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Digitalising a Pradeshiya Sabha: what an integrated council system looks like

Sri Lanka has 341 local authorities — Pradeshiya Sabhas, Urban Councils and Municipal Councils — and between them they are the layer of government most people actually deal with. Rates, trade licences, building approval, a blocked drain, a burial permit, a street lamp that has been out for three weeks. None of it goes to Colombo. All of it goes to the council office.

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Fleet management and GPS tracking in Sri Lanka: owning the data, not renting it

Most fleets in Sri Lanka already have GPS tracking. A box is fitted under the dashboard, a login arrives by email, and from then on somebody can open a portal and see where the vehicles are. That part is solved, and it has been for years.

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Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 in Sri Lanka: which one should you actually buy?

Almost every Sri Lankan business that outgrows a free Gmail address ends up in the same place: Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. The comparison articles you will find are mostly written for American buyers, and they miss the two things that actually decide it here — what you pay in rupees once the dollar and the taxman are done with it, and who picks up the phone when something breaks at 9am Colombo time.

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RustDesk: the self-hosted, open-source alternative to TeamViewer

Remote access is one of those tools nobody thinks about until the invoice arrives. For years the default answer was TeamViewer, and for years that was fine — until the licence costs grew, the commercial-use detection started interrupting legitimate sessions, and the question “where exactly is this session being relayed?” started appearing in security reviews.

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Setting up WireGuard VPN on Windows: a practical guide

WireGuard has quietly become the default answer for site-to-site links and remote staff access. It is small enough to audit, fast enough that people stop noticing it is on, and simple enough that a working tunnel is a dozen lines of configuration rather than an afternoon with a vendor manual.

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Introducing WorkSuite OS: a Debian-based desktop where the business platform is the point

Most business computers run an operating system from one company, business software from another, and a device-management tool from a third. The three know almost nothing about each other. A new starter needs an account in each. A lost laptop means three separate phone calls. And when the line drops, half of it stops working.

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Digitalising your counter: a complete POS guide for a new business

You are opening a shop. You have stock arriving, a counter, and a decision nobody warns you about: how are you going to ring up a sale?

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