Gartner, Inc. one of the leading tech research and advisory firms in the world has identified Sri Lanka as being among the top 9 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region for the first time, for globally sourced activities in 2010-2011.
The other countries in the Asia Pacific Region that made the list were Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Sri Lanka is also among the top 30 locations in the world for offshore services in 2010/2011 being ranked by this firm, and this time all 30 destinations that have been ranked were from emerging economies.
Seven developed countries have moved out of the Top 30 this year – Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain while there were 8 new entries to the list, Sri Lanka being one of them.
The other seven countries that have entered the list were Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Colombia, Mauritius and Peru along with two re-entrants – Panama and Turkey.
The Country Business Manager for Intel, Mr. Indika De Zoysa said as a country this is something to be proud of and this shows the potential the country has to take great strides in the near future. “We have to expand and popularize the broadband services in the country. We also need to train more teachers and expand the remarkable projects that have been initiated by ICTAD and invest more on infrastructure. A lot of money has been allocated from the budget for such basic projects. We have come a long way and we have achieved a lot and are heading in the right direction”, he said.
Sri Lanka currently exports US$ 390 million worth of BPO and other outsourcing services per annum. It is the expectation of the government to develop this industry to earn US$ 1 billion by 2015.
Source:http://print.dailymirror.lk/business/127-local/31820.html
