{"id":113371,"date":"2021-04-08T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113371"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:57:53","slug":"citizen-centric-digital-government-being-set-up-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/08\/citizen-centric-digital-government-being-set-up-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Centric Digital Government being set up: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>BY\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themorning.lk\/author\/aazam\/\">AAZAM AMEEN courtesy The Morning.lk<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In his address to the audience at the\nvirtual event inaugurating Sri Lanka Internet Day 2021 held on the 6th and 7th\nof April, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pledged to set up a Citizen Centric\nDigital Government for the convenience of Sri Lanka\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stressing on the fact that a technology\nbased society pillar cannot be overlooked, the president stated that Citizen\nService Centres will soon adopt new technology for public service delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A digital payment system to pay traffic\nfines and a e-procurement system to eliminate bribery and corruption are\nenvisaged under the plans to further digitalise Sri Lanka via the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president also remarked that\nsubstantial work has been done with regard to the introduction of a unique\ndigital identity card with state-of-the-art technology which will soon be\navailable for every citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also highlighted how the country will\nbenefit from a system of e-governance, A well implemented e-governance\nframework will not only ensure the well-being of the people in their day-to-day\nactivities, but will also make the government work efficiently and effectively.\nThis will drastically reduce corruption in transactions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the President stated that\nharnessing the power of Sri Lanka\u2019s internet connectivity will result in an\nefficient e-governance programme which will in turn save the time of the public\nwhen they need to get essential tasks done via the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0AAZAM AMEEN courtesy The Morning.lk In his address to the audience at the virtual event inaugurating Sri Lanka Internet Day 2021 held on the 6th and 7th of April, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pledged to set up a Citizen Centric Digital Government for the convenience of Sri Lanka\u2019s citizens. Stressing on the fact that a technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}