Under the future government, a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) would be created to improve public service delivery, accelerate the development goals, and ensure good governance.

• Under the DPI initiative, all citizens of Sri Lanka would be given a specific identification number. This would ensure the efficiency of services provided to them by enabling them to provide currently cumbersome services such as obtaining birth, marriage, and death certificates, passports, and certified copies of important documents with the press of a button.
• The DPI that creates Data Interoperability between the government and the citizen, and between government institutions, banks and recognised financial institutions would be put in place within two years. A system to enhance digital financial transactions will be instituted, transforming Sri Lanka into a cashless, transaction-oriented modern society.
• Expanding the Lanka Government Network and Lanka Government Cloud to cover the entire Sri Lankan government institutional system, and technologically empowering it to provide optimal service to all government institutions.
• A comprehensive Cyber Security law will be introduced to Sri Lanka within three months.
• Necessary regulations will be enacted, and facilities will be provided for the effective implementation of the Personal Data Protection Act No. 09 of 2022.
• Establishment of a Development Fund, with private sector participation, to promote startups.
• Resolving the issue of lack of high-speed internet facilities, which has been a barrier to the development of information technology enterprises and efficient citizen service delivery in Sri Lanka, will be considered a priority of this government.
• Removing unfair taxes imposed on businesses in the information technology sector and introducing a new, fair, and attractive tax policy for the sector, recognizing its unique contribution to the country’s development.
• Minimizing taxes on electronic equipment imported to Sri Lanka for information technology businesses.

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