Roundup: for the week ending 13 September 2026
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday, 7 September to Sunday, 13 September 2026.
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Author: Michele Marius
Governance reframed: Navigating the promises and vulnerabilities of digital parliaments
As regional parliaments shift toward paperless chambers, AI tools, and digital civic portals, a critical question emerges: How do we modernise governance without eroding democratic values whilst also leveraging a digital ecosystem built on trust, transparency, and security? We highlight some of the inherent risks of parliamentary digitisation, but also the considerable benefits when the digital transformation process is successfully managed and implemented.
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ICTP 416: Achieving global and borderless banking through Sendana, with Monique Powell
For freelancers and small businesses, getting paid globally is often harder than the work itself. All too often, high transfer fees and payout delays undermine businesses and adversely affect their sustainability. With Monique Powell, the Founder and CEO of Sendana, we discuss how this start-up is replacing slow legacy rails and redefining banking for borderless professionals. More specifically, and among other things, we discuss: the problem that Sendana is trying to solve; how much of the challenge of underdeveloped digital payments is technology versus regulation and legacy banking systems; what it means that Sendana is a stablecoin-powered global banking platform; and Monique’s vision for Sendana in the next three to five years.
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Roundup: for the week ending 6 September 2026
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday, 31 August to Sunday, 6 September 2026.
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The migration trap and how tech marketing weaponises FOMO
Marketers frame adoption as binary: you are either “moving into the future” or “becoming obsolete”, resulting in many organisations, in particular, ripping out battle-tested, nuanced setups in favour of the flashy, new solution. Unfortunately, the result can be chaos: systems and operations that break down and are not resilient. We discuss.
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