Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
Sri Lanka holds the first place in training mobile technology in the world, President of the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals Sri Lanka, Ishantha Siribaddana said.

The Institute of Java and Technological Studies (IJTS) started mobile technology training programmes two years back even before Sun Microsystems started training programmes in USA.

The mobile software developers have a huge demand in the international job market and in UK one developer could earn nearly 13,000 pounds per month. This is a good foreign exchange earner for the country.

“With the advent of the next technological era, mobile software application development will play a major role, since mCommerce contributes dramatically for the economic growth in the country, anywhere around the globe.

The mobile phone will be capable to provide all facilities to implement mCommerce requirement, Siribaddana said. So far IJTS has provided mobile technology training for around 500 students.

We have the expertise to provide this training to the foreign students too. But it is important for us to educate our youth on this technology and derive advantages for Sri Lanka”. “Our student population has huge capacity to develop world class software. Local students need methodical training to get acquainted to the subject.

It is understood that their logical understanding power is much higher than the foreign students,” he said. “Machinery based hard technology is not suitable for a country like Sri Lanka. The brain capacity of the people can be used to earn foreign currency using this soft technology through Java Technology.

The labour- based economy can be converted into knowledge based economy to make a better service oriented country like Sri Lanka,” he said.

IJTS is an institute which provides training on Java technology. IJTS provides training programmes for all Java examinations.

Source: DAILY NEWS