BCS Sri Lanka Section
Encyclopedia
The BCS Sri Lanka Section (BCSSL) is a professional body
and learned society
in the field of Computering
and Information Technology
in Sri Lanka
. It was established in 1996, incorporating local members of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT
as the first overseas branch of BCS.
The section has over 2000 professional members (MBCS) and about 2,300 student members. Around 322 members are Chartered Information Technology Practitioners (CITP)s. BCSSL counts more than 24 Fellow Members (FBCS) amongst its membership. The Parent body, BCS is the industry body for IT professionals and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology (IT). The institute organizes the National Best Quality Software Awards
annually as benchmark industry awards.
Professional body
A professional association is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and the public interest.The roles of these professional associations have been variously defined: "A group of people in a...
and learned society
Learned society
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...
in the field of Computering
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
and Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
. It was established in 1996, incorporating local members of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
as the first overseas branch of BCS.
The section has over 2000 professional members (MBCS) and about 2,300 student members. Around 322 members are Chartered Information Technology Practitioners (CITP)s. BCSSL counts more than 24 Fellow Members (FBCS) amongst its membership. The Parent body, BCS is the industry body for IT professionals and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology (IT). The institute organizes the National Best Quality Software Awards
National Best Quality Software Awards
The National Best Quality Software Awards also known as NBQSA, is the national awards competition for best software products in Sri Lanka organized by the Sri Lanka Section of the BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT. The NBQSA competition is open to organizations, groups and individuals in Sri Lanka...
annually as benchmark industry awards.
Past Chairpersons
incomplete- Sujeewa Dissanayake, MBCSMBCSMBCS can refer to:*Member of the British Computer Society - denoting membership at a professional level* multi-byte character set - a class of character encodings in computing...
, CITPCITP- Professional certifications :* Clinical Investigators Training Program - a program which funds young investigators working in clinical research—usually at the post-doctoral fellow level—to run a research project under the direction of a Principal Investigator; the funding is in the form of salary...
(2008) - Prof Gihan WikramanayakeGihan WikramanayakeProfessor Gihan Nilendra Wikramanayake, FBCS, CITP, MIEEE , MCS, MNASSL is a Sri Lankan academic. He is a Professor and Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing , formerly Head of the Department of Information Systems Engineering.Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo,...
, FBCSFBCSFBCS is an abbreviation for Fellow of the British Computer Society . This is the most senior professional grade in the BCS. It is available to applicants with a minimum of five years of Information Technology experience in a senior IT position or who have an established eminent or authoritative...
, CITPCITP- Professional certifications :* Clinical Investigators Training Program - a program which funds young investigators working in clinical research—usually at the post-doctoral fellow level—to run a research project under the direction of a Principal Investigator; the funding is in the form of salary...
(2007/2005) - Dr Dileepa de Silva, FBCSFBCSFBCS is an abbreviation for Fellow of the British Computer Society . This is the most senior professional grade in the BCS. It is available to applicants with a minimum of five years of Information Technology experience in a senior IT position or who have an established eminent or authoritative...
, FCMI, CITPCITP- Professional certifications :* Clinical Investigators Training Program - a program which funds young investigators working in clinical research—usually at the post-doctoral fellow level—to run a research project under the direction of a Principal Investigator; the funding is in the form of salary...
(2006) - Jayantha de Silva, FBCSFBCSFBCS is an abbreviation for Fellow of the British Computer Society . This is the most senior professional grade in the BCS. It is available to applicants with a minimum of five years of Information Technology experience in a senior IT position or who have an established eminent or authoritative...
, CITPCITP- Professional certifications :* Clinical Investigators Training Program - a program which funds young investigators working in clinical research—usually at the post-doctoral fellow level—to run a research project under the direction of a Principal Investigator; the funding is in the form of salary...
(2003) - Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe, FBCSFBCSFBCS is an abbreviation for Fellow of the British Computer Society . This is the most senior professional grade in the BCS. It is available to applicants with a minimum of five years of Information Technology experience in a senior IT position or who have an established eminent or authoritative...
, FCMI (1996)