It is aimed at providing secure and accessible digital services to citizens and businesses in achieving development goals its increasing efficiency in the public sector and unlocking innovation in the private sector.

More broadly, digital transformation of the government can improve policy implementation and widen the range of policy options.

The government has taken a significant step towards in its DPI initiative in partnership with the World Bank on the directions of President Ranil Wickremasinghe with a vision for a brighter digital future, he claimed. .

This digital leap is not digitalization of specific public services, but rather building minimal digital building blocks that can be used by government as well as private sector to enable society-wide transformation.

The DPI includes a digital identification layer including a unique identification and social security number a payments system running as a unified payment interface; a data exchange layer and other services.

Sri Lanka’s digital economy, projected to be worth US$3.47 billion, is developing, with more than 60 percent of the population owning mobile phones and an increasing number of internet users

Mr Kraunanayake noted that the ambition of the President is to create a technology-driven society, with a concentration on digital based governance, economy, and society at least by the year 2030.
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Foundational digital public infrastructure (DPI), which includes unique digital identification, a payment system, and a data exchange layer, has the capability to transform the economy and promote inclusive growth.