 The university pioneered research and training collaborations between academia, industry, local government and internationally including Stockholm University, Sweden and University of Western Sydney, Australia.The University of Colombo School of Computing annually conducts the International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) which is the successor to the seminal International Information Technology Conference (IITC) held in Sri Lanka since 1998.It provides a platform to the researchers and practitioners alike to showcase research and development activities carried out in Computer Science and Information Communication Technology domains.