Nidahas » Musings on design, web standards and free software from a Sri Lankan geek.

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1. Janin

   March 26th, 2006 at 3:05 pm

   The biggest asset that Sri Lanka has and always will be is it’s people, irrespective of their racial background. Our ingenuity at making something, even with all the adversity that living here throws at us. Combined with our generally high level of education, is sadly highly undervalued in this country. We don’t shout enough about our succesful people in Colombo, and don’t nurture or openly mentor people enough. If we had more industry role models, Sri Lankan equivalents of Richard Branson ,Alan Sugar and the like. It could all help us and the country be a place we want it to be

2. Dulan

   March 26th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

   a team of average guys with exceptional values.

   not sure about the “average” part, but Amen to the “exceptional”!

3. sittingnut

   March 26th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

   one is lucky to live in sri lanka at this point of time. opportunities are endless and as long as one tries one’s best, probability of a successful outcome are high, whatever way one measures it by. even the buffalo herd wont be able to stop one. not many ppl realize this.

4. Janin

   March 27th, 2006 at 3:30 am

   I agree certainly there are a lot of opportunities here, but we all need inspiration and a guiding light at some time in our careers. Particularly if we have been fulfilling a position for what we feel is too long a time, or we are running a buisness and could do with some advice from outside the company. It still do’s not take away the need for local role models and mentoring, maybe some form of internet forum where a panel of highly sucessful heads of private commerce could dispense some of their insight and knowledge. If you can find these people in Sri Lanka that would be great, hopefully they will be confident enough to do it.

5. Mat

   March 27th, 2006 at 5:59 am

   Now that’s a job title.

6. Kishore

   March 28th, 2006 at 9:35 am

   Well, I believe there is great potential for development, though for now things are still bleak. One look at this shows how few web designers with a penchant for web standards are found in these parts of the world.

   In India, the Internet is still to reach millions of people, and those who do have the access still do not have a broadband. So businesses still are hesitant to invest in proper websites.

   I also feel we lack proper education in this field, and yes, that’s coming back to the point about guidance again. Events such as @media and SXSW would be so enlightening, but sadly they are out of reach for the not -so-rich web developers from these parts of Asia.