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This week we thought of talking about a highly competitive space in the tech industry. Streaming.

The anchor butter fiasco was a case of horrible design. In this episode, we take a look at why design should be taken seriously and how to avoid obvious slip-ups.

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Design Symposium: https://www.readme.lk/design-symposium/
dbrand on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbrand
Dialog App Challenge: https://www.readme.lk/tech-school-kids-dialog-app-challenge/
The Bad Take: https://anchor.fm/the-bad-take

So we recently met up with Ali Haris and his team behind Maldives' SparkHub initiative. Here's how the conversation went.

uki is a full scholarship based Accelerator program for Coding in Jaffna. A joint initiative by Yarl IT Hub and SERVE Foundation, uki is one that is aimed at those who don’t have access to university education or any other form of vocational education. Two years after our initial coverage we wanted to know what uki has been upto.

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, or better known as ICTA, has a host of projects in the pipeline with each project targeting a different segment of the IT industry in Sri Lanka. In case you're not sure what these are exactly, have a listen to this one.

ImagineIF: https://www.readme.lk/imagineif-colombo-uni/

One of the panel discussions at Disrupt Asia 2018 titled, "Strategy and Policy: Will It Change Anything?" highlighted on the impact of strategy and policy in the IT industry. Part of the discussion brought up was the recently published Strategy and Policy document. Here's what Mangala Karunaratne from Calcey Technologies had to share with us.