Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 392: Caribbean media at digital crossroads, community networks, and the internet’s impact on the arts and culture

ICTP 392: Caribbean media at digital crossroads, community networks, and the internet’s impact on the arts and culture

Posted by | 25 Mar 2026 |

In our March 2026 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Max Larson Henry, Network Engineer and Founder of the tech company, Transversal, which is based in the United States and Haiti, and Liselle Yorke, a Communications Strategist based in the United States but originally from Trinidad and Tobago, the panel discusses:  What’s the news? Caribbean media at digital crossroads; Internet community networks: should they be just a stopgap measure? And the internet’s impact on the arts and culture.

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ICTP 391: Using AI and VR technologies to protect our Caribbean culture and legacy, with Amanda Zilla of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre

ICTP 391: Using AI and VR technologies to protect our Caribbean culture and legacy, with Amanda Zilla of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre

Posted by | 18 Mar 2026 |

As a cultural powerhouse, the Caribbean region has the potential to become a digital leader in leveraging AI and VR technologies to preserve the region’s unique identity, modernise its education systems, and ensure that digital inclusion reaches every citizen. Amanda Zilla, the Principal Investigator of the dream LAB, within the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre (AIIC), joins us to discuss, among other things, the ways in which AI and VR can be leveraged in areas such as the arts, culture, and education; how VR and AI can help Caribbean people to better engage with their own history; how the dream LAB is navigating thorny issues such as copyright and cultural appropriation; and how AI-enhanced VR experiences help countries further develop their tourism product beyond sea and sand.

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ICTP 390: Caribbean women in data science on AI, careers, and the future of work

ICTP 390: Caribbean women in data science on AI, careers, and the future of work

Posted by | 11 Mar 2026 |

As organisations and societies become increasingly data-driven, data science has emerged as one of the most influential disciplines shaping decision-making, innovation and economic opportunity. With data scientists, Dr Letetia Addison, Educator, Statistician, and Researcher at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Labour Market Specialist, Tanisha Ash, and Entrepreneur and Agri-tech specialist, Lesley-Ann Jurawan, we discuss, among the state of data science in the Caribbean region, including: student enrolment in data-science-related academic programmes and the proportion of women enrolled in those programmes; how we should be thinking of data science within the context of AI, and vice versa; AI adoption in the public and private sectors; and how individuals should be positioning themselves to establish a career in data science.

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ICTP 389: Data embassies and rethinking sovereignty in the digital age, with Demetris Herakleous of ECLAC

ICTP 389: Data embassies and rethinking sovereignty in the digital age, with Demetris Herakleous of ECLAC

Posted by | 4 Mar 2026 |

Consistent with the growing discussion of digital sovereignty in the Caribbean region and worldwide, greater attention is being placed on the establishment of data embassies. In response, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)published a study on the subject. We chat with Demetris Herakleous, an Associate Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC, on the prospect of Caribbean countries establishing a data embassy, including: the differences between a data embassy and a data centre; the possibility of a regional data embassy being established; and some of the security considerations, especially in light of data sovereignty concerns.

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ICTP 388: ICANN and its 2026—2030 strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean, with Rodrigo de la Parra

ICTP 388: ICANN and its 2026—2030 strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean, with Rodrigo de la Parra

Posted by | 25 Feb 2026 |

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a central pillar of the global internet governance ecosystem. In the latter half of 2025, consultations were held with the Latin American and Caribbean region on the strategic plan ICANN hopes to implement in the region for the period 2026 to 2030. Rodrigo de la Parra, ICANN’s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean and Managing Director of the LAC Regional Office, joins us to discuss, among other things: ICANN’s strategic plan for Latin America and the Caribbean and some of the considerations underpinning the proposed plan; the differences in how Latin America and how the Caribbean region approach Internet Governance-related issues and engage with ICANN; the recently held “ICANN Near You” event in Guyana; and how someone interested in getting more involved with ICANN could do so.

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