Real-Time Biosurveillance Pilot Programme in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned

Implementing e-government in Sri Lanka: Lessons from the UK

With the advancement of information and communication technologies (ICTs), e-government has emerged as an effective means of delivering government services to citizens. In the recent past, e-government has become popular in many economically developing countries, yet there are numerous attempts to reinvent the wheel. This article argues that e-government initiatives in developing countries can ...

Lessons Learned in Building Real-time Big Data Systems

Platform companies realized the critical nature of keeping this contract[2]. At the center of such a business is fast access to data. Note that the user data in an RTB system is changing constantly since the choice of actions at every user visit needs to take into account past behavior of that user. So, such RTB applications need databases that provide predictable sub-millisecond latency for re...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a country with an approximate area of 66 thousand square kilometers (UNO, 2008). The population is 20,409,946 and the sex ratio (men per hundred women) is 98 (UNO, 2009). The proportion of the population under the age of 18 years is 28% and the proportion above age 60 is 8% (UNO, 2009). The literacy rate is 97% for men and 99% for women (UN Statistics, 2008). The life expectancy at...

A Poverty Map for Sri Lanka—Findings and Lessons

Women in Sri Lanka