In 2004 I got the opportunity to work with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle. It was Amazon’s first foray into hardware and I learned a ton from my interactions with Jeff. Here’s some of the stories and lessons that I took away from that experience:
Paraqum Networks @paraqum, Sri Lanka’s amazing network management hardware company has released their enterprise product line: https://t.co/W5GKtdxSYG.
WSO2 was their first enterprise customer like 4 years ago!
Congrats to Dr. Ajith Pasqual @aapasqual, founder & CEO & team!
The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka is hiring a CTO: https://t.co/y8W9EcNDFz.
Competitive salary and a great opportunity for the right person to influence Sri Lanka’s digital transformation.
(I volunteer on ICTA’s technical advisory council.)
@samarajiva@icta_srilanka
Govt. of Pakistan has announced "Allama Iqbal Scholarships for Sri Lankan students " for undergraduate, postgraduate and post-doc studies tenable at high ranked universities in Pakistan. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2019 for 2019. https://t.co/GXf6gxAR2C
Are you tired of the crazy politics risking our country’s security?
A bunch of us got together and wrote an open letter to the President and PM: https://t.co/AfxNUnXWik.
Please read & fill the form to register your support! Sinhala and Tamil docs coming later today.
Please RT!
Why are so many sites popping up to raise money internationally to help the people affected by the Easter bombings?
This is not the tsunami when 40,000 died and 1M were affected. Only 500+ affected.
Be aware that some of these are likely fake or will have large “overheads”.
A genuine challenge in this #AvuruduLK
Support us to promote the Campaign of raising Rs 1 Bn to purchase a Tomo-therapy and a Linear Accelerator Machine for Maharagama Apeksha cancer Hospital In 🇱🇰. Need 1000 RT. Go @AzzamAmeen@RamanayakeR@RajapaksaNamal@HarshadeSilvaMP
@kavindya_T@USEmbSL @USAmbSLM @Wellesley Email directly to the Embassy and HE Ambassador. Sometimes it works. I got a rejection reviews and approved but conditions were different
We've joined hands with @Trace_LK and Sri Lanka Technological Campus for Re:START Bootcamp. The aim of the program is to remedy the skills mismatch that exists in #lka and equip the youth with the necessary skills to build capacity in the IT sector.
This police officer who is doing his duty near Chinese dragon rajagiriya is a really really nice person. He wish every person he passes by a good morning with a gentle smile despite all the difficult duties he has to perform. Such people are blessed and rare 🙂
This is the old way of thinking @PresRajapaksa really needs to move on and make way for the new generation that thinks different #lka can't afford to be taken down this path to economic disaster as in the good ole days #SriLanka is rising to a new day - this man clearly outdated
@ThishWera@tingilye They can pass the Foundation courses offered by the Open Univeraity of Sri Lanka ( OUSL) and follow Degree / Higher Diploma / Diploma programs at the OUSL.
Congratulations to #lka born @Stanford post-doc researcher @HasiniJt on making it to @Forbes#30Under30 List in global science. She discovered a signaling pathway that controls how #cancer cells metastasize through the body and a way to block that pathway. https://t.co/GMnuqcI8Mq
Lanka Software Foundation is looking for a full stack engineer to work on software to help improve education information in Sri Lanka.
This is part of LSF’s efforts to write software to help improve the country.
Advert image attached. Please RT as appropriate.