WSA Chief praises Mahinda for his farsighted and mature leadership
Friday, 25 October 2013 03:50
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World Summit Awards Chairman Professor Peter A. Bruck yesterday praised President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his mature and farsighted wisdom in leading the country.
“President Mahinda Rajapaksa has shown maturity of wisdom in taking the country towards the high goal of making Sri Lanka a country of peace and a regional knowledge hub,” the WSA Chairman said.
The Professor expressed this view while participating at the inauguration of the WSA 2013 conference held at The Kingsbury in Colombo yesterday.
Speaking further on the same lines of eulogy on the occasion, the Professor paid a glowing tribute to President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his ground-breaking speech that he delivered at the UN General Assembly Session in New York recently.
Professor Bruck praised the President for his bold and fair appeal to the world body to treat all member states on an equal footing, whether they be advantaged or disadvantaged on any ground, economy or number or the like.
In yet another gesture of plaudits to the Sri Lankan President and its people, the WSA Chairman said ‘bravo’ to the great strides Sri Lanka has made in post-war reconstruction efforts, especially by the use of ICT. He was impressed very much with the island’s flagship telecentre/ wisdom outlet, the Nensala or Arivaham project, a brainchild of the Sri Lankan President that is now widespread throughout Sri Lanka including the north and east, hitting the 740th mark of such centres.
Referring to more technological and practical issues in ICT development and socioeconomic transformation, his practical advice was that it is not enough to develop new features in software or hardware, it is also important to have an eye on opening up new business that these innovations could trigger.
The Professor said that people of ages 30-40 or of the older group were not dead wood. “The challenge that all, whether young or old, should take up and have to face up to is to work together to bring about a better world,” the WSA Chairman added.
