Lanka’s digital economy needs creative DPI business models: Official

Sri Lanka needs to consider different types of business arrangements for its digital ecosystem, other than in procurement-based interactions, according to a top government official.

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“We need to be open to other forms of interactions, such as licensing off a service where the government issues a license for an entity to carry out that service and pay the government some license fee and be regulated about compliance, along with new procurement models, licensing models or public private partnerships where, the government can part invest or present a business plan which the private sector can also invest in should be explored. This approach then can change from buying and building to creating a business model, such as selling licenses, like in the telecom industry that we have seen here,” Chief Adviser to the