The Hon. Namal Rajapaksa, Attorney-at-Law
Namal Rajapaksa urged the Government to prioritize key pillars of the digital economy, including support for the creators’ economy and young people producing content for online platforms, and to consult them on possible tax relief. He called for digitizing citizen-centric services while protecting the sector, emphasizing that current technologies should be implemented promptly and that policy decisions should prepare Sri Lanka for emerging AI-based systems over the next five years.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I need just one more minute, Hon. Deputy Chairperson.
¶ 02 When you focus on the digital economy, please focus on these pillars. Pay attention to the creators’ economy—young people producing for YouTube and online platforms. Discuss tax reliefs with them. Many of them worked hard in your elections and in ours. Also, protect the industry while digitizing citizen-centric services. Even from the Opposition, I believe the technology available today should be implemented today. Technology available today will be obsolete in five years; the world is moving to AI-based systems. Remember that the decisions you take today must help us move with the world in five years. With that request, I ask everyone to focus on building this digital economy.
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Cite as: The Hon. Namal Rajapaksa, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 March 2025. No. 1743759139093629. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19003