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Aug 24-25 NITC offers cloud, iPV6, cyber war, m-payments, farming

A national-level IT conference schedued to be held in Colombo between the 24th and 25th of this month will showcase a wide and diverse range of topics, from cloud computing, cyber war, social media, data centre transformation, Internet identity and electronic governance, to even mobile payments, iPV6 (a new internet protocol) and ICT's use in farming, among many other areas.

Organised by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka, the 29th National information technology Conference (NITC) will feature the following keynote presentations by international speakers: "The threat of Cyber War - How real is it? The increasing need to protect IT critical infrastructure in Sri Lanka" by Prof. Abhaya Induruwa, Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for the Master's Programmes in Computing, Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Forensics at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK; "Fast Forward – Next Gen Shift in IT Solution" by A.V. Sreenath, Vice President (Enterprise, BFSI and Govt) at the Business Solutions Division of Wipro Infotec, India; "Information Risk Management – The Changing Paradigm" by Srinivas Rao, Co-Founder & CEO of Aujas Networks Pvt Ltd., India; and "Cloud Computing Strategy And Planning Transformation Design" by Martin Yates, Group Chairman for the Enterprise Cloud Computing Special Interest Group, Singapore Computer Society, and Global Solution Architect for Cloud Computing / Virtualisation, Solutions Architecture Director, Dell BV (Singapore).

Meanwhile, according to a statement by the organisers, this two-day event will comprise a total of 26 presentations by local and foreign speakers from both the commercial and academic sectors. Additionally indicated, the entire range of presentations wil touch upon "collaborative development within the context of Sri Lanka and the region, the ways of exploiting ICT trends, the innovation and development of ICT solutions, impacts of ICT on development and development on ICT" as well as topics such as "Web 2.0 technologies, Virtualization, the trends in Cloud Computing, Social Media, Social Computing and Networks, Information Security, Cyber-forensics and Cyber crime."

Also noted, the following subthemes will be on offer: "e-Government and Gov 2.0 –ICT for Public Sector Service delivery and collaborative social networking in effective Government, ICT for participatory citizenship, Developments for bridging the digital divide, Participatory systems access and equity, Web 2.0 technologies- Services available to collaborate and share information online, Web access for differently-able users, Technologies for New Learning - e-Learning, ICT in education, Life long and life wide learning, Interactive & Collaborative Learning, The Virtual University, Internet and Society – Social computing and Networks, Social Learning, ICT, Poverty and Development – ICT for Rural development and poverty reduction, GIS & IS in Agriculture and land use, Emerging technologies to fulfill the communication needs in mobile and fixed lines, Cloud computing and Network Virtualization, Information Security, Cyber-forensics, Cybercrime, Green IT."

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