Empowering women through innovation and technology, SLT-Mobitel, celebrated International Women’s Day 2023 (IWD) recently, with an event to showcase distinguished Sri Lankan women who have achieved substantially in their careers while positively contributing to the nation’s economy and communities.
The SLT-Mobitel IWD event is part of a series of activities organised by the company this year, as the brand embarks on a journey to ensure the internet offers an equal, accessible, and safe platform for everyone. ’SmartHERNation’ is an initiative to narrow the digital divide between men and women in Sri Lanka, to empower HER, and in turn enable HER to contribute towards a digitally enabled, smarter nation.
The IWD event which took place at One Galle Face - Ocean Avenue Atrium, hosted Chief Operating Officer, DOK Solutions Lanka, Prabodhanie Kumari Wanigasundara, aircraft engineer T. L. A. Lasanthi Chathurika, an accomplished person in the financial and accounting sector Luna Peech and Chairperson and Medical Director of Nature’s Healing Ceylon, Dr Natalie Cooke.
They addressed the gathering and discussed their career journeys and the challenges they faced along the way. They also outlined how they overcame the issues of gender disparity, discrimination and stereotyping in their line of work and importantly what actions taken to successfully break the norms, while emphasising the importance of digital literacy and technological innovations that enable gender equity. The event also included a question and answer session.
Chairman, of SLT Group, Rohan Fernando and senior SLT-Mobitel personnel and invitees were present