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amounts of data collected and IMD World Competitiveness
used through flagship 4. Improve- Center (2019). IMD World
ment of digital payment offerings Digital Competitiveness Ranking
to include overseas providers to 2019. International Institute for
drive exports, and increasing lim- Management Development
its of mobile payments 5. Estab- (IMD).
lishment of agriculture online
marketplace to connect small- PWC (July 2020). Global Top
scale farmers and artisanal fishers 100 companies by market
directly to input suppliers and end capitalization. Retrieved from
buyers 6. Formalization and fund- https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ser-
ing of National ICT Skills Council vices/audit-assurance/publica-
with a mandate to match the tions/global-top-100-companies.
demand and supply for ICT labor html
in the country 7. Creation of
shared services platform that Schwab, K. (2019). The Global
offers price transparency, speed to Competitiveness Report 2019.
delivery, and better end-to-end World Economic Forum, Switzer-
experience for players in agricul- land. ISBN-13:
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cloud solution for SMEs in manu-
facturing.

These strategies could promote
Sri Lanka digital economy thro-
ugh the lens of three economic
development sectors; agriculture,
tourism and manufacturing. Then
transitioning Sri Lanka could
encourage a new wave of entre- Do you believe
preneurship and innovation amo-
ng the other economies. the power of
‘Digital’?

References
The world’s most valuable retailer has no
Bustis, A.D; Ganesan V. & inventory (Alibaba).
Herath G. (2018). Unlocking Sri
Lanka’s Digital Opportunity. The world’s most popular media owner
McKinsey & Company. creates no content (Facebook).
The world’s largest taxi company
Cisco (2019). Cisco Global owns no taxis (Uber).
Digital Readiness Index 2019.
Reviewed from https://www.cis-
co.com/c/dam/en_us/about/cs-
r/reports/global-di-
gital-readiness-index.pdf

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