https://ict-pulse.com/2014/11/cyber-cafes-place-caribbean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyber-cafes-place-caribbean&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyber-cafes-place-caribbean Discussing ICT, telecommunications and technology Issues from a Caribbean perspective Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://ict-pulse.com/2014/11/cyber-cafes-place-caribbean/#comment-171473 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:32:13 +0000 http://www.ict-pulse.com/?p=70088#comment-171473 Thanks for raising this issue Michele! I’m glad that you’ve addressed the digital exclusion aspect of the value of cyber cafes.
At the other end of the spectrum though do you feel that there’s a market for more public spaces – bars, hotels, coffee shops etc that encourage people to use their wifi as a way of attracting business?
Having spent two months working remotely from Grenada this summer I was amazed at the number of occasions on which, when asking for the WiFi password, I was met with a look I would have expected to receive if asking for the code to their safe.
Caribbean governments are all talking big about entrepreneurship yet for many micro-entrepreneurs an office space is not a sensible investment of resources.
As such, encouraging the growth of wifi-enabled spaces where co-working can occur might be another direction for the cybercafe… or maybe I’ve just spent too long in Europe!

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