INFORMATION AND CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY OF SRI LANKA
LT
Analysis
of the
Present
Status
focuses on the status of telecommunication
infrastructure, Internet facilities, and Internet usage,
This section presents an overview of the overall ICT
readiness, the current status of the digital government
initiatives in Sri Lanka, and information and cyber
security landscape of Sri Lanka.
and (c) 0.7363 human capital index (HCI) which focus
on adult literacy and level of schooling’. Thus, our
scores in the online service index and the human
capital index are above the global average while our
Our ICT Readiness
score in the telecommunication infrastructure index is
below the global average.
In Sri Lanka IT Literacy is 28.3% and Digital Literacy is
38.7%’. Fixed telephone subscription per 100
Online
Service
Index
0.6522
inhabitants is 12.49, mobile phone subscriptions per
100 inhabitants is 103.16, and broadband
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants is 10.45*. Household
computer ownership is 23.5% while the Internet usage
stands at 21.3%, and email usage at 11%’. There is a
significant disparity in ICT readiness among the Urban,
Rural and Estates sectors in Sri Lanka.
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Household
Computer
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Telephone
Ownership
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23.5%
Urban: 39.9%
Rural: 21%
Estate: 5.1%
f
Subscriptions
per 100
12.49 (Fixed)
103.1 (Mobile)
.
eGovernment
Infrastruct
Development Index
ure Index
0.2445
Broadband
Subscriptions
0.5445
Rank 79
per 100
Fixed 2.65
Wireless 7.8
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a. Computer Literacy 28.3%
Internet Usage
21.3%
(Urban 41.1%, Rural 26.5%, Estate
9.5%)
11%
(Urban 54.5%, Rural 36.4%, Estate
16.4%)
Email usage
Teleco.
‘
Human
Capital
Index
0.7369
b. Digital Literacy 38.7%
3%
f
Progress of the development of digital government°
3
Y
Devices use to Connect to Internet
Desktop or Laptops 38.1%
Smart Phones 56.9%
Tablets 2.1%
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6
°.
Mobile Phones 2.9%
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Our Progress in Digital Government
Sri Lanka is ranked 79 in the United Nations e-
0.5
Ss
“5445
°3
0.2
member countries’. In 2016, we scored (a) 0.6522
in online service index (OSD which focuses on overall
0.1
telecommunication infrastructure index (TI) which
3522
0.4
government development index (EGDI) among 190
digital government applications, (b) 0.2445 in
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2010
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2016