Sri Lanka re-elected as Chair of UNESCAP ICT Committee third time

Secretary to President and TRC Chief Lalith Weeratunga has been reappointed as the Chairman of the UNESCAP ICT Committee.

This is the third re-election of Sri Lanka and Weeratunga. He was re-elected for a second term in November 2010. The Chairmanship is for two years.



ICT industry hailed the re-appointment as a major boost for UNESCAP as well as d Sri Lanka which has been a model for rapid progress in the ICT sphere, a portfolio which current President Mahinda Rajapaksa championed when he was the Premier as well.

The Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) addresses the following issues: integration of ICT-related issues in development policies, plans and programmes; transfer and application of ICT at the regional and sub-regional levels; development of human and institutional capacity in the use of ICT; and ICT applications for disaster risk reduction

Sri Lanka was first elected to the chair of UNESCAP’s ICT Committee for the first time and that too unanimously in 2008.