2016 will mark a historic year for the Caribbean in the area of Internet Infrastructure Development and Governance. Why would I say that? Well let’s take...
Apple intends to fight the US Government on a demand to breach the iPhone. Here is a discussion on why this issue should be important to the...
Should everyone be able to access digital content at the same price, regardless of location?
by Egbert v. Frankenberg In the age of online communication, service driven industries can be anywhere on the planet. No longer are tangible products the only...
With the euphoria of the New Year behind us, and many of us, in our own way, have adopted the desire to make the most of...
High debt, low growth and limited resilience to stocks are among several significant vulnerabilities facing Caribbean countries. When senior government technocrats come together in Port of Spain this...
I wrote this as a Facebook Post just a couple of weeks ago and got shared so many times, I decided to publish it here to...
I get a lot of emails, calls and have meetings every week with entrepreneurs, investors, mentors across the Caribbean Startup Ecosystem and the Diaspora. There is...
Mobile Messaging is eating the world and specifically WhatsApp Messaging. The smartphone messaging app that Facebook bought for USD$22 billion in 2014, hit 1 billion monthly...
by Byron Gibson Despite current and projected continued global growth in electronic and mobile commerce, as a region with above average mobile penetration (approximately 128%) as...
Increasingly, Caribbean countries are taxing telecoms and ICT. Across the Caribbean, many countries have implemented some kind of tax specific to telecoms. The latest countries where...
1.Digicel Play passes 10,000 subscribers in Jamaica Digicel Play has announced that it has surpassed the 10,000 subscriber mark in Jamaica just a few months after...
By Cathrona Samuel Over the top (OTT) services are fast becoming the medium of choice for communication and entertainment across the Caribbean. Simply put, an OTT application...
In Trinidad and Tobago weeks before the end of 2015, the Central Bank announced that the country was in a recession. Stories such as T&T in...
This week, most major publications reported the death of artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer, Marvin Minsky, who died on 24 January at the age of 88. In...
The Caribbean lags behind in switching from analogue to digital TV here are some reasons. For those who regularly read our ICT/tech news roundup published on...
by Corretta Singer, Chairman, Jamaica Animation Nation Network I am not going to mince words here….it’s not going as great as most people would have hoped....
I’ve written several posts on the well-educated, underemployed Cuban tech community, which is beginning to form an ecosystem through meetups and hackathons. The government has also...
For Caribbean leaders, measuring the value of STEM education isn’t an academic exercise, it’s serious business.
Inscribed at his grave in London is one of Karl Marx’s most powerful statements, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point,...
