About 30,000 visitors are expected at the forthcoming e-Asia 2009 ICT exhibition scheduled for December 2 onwards at the BMICH in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
These visitors will represent 45 countries, with most being from Asia, while 1,000 international delegates and 800 locals are expected to participate at e-Asia's conference which will include "40 thematic seminal sessions covering e-Governance, Digital Learning, e-Health, Tele-centers and Emerging e-Technologies,” according to a statement by Sri Lanka's Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA).
Also indicating that interest in the event was "gathering momentum", the statement referred to recent remarks by ICTA chief Reshan Dewapura who noted one example of international interest in the conference is "the response to the call for papers far [exceeding] expectations. By the deadline there were more than 350 papers from 24 countries including India, Sri Lanka , Sweden, Philippines, Japan, Israel, Nepal, Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, Uganda, USA, USA, Malaysia, Albania, Australia, Japan, Morocco, France, Switzerland, Argentina, Egypt, United Kingdom and Kenya" He added: “One specialty of e-Asia 2009 is the addition of another thematic sector, namely Emerging Technologies and the highest number of papers are from this category, namely 102, while e-Government has 65, Digital Learning, 96, e-Health, 62, and Tele-center Forum, 30”. (JH) |
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