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The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) has embarked on an initiative designed to educate, raise public awareness and establish strategic programmes to foster innovative and beneficial use of ICT in Caribbean countries for national and regional development. The initiative, the Caribbean ICT Roadshow, integrates ICT capacity building with meaningful activities which will deliver tangible benefits to the citizens of the region and lay a foundation on which knowledge-based societies and economies may be built. The theme for the Roadshow is: Harnessing the Power of Innovation - the Engine for ICT-Enabled Caribbean Development
The Caribbean ICT Roadshow was officially launched in July 2009 in Grenada. From August 2009 to June 2010, the Roadshow visited the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Curacao, the Republic of Suriname, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands and St. Lucia.
While each Roadshow was customised to reflect the special circumstances of the countries visited, the following core elements were addressed throughout the region:
- ICT capacity building
- ICT innovation and entrepreneurship
- Building ICT policy and regulatory capacity
- Network Operators’ Issues
- Fostering local content development,
- Encouraging collaborative work in ICT
- Fostering responsible use and ICT innovation in Youth
The CTU works collaboratively with its members, telecommunication operators, technology companies, regional and international organizations, civil society and ICT stakeholders to deliver a programme designed to educate and demonstrate the transformative power of ICT Innovation.
The Roadshow will culminate in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2010 with an ICT Symposium at which a comprehensive report highlighting recommendations for fostering ICT innovation and development will be presented and ICT innovators will be recognised.
Click here for an overview of the 2009 and 2010 Roadshows that have taken place to date.
Click here to see where the Caribbean ICT Roadshow will visit next.
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