Tag: digital literacy

ICTP 302: Data and digital illiteracy, the digital challenge of national data collection, finance, young people and the digital economy

ICTP 302: Data and digital illiteracy, the digital challenge of national data collection, finance, young people and the digital economy

Posted by | 15 May 2024 |

In our May 2024 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Allison James, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and  Certified Information Privacy Professional at KPMG based in Barbados, and Rojane Rose, a Product Owner at MC Systems in Jamaica, the panel discusses: data and digital illiteracy in a world of data privacy and cybersecurity; the digital challenge of national data collection; and technology, the future of finance and empowering young people for the digital economy.

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ICTP 216: Digital skills in the Caribbean region, with Dr Barbara Reynolds and Carlton Samuels

ICTP 216: Digital skills in the Caribbean region, with Dr Barbara Reynolds and Carlton Samuels

Posted by | 10 Aug 2022 |

Ensuring that we have a digitally-skilled population should be a top priority for the Caribbean region, as it is an area that requires comprehensive and long-term planning in order to realise measurable and meaningful improvement. Barbara Reynolds (PhD) and Carlton Samuels, the Co-Chairs of the CARICOM Digital Skills Taskforce discuss, among other things, the work of the Taskforce, some of the challenges that may need to be addressed to advance digital skills development in the region, and why we might less digitally skilled than we think we are!

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