With the vision of Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe to empower the youth in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) age, the Informatics Institute of Computer Studies (IICS) which is now known as the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) was established in 1990. .
In 2002 IICS changed its name to IIT and in 2005 started a collaboration with the University of Westminster (UOW), UK.