We are pleased to announce that this year’s International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer2014) will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 10th to 14th December 2014. ICTer2014 is co-sponsored by IEEE Sri Lanka Section and is the successor to the seminal International Information Technology Conference (IITC) held in Sri Lanka since 1998. It provides an ideal platform to the researchers and practitioners alike to showcase research and development activities carried out in ICT and CS domains. Proceedings of ICTer2014 will be published in both book and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issue of ICTer Journal (www.icter.org/journal). And from 2012, ICTer has been indexed by Thomson Reuters and the only Sri Lankan academic conference to have had the opportunity be indexed by Thomson Reuters. The main conference will take place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th December 2014 at BMICH, Colombo. In addition to the presentation of selected papers, several keynote addresses by leading personalities in the IT world will be made. The conference will also include pre-conference (10th) and post-conference (13th) high quality tutorials/workshops in areas of current interest in Information and Communication Technology. Among the social activities is a conference tour organized on 14th December.