Sri Lanka, June 23 -- The government aims for a multi-cloud hybrid system, integrating public and resident cloud infrastructures to drive the digital economy, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy told the Grounded Sovereign Cloud Symposium 2026 held in Colombo on June 17.

Sri Lanka aspires a 5x growth in its digital economy from around USD 3 to 4 billion today to USD 15 billion by 2030. More importantly, it means the digital economic component of the economy, which is 3 to 4 percent today, will increase to around 12 percent by 2030, he said.

Dr Wijayasuruya said although Sri Lanka has been ahead of the region and wider APAC community in certain areas of digital transformation, the country faced challe...