{"id":61027,"date":"2016-12-01T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61027"},"modified":"2016-11-30T23:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:42:41","slug":"computer-society-of-sri-lanka-cssl-elects-the-new-council-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/01\/computer-society-of-sri-lanka-cssl-elects-the-new-council-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) Elects the New Council for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the recently held Annual General Meeting of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), a new Executive Council was elected. Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama was elected President of the CSSL for year 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Abeywickrama, a known industry activist has been with CSSL Executive Council for five years before becoming the President. He also has held leadership roles with the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and is the first ever Sri Lankan to be elected to the largest international federation in the Information Technology (IT) industry, called IFIP \u2013 International Federation for Information Processing.<\/p>\n<p>The council elected at the AGM is as follows.<\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama<\/p>\n<p>Vice President\u00a0 Mr. W K Prabath Samindra<\/p>\n<p>Secretary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Damith Hettihewa<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Ajantha Athukorala<\/p>\n<p>Asst. Secretary\u00a0 Dr Malitha Wijesundara<\/p>\n<p>Asst. Treasurer Mr. Parakum Amaranga Pathirana<\/p>\n<p>Student Counselor\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. T A Samantha Thelijjagoda<\/p>\n<p>Publication Secretary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Enosh Praveen<\/p>\n<p>Council Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Dayan Rajapakse<\/p>\n<p>Council Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Heshan Karunaratne<\/p>\n<p>Council Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Buddhika Senasekara<\/p>\n<p>Council Member\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Sajith Sameera<\/p>\n<p>New President thanked outgoing President Dr Dayan Rajapakse for his successful two year term as President, where he guided the Society strategically to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>Abeywickrama presented his vision under five broad thrust areas. They are Engaging and Representative, Active, Thought Leader &amp; Knowledge Platform, Recognition and Vocal, Present &amp; Communicate. The new council will focus strategically on these five areas by implementing various events, activities, projects and initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama At the recently held Annual General Meeting of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), a new Executive Council was elected. Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama was elected President of the CSSL for year 2017. Abeywickrama, a known industry activist has been with CSSL Executive Council for five years before becoming the President. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027","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=61027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}