The IIC and participants at its Annual Conference in Barcelona greatly benefitted from Rohan’s participation. We look forward to future collaborations.
Aslam
Seasons greatings and a very happy new year to LIRNEasia team
Rasheda
Wishing you all the happiness of the season and prosperity for the new year.
Congratulations on wonderful and effective catalysing in 2010. Wish you great success in 2011. Harsha Liyanage
Zulaikha
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Sonam
Wishing everyone in the LIRNEasia a very prosperous new year ahead.May the year of 2011 bring all the happiness to our mother earth.
Arif Sargana
Congratulations and best wishes to LIRNEasia and team for coming year 2011… Hope to get more insight from LIRNEasia research in the coming year…. looking forward to work with you in coming year…
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Tim Kelly
Congratulations on a stellar year and we look forward to working with you in the New Year.
Carol Geldart
The IIC and participants at its Annual Conference in Barcelona greatly benefitted from Rohan’s participation. We look forward to future collaborations.
Aslam
Seasons greatings and a very happy new year to LIRNEasia team
Rasheda
Wishing you all the happiness of the season and prosperity for the new year.
Babar Bhatti
Congratulations to LIRNEAsia team for another year of insightful research. It was a pleasure to meet you in person earlier this year!
Babar
Harsha Liyanage
Congratulations on wonderful and effective catalysing in 2010. Wish you great success in 2011. Harsha Liyanage
Zulaikha
Thank you. Wish you and the LIRNEasia team a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Sonam
Wishing everyone in the LIRNEasia a very prosperous new year ahead.May the year of 2011 bring all the happiness to our mother earth.
Arif Sargana
Congratulations and best wishes to LIRNEasia and team for coming year 2011… Hope to get more insight from LIRNEasia research in the coming year…. looking forward to work with you in coming year…
Shivanshi
Dear all,
May this year bring new joy and cheers to you!!
Sri Lanka at WAIC 2026: Aligning with a More Inclusive Vision for Global AI Governance
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 was held in Shanghai from 17–20 July and brought global attention to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the increasingly important question of who gets to shape the rules governing it. This analysis examines the alignment between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech and Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister of Digital Economy Eng.
LIRNEasia Senior Research Manager Merl Chandana at NewsFirst Sri Lanka’s Face To Face Programme
LIRNEasia Senior Research Manager and Team Lead for Data, Algorithms, and Policy (DAP), Merl Chandana, was interviewed on NewsFirst Sri Lanka’s Face to Face programme on 9 August 2026. The interview focused on the wonders and dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), covering a recent cybersecurity incident where an experimental agentic AI model developed by OpenAI was manipulated to execute multiple attacks on Hugging Face.
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