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The apex body in Sri Lanka for government research funding is the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. [2] The Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD), a joint program between the Sri Lankan government and the World Bank, provides research grants to Sri Lanka's higher education institutes.
[1] [2] The institute is mainly focused on conducting research in the fields of electronics, micro-electronics, telecommunications, information technology, space technologies and robotics, and providing training for relevant industry professionals. [3] It is one of the few institutions of this kind in Sri Lanka. [4]
The Lihiniya MK 1 (Sinhala: ලිහිණියා මාක් 1) is an unmanned aerial vehicle under development by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) and the Centre for Research and Development (CRD) as an experimental platform to test technologies for its indigenous UAV program. [1] During the civil war the SLAF used UAVs for reconnaissance ...
The Academy of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (also known as SLINTEC Academy) is a private non-profit graduate school, founded as SLINTEC's knowledge dissemination arm. [37] The school offers MPhil and PhD degrees in Nano- and Advanced Sciences, and was formally inaugurated on 22 September 2017 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute .
It was established to develop the economy of Sri Lanka through ICT. To this end, it works to improve the country's technological capacity, such as building infrastructure, and the readiness of its people, through education and human resources. It is also active in developing regulations around the use of technology and disseminating information ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Industrial Development [30] [31] G. L. Peiris: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Industrial Development [32] [33] Ronnie de Mel: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001: Minister of Trade, Industrial ...
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [41] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [42]
However, due to the complexity of the word and the difficulty most non-native Sri Lankans would have with pronouncing this word, it was named after mythical King Raavana (Sinhala: රාවණ රජතුමා Ravana Rajathuma), who is said to have ruled Sri Lanka at the time the Dadhu Monara was built. King Raavana is a notable King in Sri ...