Category: ICT/Tech

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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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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Back to monopoly? BTL–SMART and the future of Caribbean telecoms

The Belize Telemedia Limited’s board has approved an $80 million deal to acquire Speednet in Belize, but the private sector, unions and civil society are raising red flags over market competition and consumer pricing. Why are such mergers happening, and what does it mean when smaller countries lose key competitors in the mobile and broadband internet markets?  We explore the Belize deal and its broader implications for Caribbean regional regulation.

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