In line with the new education reforms, under the long-term plan of the Information and Communication Technology Division of the Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education for the digital transformation of general education, a program was conducted to provide digital devices to schools while simultaneously developing the human resource capacity of the school system. As part of this initiative, a progress review meeting of the overseas training program held in collaboration with the People’s Republic of China was conducted at the Ministry, under the patronage of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education Dr. Harini Amarasuriya.

Under the implementation of the Digital Government Policy, with the support of the Department of External Resources, the digital transformation program planned to be continuously carried out at the school, zonal, and provincial levels, has become a unique opportunity received by the education system of the country for human resource development. For the first phase, a group of 38 individuals participated in the overseas training program.