It’s a great greeting. Wish you and your team a very good new year full of work loads.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Best wishes and happy new year to you, Sujatha and Indi. May this coming year bring yous life’s best.Thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for all of you.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Sunethra Siriwardena
Wish you, Sujata and the Lirneasia group a great New Year.
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 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.
The economic exclusion faced by people with mobility disabilities in Sri Lanka is substantial. Although Sri Lanka has made genuine investments in this area, yet, for many wheelchair users, the journey to work, school, university or a vocational training center remains difficult.
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sajjadur rahman
It’s a great greeting. Wish you and your team a very good new year full of work loads.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Best wishes and happy new year to you, Sujatha and Indi. May this coming year bring yous life’s best.Thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for all of you.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Sunethra Siriwardena
Wish you, Sujata and the Lirneasia group a great New Year.
Ramchandra Bhatta
Best wishes to Mr. Rohan sir & whole Lirneasia team. Happy New Year 2012.
Muhammad Yousaf
Happy new year to all. May this year bring more hapiness and success to all of us. I miss the excellent time spent in CPR south 6 in Xian.
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.
More Than a Wheelchair: The Case for Mobility That Actually Works
The economic exclusion faced by people with mobility disabilities in Sri Lanka is substantial. Although Sri Lanka has made genuine investments in this area, yet, for many wheelchair users, the journey to work, school, university or a vocational training center remains difficult.
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