Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 263: Learning from Nigeria’s experience in strengthening its tech entrepreneurship ecosystem, with Oswald Osaretin Guobadia

ICTP 263: Learning from Nigeria’s experience in strengthening its tech entrepreneurship ecosystem, with Oswald Osaretin Guobadia

Posted by | 2 Aug 2023 |

With the successful enactment of the Nigeria Startup Act, Nigeria is positioning itself to be not only a hotbed of tech innovation but also the home of tech companies that have a global impact. In our conversation with Oswald Osaretin Guobadia, the Former Senior Special Assistant on Digital Transformation to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we discuss, among other things: Nigeria’s business landscape; the importance of co-creation; why trying to ‘leapfrog’ can be a misguided approach; and what Caribbean countries can learn from the Nigerian experience.

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ICTP 262: Data ethics and the evolving world of privacy and data protection, with Rishi Maharaj

ICTP 262: Data ethics and the evolving world of privacy and data protection, with Rishi Maharaj

Posted by | 26 Jul 2023 |

Privacy and data protection have been gaining traction globally, and even across the Caribbean region. Rishi Maharaj, the Founder and Managing Director of Privicy Advisory Services, joins us to discuss privacy and data protection, along with the emerging concept of ‘data ethics’. Our conversation explores, among other things: the difference between data protection and data ethics; the challenges he has observed as organisations reframe themselves to become more privacy and data protection-centric; and his thoughts on the class action lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleging that it engaged in theft by scraping data and content from internet users.

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ICTP 261: Extracting value from AI and nurturing software development in the Caribbean region

ICTP 261: Extracting value from AI and nurturing software development in the Caribbean region

Posted by | 19 Jul 2023 |

In our July 2023 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Bianca Welds, Digital Innovation Manager of the VM Group in Jamaica, and Chad Fraser, the Founder of Sonover Inc. in Grenada, the panel discusses: Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, how can the Caribbean business and education sectors extract value from these technologies; and thereafter, how can Caribbean countries better nurture software development?

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ICTP 260:  Digital diplomacy and beyond, strengthening the links between Africa and the Caribbean region in telecoms and ICT, with the African Telecommunications Union and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union

ICTP 260:  Digital diplomacy and beyond, strengthening the links between Africa and the Caribbean region in telecoms and ICT, with the African Telecommunications Union and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union

Posted by | 12 Jul 2023 |

In the first episode of our new series, Tech in Africa, we discuss with the Secretaries General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), John Omo, and of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), Rodney Taylor: the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between their organisations with a view to strengthening the partnership between them; how digital diplomacy works between countries and regions of diverse sizes, economies and challenges; projects or initiatives that could be implemented that leverage the MoU; and outputs or outcomes the ATU and CTU would like achieved by the end of the current term of the MoU.

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ICTP 259: 2023 cyber insurance update, with Max Pragnell of Gallagher Insurance Brokers

ICTP 259: 2023 cyber insurance update, with Max Pragnell of Gallagher Insurance Brokers

Posted by | 5 Jul 2023 |

Cyber insurance is no longer as alien as it had been just a few years ago, but the threat landscape is incredibly dynamic thus causing the cyber insurance industry to continually adjust and redefine its posture. Although we spoke with Max Pragnell, of Gallagher Insurance Brokers, just about a year ago, a lot has changed. In this conversation, he discusses, among other things: key changes that have occurred in the cybersecurity and cyber insurance space; how cascading failures (across organisations, subsidiaries or business units, for example) from a single attack are being handled; and “data breach insurance” and what cyber insurance coverage may be available.

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