Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 367: Becoming an African tech ecosystem builder for fashion and sustainability, with Pinaman Owusu-Banahene of ADJOAA

ICTP 367: Becoming an African tech ecosystem builder for fashion and sustainability, with Pinaman Owusu-Banahene of ADJOAA

Posted by | 3 Sep 2025 |

We revisit a conversation we had in 2023 with Pinaman Owusu-Banahane, the Founder and CEO of ADJOAA, a curated multi-brand online marketplace specialising in premium and sustainable fashion and lifestyle products made by African designers and Black-owned businesses. Pinaman shares her journey as a young Ghanaian woman who emigrated but found her way back home again, determined to establish a tech business that would uplift fashion designers and artisans across the Continent to improve their livelihood and promote the use of sustainable practices. During our conversation, Pinaman answers questions on, among other things: why she launched ADJOAA and the problem it is trying to solve; the entrepreneurial and start-up space in Ghana; the successes ADJOAA has been able to realise to date; and the challenges of creating an online marketplace that connects Africa to the World

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ICTP 366: UWI Five Islands AI Conference recap, with Dr Curtis Charles

ICTP 366: UWI Five Islands AI Conference recap, with Dr Curtis Charles

Posted by | 27 Aug 2025 |

The recently concluded UWI Five Islands AI Research Conference has become the leading AI event in the Caribbean region. We are once again joined by Dr Curtis Charles, one of the main drivers of the event, for a recap in which he shares, among other things: his overall thoughts on the conference; valuable learnings or takeaways from the event; possible reasons female attendance far exceeded males; and on a separate note, why he has been calling on the region to “creolise AI”.

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ICTP 365: Cyberlibertarianism, ubiquitous video recording devices, and digital colonialism

ICTP 365: Cyberlibertarianism, ubiquitous video recording devices, and digital colonialism

Posted by | 20 Aug 2025 |

In our August 2025 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Financial and Impact Innovator, Digital Economist and Digital Transformation Expert, Telly Valerie Onu, who is based in Saint Kitts and Nevis, and  IT Specialist, Researcher and Digital Analyst, Matthew Cowen, who is based in Martinique, the panel discusses: Cyberlibertarianism; the impact of ubiquitous ready-to-hand video recording devices on our societies, and digital colonialism.

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ICTP 364: Evolving internet governance for an inclusive digital future, with Nigel Cassimire of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union

ICTP 364: Evolving internet governance for an inclusive digital future, with Nigel Cassimire of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union

Posted by | 13 Aug 2025 |

 Nigel Cassimire, the Deputy Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union and Coordinator of the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF), joins us once again to provide an update on the Internet Governance space and the 21st staging of the CIGF, which will be held from 20—22 August 2024 in Varadero, Cuba. During our conversation, we discussed: how Internet Governance and the conversations on IG have been evolving; the most prominent or topical issues in the IG space currently; the likely focus areas of the upcoming CIGF; and whether there are any specific issues the Caribbean region ought to be focusing on.

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ICTP 363: Breaking the stigma of poor customer support in the Caribbean, with Michael Mullings of ChatFlow

ICTP 363: Breaking the stigma of poor customer support in the Caribbean, with Michael Mullings of ChatFlow

Posted by | 6 Aug 2025 | ,

At the forefront of an organisation’s relationship with its customers, the customer service department is not only critical in leading that engagement but also in driving business efficiency and effectiveness. With Michael Mullings, the CEO of ChatFlow, a Software as a Service company providing sentiment-aware customer support, Michael discusses, among other things: how he got from BPO to becoming a tech entrepreneur; the problem ChatFlow is trying to solve; the factors that contribute to customer satisfaction; and the advice he would give his younger self.

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