SLASSCOM, the national chamber for the IT/BPM industry in Sri Lanka has released their much-awaited Compensation & Benefits Report for 2022. Developed in collaboration with SLASSCOM’s HR Forum and PwC Sri Lanka, it covers several critical aspects. These include the necessary skills for entry-level positions in the industry, as well as the requirements for experienced.
On December 8, 2022, the EQUALS Global Partnership held its prestigious annual EQUALS in Tech Award ceremony, celebrating initiatives with powerful vision, significant impact and regional importance in bridging the gender digital divide. The awards were announced as part of the Partner2Connect annual meeting at ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the prestigious attendees, SLASSCOM.
The SLASSCOM HR Forum, comprising of leading HR professionals of the IT/BPM industry, who is passionate about building a progressive national workforce that is armed with the requisite skills to meet the future needs of the industry, recently signed an MOU with the STEMUP Educational Foundation, to collaborate with it’s Internship Portal, “CareerLink”, that is.
Board Director Regional Development Haridhu Abeygoonaratne
In its journey of gathering momentum to uplift Sri Lanka’s IT/BPM sector through homegrown
innovations and startups, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum and Regional Forum of Sri Lanka Association for Software Services Companies (SLASSCOM) is organising the chamber’s Innovations Awards competition, aptly named ‘SLASSCOM Ingenuity Awards’, under the Island of Ingenuity concept, to take place on a virtual platform connecting all nine districts of the island.
“As we head towards our Vision 2022 of achieving $ 5 billion in revenue, 200,000 jobs and 1,000 start-ups, the emphasis on encouraging innovation-centric SME startups is crucial,” shares SLASSCOM Chairman Channa Manoharan, adding that the chamber’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum is off to a promising head start, having kicked off an ambitious agenda aimed at building a self-sustaining platform to identify, mentor and uplift local st