Title: e Sri Lanka: Promise realized?
Author: Rohan Samarajiva
Source: Lanka Business Online (LBO.lk)
Publisher: Vanguard Management Services (Pvt) Limited
Date (published): 02/12/2009
Date (accessed): 03/12/2009
Type of information: article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
2009 has been year of celebration for the ICT Agency, the entity created to implement the e Sri Lanka program...For the first Sri Lankan government agency that was supposed to go out of business after having completed its work (by 2008), the first full year of non-sunsetted existence has been full of pomp and ceremony.

What did it achieve in its originally allotted five years? It would be useful to identify criteria that may be used by the citizens of Sri Lanka to assess success and hold it accountable for the next five years.

Success criteria must be related to outputs, not inputs. Not money spent but results achieved in forms that citizens and stakeholders can perceive. The measures would, ideally, be comparative (also applied to other countries). Sri Lanka must have improved its standing relative to our peers. Equipped as it was with a large World Bank credit and empowered as part of the President’s Office, ICTA has no excuses if success has not been achieved.