Cluster 15 of 28. Ideas 296 to 320
Software, services and the remote desk
The mechanism
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
The 25 ideas
- 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
- 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
- 298Accounting and bookkeeping outsourcing for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones
- 299Legal paperwork done for foreign law firms, since the common law is the same and the lawyers are here
- 300Typing up doctors' notes and reading scans for foreign hospitals, overnight, to their standard
- 301Architecture and engineering drafting services for firms in the Gulf and Europe
- 302Video editing, animation and game art studios selling to studios abroad
- 303Customer support in English, Tamil and Sinhala for the businesses of Sri Lankans abroad
- 304Data labelling and AI-training services, which is the new garment work and pays better
- 305A coding school with an employer guarantee, paid for by the employer at the end
- 306Open-source contributions turned into consultancies, the WSO2 route, for the next hundred engineers
- 307Cybersecurity monitoring as a service for the small firms of the region
- 308Sinhala and Tamil language technology: keyboards, speech, translation, sold to the platforms that need it
- 309Payment and invoicing tools built for Sri Lankan exporters, in rupees and dollars
- 310Freelancer co-operatives that bid as one firm, so the individual gets the enterprise contract
- 311A verified-skills registry for Sri Lankan developers, with tests and employer reviews, that a client abroad can trust
- 312Video-doctor services connecting Sri Lankan doctors to the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
- 313E-learning content in Sinhala and Tamil for the O-Level and A-Level, sold by subscription
- 314Drone-mapping and survey services for construction and agriculture
- 315Software maintenance for the legacy systems that every bank in the region still runs
- 316App development for the hundred tourism businesses in this list, on a revenue share
- 317A jobs board for returning Sri Lankans, with salaries published
- 318Podcast and audiobook production in three languages, for Sri Lankans abroad and at home
- 319Digital archives for family papers and photographs, a service Sri Lankans abroad will pay for
- 320Sri Lankan-founded startups incorporated abroad with the engineering here, the Virtusa route, deliberately