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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.
To nurture and support the growth of women technopreneurs in Sri Lanka, the SLASSCOM Women Technopreneurs Forum (WTech) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), with assistance from the Government of Japan, will launch a bootcamp and a one-on-one mentoring program with the aim of supporting women technopreneurs in Sri Lanka to connect with an unparalleled.
The Women Technopreneurs Forum (WTech Forum) is an initiative by SLASSCOM to create positive change across the startup ecosystem in Sri Lanka for women and to harness the potential of female tech entrepreneurs to contribute to the achievement of SLASSCOM’s goal of 1,000 startups by 2025. It aims to support, promote and grow women tech.
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