Roundup: for the week ending 13 April 2025
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 7 April to Sunday 13 April 2025.
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Author: Michele Marius
Navigating collaboration in a digitally disconnected world
In today’s fast-paced work culture, collaboration fuels innovation, creativity, and success. But there is a rising concern: tech-savvy youth are entering the workforce with underdeveloped social skills, shaped by years of screen time and remote learning. In this article, we discuss the challenges being experienced and suggest some ways to bridge the gap.
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ICTP 346: DAOs and the surprising parallels between DAOs and regional collaboration efforts
Decentralised autonomous organisations or DAOs are one of the fastest-growing segments of the blockchain space. In this episode we are revisiting an oldie but goodie: our 2022 conversation with Donald O’Brian Porter, the Founder of CaribDAO, who explains, among other things, how DAOs work; the parallels between DAOs and the informal cooperative savings system that has been prevalent in Caribbean countries for decades; how an individual can verify the authenticity of the DAO; and three (3) questions someone should ask before joining a DAO.
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Roundup: for the week ending 6 April 2025
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 31 March to Sunday 6 April 2025.
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Digital RMB vs SWIFT: The emerging tech-backed disruption of cross-border payment settlement
With China’s digital RMB cross-border settlement system now fully connected to the ten ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern nations, questions must be asked about the continued utility of the SWIFT system used by financial institutions worldwide, and we in the Caribbean region could learn from this recent development.
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