Srilanka, Feb. 22 -- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday reaffirmed the government's commitment to positioning Sri Lanka as a globally competitive nation through advancements in digitalisation and innovation. Speaking at Innovation Island Summit 2025, held in Colombo, Dissanayake emphasised on strategies to promote transformative changes, particularly in emerging markets to achieve this objective.

With Sri Lanka showing growing interest in entrepreneurship, he stressed that the workforce must be encouraged to leverage digitalisation to drive innovation and commercialise new discoveries. "The president explained that innovation drives human civilization to new stages and creates new markets, stating that new markets emerge only ...