Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 174: Online education for persons with learning impairments and using technology to build new connections and opportunities for Caribbean youth

ICTP 174: Online education for persons with learning impairments and using technology to build new connections and opportunities for Caribbean youth

Posted by | 29 Sep 2021 |

September 2021 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Carolyn Ferguson and Liselle Yorke, the panel discusses: Using technology to enhance accessibility to online education for persons with learning impairments, for discussion; and Expanding horizons: how technology is building new connections and opportunities for Caribbean youth.

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ICTP 173: Leveraging people, process and technology to grow a business and to start a new one, with Melarka Williams

ICTP 173: Leveraging people, process and technology to grow a business and to start a new one, with Melarka Williams

Posted by | 22 Sep 2021 | ,

Launching or growing a business is challenging at the best of times, but during a pandemic, it may be unfathomable. Melarka Williams, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ingenuity Technologies and TheHive Freelancing, discusses his entrepreneurial journey to date, including: how Ingenuity Technologies has fared over the past 18 months; why he decided to launch a new venture in the middle of the pandemic; and how he is able to manage two very distinct tech businesses.

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ICTP 171: Fostering innovation among our youth to swing for the fences, with Safiya Olugbala, of WE CODE CARIBBEAN

ICTP 171: Fostering innovation among our youth to swing for the fences, with Safiya Olugbala, of WE CODE CARIBBEAN

Posted by | 8 Sep 2021 |

The technology-based social enterprise, WE CODE CARIBBEAN, seeks to give Caribbean youth the requisite tools to be absolutely disruptive. In our conversation with WE CODE CARIBBEAN’s Founder and CEO, Safiya Olugbala, she discusses: her journey to start WE CODE CARIBBEAN; the ways in which the organisation is leveraging technology; how as an NGO WE CODE CARIBBEAN is addressing profitability/sustainability; and what she hopes the organisation will achieve.

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ICTP 170: Telecoms response and recovery in Haiti, post the 2021 earthquake

ICTP 170: Telecoms response and recovery in Haiti, post the 2021 earthquake

Posted by | 1 Sep 2021 |

In mid-August, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake, which was quickly followed by a tropical depression. Buildings and infrastructure, including that for telecoms, were severely damaged, but are critical to support relief efforts. Gregory Domond, an ICT Consultant based in Haiti, and Sylvester Cadette, the Programme Officer of the ITU Area Office for the Caribbean, discuss the state of telecoms in Haiti from a local and international perspective.

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