Bridging Divides with Inclusive mCommerce: Creating Shared Value (Innovations Case Narrative: Dialog Tradenet)

Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya is the Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata PLC. Dr Wijayasuriya functioned as the Group Chief Operating Officer of Axiata Group Bhd., Asia's 2nd largest telecommunications company, during the period 2008–10. Dr. Wijayasuriya is a past Chairman of GSM Asia Pacific—the regional interest group of the GSM Association representing 22 Asia Pacific member countries. He has also played an active role in Sri Lanka's ICT sector on an honorary basis having been a founding board member of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, the Sri Lanka Institute for Information Technology and more recently NANCO—the Apex body for Nano-Technology development in Sri Lanka.

Michael de Soyza is a Senior Sustainability Consultant at Net Balance. Prior to joining Net Balance Michael served as the Head of Group Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Sri Lanka's largest telecommunications company, Dialog Axiata PLC in Sri Lanka, a subsidiary of Axiata Group, Malaysia. Michael also served as an alternate Director on the Board of the United Nations Global Compact Network Ceylon, the local network of the UNGC in Sri Lanka.