IT companies only in this city. (A fully facilitated campus kind of area). Diaspora will come and invest.

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Sami Thursday, 21 November 2024 05:00 PM

Sounds like setting up a foreign university. This is what ought to come from 13th ammendment that caught fire of then patriots, some of whome are now in power.

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Suhada malli Thursday, 21 November 2024 02:33 PM

Quality or relevance of the knowledge of our University lecturers in the IT field for all major universities including the large pvt universities such as SLIIT, ESOFT, NSBM, NIBM should be continuously updated and validated. For this the govt should facilitate every IT university to be strategically affiliated with a foreign university that has a strong IT faculty and use that relationship for sabatical opportunities and lecturer exchange programmes. Parallelly convince the diaspora whom AKD met to invest in Sri Lanka based IT companies to do work for the overseas companies. Also reach out to large companies like Microsoft Tesla Google to set up small development hubs here in SL.

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BAKAMUNA Thursday, 21 November 2024 03:16 PM

INVEST IN AI, WHY EMPLOYMENT ? WHEN IT CAN DO A 100 JOBS CLICK OF A BUTTON ? B FUTURE.

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JD Thursday, 21 November 2024 06:06 PM

One the contrary, the IT industry has gone downhill with layoffs, firms pulling out of the country, outsourcing from India and inadequate opportunities for fresh graduates. There are many IT professionals in long term unemployment or being forced to move into other industries to survive. Most of whom affected are under the five year experience mark.

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Hamza Thursday, 21 November 2024 06:24 PM

To run and keep it more efficient, it’s time students pay for the courses and see no trade union and all other jargon. Certainly those who really can’t afford give it free or better in form of small loan even it be for period of 10 or 15 years period. They certainly would perform well. If every thing is given free, then it turns into a long term carnival fiesta atmosphere wasting their valuable precious time. By the time they fully turn out their children will be seeing their mama papa completing and collecting their digrees that may be outdated. The olden days free stories are all gone with history. If they can pay for their transport, food, internet, ex classes what ever why can’t they pay for basic lecturers? No politics / trade union.? For trade union they can do politics. Strikes issues they can go to Galle Face on a Sunday or Poyaday and enjoy it without inconveniencing the innocent tax paying public on the long run have to finally pay for free education.

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Good for Lanka is culture not become Trump America Friday, 22 November 2024 04:13 AM

IT workers are usually not that capable when it comes to speaking out as groups. What makes you think anyone new into IT will be any different and actually use their brains? Asking students to pay for what is free university education is not going to work in Sri Lanka. UNP is for that, and they were trounced. The ideas you mentioned are best for Trump's America.

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Lanka is running out of youth in the coming years already Friday, 22 November 2024 06:34 AM

Old time jokers like yourself is what made this country bankrupt. All for big company, and nothing for farmer and ordinary wage earner. Already the country is has gone broke, and birth rate plummeted. Your kind of attitude will have the country dwindle more.

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Better possibility for dollars with broader capable IT workforce Friday, 22 November 2024 04:17 AM

Better try out for enlarged IT workforce to bring dollar income. India is big leader it IT provider for wealthier countries. By way of having a varied capable IT workforce in the many areas of IT, by shear number we might compete with India and get far more international contracts. Best for Sri lanka to try for this, rather than continue to hope on Garment factory workers.

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