Gamini Wickramasinghe

A pioneer in the software industry and private education in Sri Lanka, Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe was awarded a token of appreciation at INFOTEL 2014, from FITIS (Federation of Information Technology Industry of Sri Lanka) for the service he has rendered over the years to the ICT industry in Sri Lanka.

He returned to Sri Lanka in 1983 after his University education was in England and Belgium and established Informatics as a computer company. Informatics was a total turnkey solution company, which offered hardware, software, training and maintenance – i.e. the full range of requirements were offered.

With the realization that there was then a dearth of IT conversant human resources in Sri Lanka because the Universities were not producing a sufficient number of IT graduates to meet Sri Lanka’s demand, Informatics, in 1990, tied up with Manchester Metropolitan University to offer degrees in IT, Information Systems and Computer Science. the first institute offering British degrees in Sri Lanka.