{"id":94593,"date":"2019-10-31T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94593"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T22:45:34","slug":"sri-lanka-showcases-its-digital-potential-in-thailands-big-bang-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/31\/sri-lanka-showcases-its-digital-potential-in-thailands-big-bang-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka showcases its Digital Potential in Thailand\u2019s Big Bang 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Embassy of Sri Lanka, Bangkok<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Adding boost to Sri Lanka\u2019s growing potential as an\nemerging world ICT destination of choice, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Bangkok\ntogether with the Department of Commerce of Sri Lanka, organized for the first\ntime, the participation of Sri Lankan IT companies in the \u2018Digital Thailand-Big\nBang 2019 Exhibition\u2019 held in Bangkok Thailand from 28-31 October 2019. The Exhibition, which is considered the biggest international\nconference and exhibition on digital technology and innovation in South East\nAsia, had the overall theme of \u2018ASEAN Connectivity\u2019, also promoting and\nfeaturing Thailand\u2019s current Chairmanship of the ASEAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister of Thailand General Prayuth Chan O Cha, declared\nopen the exhibition which facilitated exhibits connecting to three distinct\nsegments, namely \u2018creativity zone\u2019 including advanced creativity in the field\nof digital technology, the \u2018society zone\u2019, encompassing new ways of improving\nquality of life and equal opportunities, and&nbsp; \u2018smart city zone\u2019 projecting\nfuture outlook of cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri\nLankan pavilion was opened by H.E. (Mrs.) Samantha K. Jayasuriya, Ambassador of\nSri Lanka to Thailand and Mr. Anil Sirimanna, First Secretary (Commerce) of the\nEmbassy also joined her on this occasion. The five IT companies, namely &nbsp;Imara\nSoftware Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, Softcodeit Solutions (Pvt) Ltd., Sky Management\nSystems (Pvt) Ltd,&nbsp; Itechro (Pvt) Ltd, and Silverleap Technology (Pvt)\nLtd. displayed their IT products and services ranging from\nBig Data Solutions, eBusiness Development, ERP Software, ICT Infrastructure\n&amp; Services, Mobile Application Development, Software Development, Systems\nIntegration, Web Development and Marketing, IOT, Cloud Services, Business\nSolutions and MIS, Payments Processor and Real-Time System etc. They already\nhave strong niche for their\nSoftware products and services to North America, EU, Australia, East Asia,\nMiddle East, Africa and in the Nordic, and Big Bang 2019 provided an\nopportunity to further explore potentials to expand into the ASEAN market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s IT sector is aspiring to transform the country\ninto the most prepared ICT hub in Asia and it is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> highest\nexport revenue generator in the country\u2019s economy, catering also as an offshore\ndevelopment center for several fortune 500 companies from the USA, Ireland, UK,\nAustralasia, Sweden and joint venture development companies from Sweden,\nNorway, USA, Japan, etc. &nbsp;The\nExhibition brought in more than 200 exhibitors from 14 countries from the\nregion and world and drew several thousands of visitors from multiple\ndisciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embassy\nof Sri Lanka,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangkok<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy of Sri Lanka, Bangkok Adding boost to Sri Lanka\u2019s growing potential as an emerging world ICT destination of choice, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Bangkok together with the Department of Commerce of Sri Lanka, organized for the first time, the participation of Sri Lankan IT companies in the \u2018Digital Thailand-Big Bang 2019 Exhibition\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94593","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=94593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}