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Aug 24-25 NITC offers cloud, iPV6, cyber war, m-payments, farming

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A national-level IT conference scheduled to be held in Colombo between the 24th and 25th of this month will showcase a wide and diverse range of topics, from cloud computing, cyber war, social media, data centre transformation, Internet identity and electronic governance, to even mobile payments, iPV6 (a new internet protocol) and ICT’s use in farming, among many other areas.

Organised by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka, the 29th National information Technology Conference (NITC) will feature the following keynote presentations by international speakers: “The threat of Cyber War – How real is it? The increasing need to protect IT critical infrastructure in Sri Lanka” by Prof. Abhaya Induruwa, Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for the Master’s Programmes in Computing, Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Forensics at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK; “Fast Forward – Next Gen Shift in IT Solution” by A.V. Sreenath, Vice President (Enterprise, BFSI and Govt) at the Business Solutions Division of Wipro Infotec, India; “Information Risk Management – The Changing Paradigm” by Srinivas Rao, Co-Founder & CEO of Aujas Networks Pvt Ltd., India; and “Cloud Computing Strategy And Planning Transformation Design” by Martin Yates, Group Chairman for the Enterprise Cloud Computing Special Interest Group, Singapore Computer Society, and Global Solution Architect for Cloud Computing / Virtualisation, Solutions Architecture Director, Dell BV (Singapore).

Meanwhile, according to a statement by the organisers, this two-day event will comprise a total of 26 presentations by local and foreign speakers from both the commercial and academic sectors. Additionally indicated, the entire range of presentations wil touch upon “collaborative development within the context of Sri Lanka and the region, the ways of exploiting ICT trends, the innovation and development of ICT solutions, impacts of ICT on development and development on ICT” as well as topics such as “Web 2.0 technologies, Virtualisation, the trends in Cloud Computing, Social Media, Social Computing and Networks, Information Security, Cyber-forensics and Cyber crime.”

Also noted, the following sub-themes will be on offer: “e-Government and Gov 2.0 –ICT for Public Sector Service delivery and collaborative social networking in effective Government, ICT for participatory citizenship, Developments for bridging the digital divide, Participatory systems access and equity, Web 2.0 technologies- Services available to collaborate and share information online, Web access for differently-able users, Technologies for New Learning – e-Learning, ICT in education, Life long and life wide learning, Interactive & Collaborative Learning, The Virtual University, Internet and Society – Social computing and Networks, Social Learning, ICT, Poverty and Development – ICT for Rural development and poverty reduction, GIS & IS in Agriculture and land use, Emerging technologies to fulfill the communication needs in mobile and fixed lines, Cloud computing and Network Virtualisation, Information Security, Cyber-forensics, Cybercrime, Green IT.”

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Infotel to kick off at the end of September

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The popular Sri Lankan ICT exhibition Infotel will be held this year again at the BMICH starting from September 30 and ending on October 4, a five day period, the organisers said this week.

A local exhibition held over the past 18 years, Infotel was last organised in 2008 by the Federation of Information Technology Industry of Sri Lanka (FITISL) at which time as many as 30,000 visited the exhibition over its entire run.

Additionally, again according to Infotel’s launch announcement, the exhibition will coincide with the “National ICT Week 2010”. This includes “the CEO conclave and walk, student day and career guidance fair where large number of students from schools in the western province are expected to participate. In addition the Infotel FORUM, FITISL Young Computer Scientist (YCS) Awards, ICTer2010 International ICT Conference and the National Best Quality Software awards ceremony.”

Meanwhile, it has also been indicated that the exhibition will showcase products and solutions ranging from computer hardware, Business Software, SAS, Cloud Computing, Virtualisation, iDC, ICT Security, Hosted PBX, IP networking, Tele presence, Collaboration Technologies, Systems Integration, ITES (IT Enabled Services), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Office Automation to Telecommunication Equipment, Mobile Broadband, NGN (Next Generation Networks), Ubiquity, 3G, 4G, Wimax, LTE, IPTV, IP Convergence, IPv6 Technology, Smartphone Applications, Navigation and LBS (Location Based Services), ICT Training, Electronic Media, Computer Gaming, Medical Electronics, e-Citizen Services and e-Sri Lanka initiatives”.