Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 287: Becoming a robotics powerhouse, with Professor Ricardo Neil of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association

ICTP 287: Becoming a robotics powerhouse, with Professor Ricardo Neil of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association

Posted by | 31 Jan 2024 |

The robotics programme in Saint Kitts and Nevis has been growing from strength to strength since we last spoke to Dr. Ricardo Neil in late 2018 and even has expanded to other Caribbean countries. Now the Chairman and Founder of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association, Professor Neil discusses, among other things: how the Saint Kitts and Nevis robotics space has evolved; Caribbean-wide trends that might be emerging; some of the challenges or opportunities specific to the region that we ought to consider; and how we could better build a thriving robotics ecosystem in the Caribbean.

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ICTP 286: e-Commerce, internet resilience, and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era

ICTP 286: e-Commerce, internet resilience, and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era

Posted by | 24 Jan 2024 |

In our January 2024 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Esmeralda Levens of BearingPoint Caribbean in Curaçao, and Technology Architect and Digital Transformation Consultant , Garfield Gordon, of Jamaica, the panel discusses: e-commerce in the Caribbean; the resilience of our internet infrastructure; and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era.

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ICTP 285: What we should want from the Internet in 2024 and beyond, with Shernon Osepa

ICTP 285: What we should want from the Internet in 2024 and beyond, with Shernon Osepa

Posted by | 17 Jan 2024 |

Is the internet we should want in 2024 different from the internet we wanted in 2014? The internet of 2014 has evolved considerably, but have our expectations of the internet and the ways we could be using it, kept up with the developments that have occurred? With Telecommunications/Internet Operations and Policy Strategist, Shernon Osepa, we discuss the current state of the internet in the Caribbean region and how we could be better leveraging it in 2024 and beyond.

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ICTP 284: Deep tech, impact innovation and how the Caribbean region should be leveraging them, with Telly Valerie Onu

ICTP 284: Deep tech, impact innovation and how the Caribbean region should be leveraging them, with Telly Valerie Onu

Posted by | 10 Jan 2024 |

Deep tech and impact innovation are not terms that are readily discussed in the Caribbean tech start-up space but are considered crucial and strategic if the region wants to level up and truly punch above its weight in tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Telly Valerie Onu, of Quintessence Consulting Inc., shares with us key insights on how Caribbean countries can increase the impact of technology on their societies and how tech entrepreneurs can better access the support they need. Among other things, we discuss: what is meant by the terms, ‘deep tech’, ‘convergence economics’ and ‘impact innovation’ and the connection between them; the challenges that developers and start-ups face generally and when working with embedded deep tech; and how the tech community can leverage the opportunities in AgTech and climate financing.

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ICTP 282:  Building ecosystems to drive and foster trade and e-commerce via a multi-tender digital wallet, Nicholas Rees, of Kanoo Pays

ICTP 282:  Building ecosystems to drive and foster trade and e-commerce via a multi-tender digital wallet, Nicholas Rees, of Kanoo Pays

Posted by | 13 Dec 2023 |

We are continuing our series on Fintech in the Caribbean region with Kanoo Pays, a “Non-Bank Electronic Retail Payment Institution” headquartered in The Bahamas. With Nicholas Rees, Chairman of Kanoo Pays, we discuss: How Kanoo Pays has been able to distinguish itself from other digital wallets; the current state of the fintech industry in The Bahamas; why CBDC adoption has been slow in Caribbean countries that have launched a digital currency; and what does Kanoo want to achieve in the next 3 years?

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