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Matt Strickland Tuesday 11 May, 2021 AgriTech | AgriTech solutions | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Digitisation of agricultural value chains | English | Financial inclusion for farmers | Innovation Fund | Mobile for Development | Partnership engagement | Sri Lanka This is the second blog in a series introducing the grantees and key partners supporting The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. “ I’ve heard of mobile money, but I’m not really sure what use it is...

  LIRNEasia was represented at the inaugural Sri Lanka Internet Day, organised by the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) on 6-7 April 2021. Senior Research Manager Ayesha Zainudeen led a discussion on the challenges relating to women’s work in Sri Lanka that came about or were amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, in a session titled Women and tech: Is working from home all that it was cracked up to be? She was joined by panelists Bani Chandrasena (Head of Inclus...

Sri Lankan startup among four from APAC to win inaugural Microsoft Emerge X pitch competition December, 18, 2020 21 Emerge X startups from 14 countries pitched their ideas at the Emerge X Regional Pitching Competition with Sri Lankan startup Agrithmics identified as one of the four top startups in the whole region Four startups from Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Singapore are winners at Microsoft’s inaugural Emerge X Regional Pitching Competition in Asia Pacific: Abivin from Vietnam: An...