# Dinesh Abeywickrama

Dinesh Abeywickrama (born January 1, 1983) is a Sri Lankan IT strategist, researcher and author. He is a Member of British Computer Society and currently working as an executive officer at the Capital Maharaja Organization.In 2015 he developed Sri Lanka's first Citizen journalism mobile App.

## Early life and family

Born to a middle-class family in the suburbs of Colombo he received his school education at Bandaranayake College, Gampaha. Dinesh's father, Sunil Abeywickrama, was a government clerk, while his mother Mala Abeywickrama was a grade one officer at Sri Lanka Insurance.

## Education

Dinesh is a degree holder from the British Computer Society, holds a Master's in Business Management from the Cardiff Metropolitan University. Then he is doing his Ph.D. in Business Management from Management and Science University, Malaysia.

## Research

Dinesh Abeywickrama has made many contributions to the ICT field, publishing several scientific papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, some of which are archived at Oxford University Press. His Green Banking research was awarded at the International Multidisciplinary Research Conference 2016.

### Research articles

* Abeywickarma, D. (2018). "Cloud Analysis by Dinesh Abeywickrama MBCS".
* Abeywickarma, D. (2017). "The Self-Drive Dilemma by Dinesh Abeywickrama MBCS". ITNOW. 59 (4): 18–19. doi:10.1093/itnow/bwx118.
* Abeywickarma, D. (2017). "Before It's Too Late by Dinesh Abeywickrama MBCS". ITNOW. 59 (2): 14–15. doi:10.1093/itnow/bwx037.
* Wijewardene, U. P.; Abeywickrama, D. (2016). "Technology Acceptance of Card-less Cash Withdrawal System; Sri Lankan Experience". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches. News First/Capital Maharaja.
* Wijewardene, U. P.; Abeywickrama, D. (2016). "End-user Acceptance of Online Learning: an Integration of Acceptance Models with User Centered Design (UCD) Implications". International Conference on Advanced Marketing.

### Controversial Calligraphies

* Abeywickrama, D. (2021). "ඔබට හොරෙන් ඔබේ ජංගම දුරකතනයෙන් ඔත්තු බලන පෙගසස් - දිනේෂ් අබේවික්‍රම".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2021). "මහේන්ද්‍ර සිං දෝනි: ටිකට්පත් පරීක්ෂකයකු ලෙස දිවිය ඇරඹි ක්‍රිකට් ලොව විශිෂ්ටතම තරඟ අවසන් කරන්නා".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2020). "ඩියේගෝ මැරඩෝනා (Diego Maradona): 20 වැනි සියවසේ පාපන්දු ක්‍රීඩකයා".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2020). "විකට් ඉන්නකින් සහ ගොල්ෆ් පන්දුවෙන් ඔටුණු පලන් ක්‍රිකට් ලොව රජු".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2020). "සොහොන් පිටියෙන් වැඩ ආරම්භ කළ ලොව විශිෂ්ටතම ටෙස්ට් නායකත්වය".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2020). "විසිවන සියවසේ මහා බුද්ධිමතාගේ අමතක නොවන, 'අමතක සිදුවීම්'".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2020). "ඉන්දීය ක්‍රිකට් ඉතිහාසයේ සුපිරි ක්‍රීඩකයෙක් බිහිකළ වටිනා කාසි 13".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2019). "YouTube SEO: How to Rank YouTube Videos in #1".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2019). "Are you secure with VPN? by Dinesh Abeywickrama & Inoshi Ratnasekera".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2019). "The Morris Worm Turns 30 by Dinesh Abeywickrama & Inoshi Ratnasekera".
* Abeywickarma, D. (2019). "ජීවය යනු ආශ්චර්යාත්මක සංසිද්ධියකි; වික්‍රමසිංහ හොයිල් සිද්ධාන්තය තහවුරු කිරීම – By Dinesh Abeywickrama".
* Abeywickarma, D. (2018). "Cloud Analysis by Dinesh Abeywickrama MBCS".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2018). "The self-drive dilemma The embryonic issue of self-driving cars and its security implications - Ceylontoday.lk".
* Abeywickrama, D. (2017). "Before it's too late - The Sunday Leader".

## Mobile apps

Dinesh has created 02 mobile applications.
* Laksara online radio app
* U-report citizen journalism mobile app