FITIS comes forward to address industry issues

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The Hardware Chapter of the Federation of IT Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) organises the ICT Vendors’ open forum every year to discuss problems, issues, policy and regulatory complexities, etc. facing the ICT industry in Sri Lanka.

As a part of FITIS’s mandate it focuses on protecting the rights of ICT businessmen and professionals, enabling them to make way for the development of the ICT industry in Sri Lanka.

FITIS not only believes in Public-Private Partnerships and in assisting the Government of Sri Lanka in ICT-related objectives like the National ICT Policy, but also believes in advocacy of end user rights such as cases of warranty, guarantee, counterfeit, de-regulation, fraud issues of grey channel and any other denial of end user rights.

The ICT vendors, particularly in the hardware sector, dealers and agents are facing obstacles, difficulties, confusions and complexities in carrying out their day-to-day business resulting in loss of business and profits.

“In response to the issues and problems facing the ICT industry in Sri Lanka, FITIS Hardware Chapter organises this forum every year to discuss and brainstorm and to collectively find a way forward for the ICT vendors who are experiencing such difficulties. We have invited representatives from Sri Lanka Customs, National Consumer Authority, ICTA and TRC, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Finance and Digital Forensic Department of Sri Lanka Police for this forum to meet the ICT industry on 21 June at OZO Colombo. This is a friendly discussion between the authorities and the industry to address those issues in a sustainable way,” said FITIS Hardware Chapter President Fazloon Sheriff.

Interested ICT companies can register at [email protected]/0112665261 and also send their questions to be raised with the relevant authorities.

Established in 1994, FITIS acts as the nucleus of five industry associations of the ICT Industry. With a cumulative membership of over 210 active business firms in ICT industry FITIS is committed to foster a healthy growth of the industry focusing on resolving policy issues, lobbying with State authorities, cooperation and alignment with regional and global industry bodies and promoting harmony and innovations within the ICT industry.