disasters/emergencies | ICT Pulse – The leading technology blog in the Caribbean

From vulnerability to resilience: Addressing key gaps in the Caribbean region’s critical internet infrastructure

Posted by Michele Marius | 26 Sep 2025 | ICT/Tech

The Caribbean region’s digital future hinges on its ability to confront significant challenges in the policy and governance of critical internet infrastructure. This article discusses key governance and regulation issues that have been hindering the resilience of countries’ critical internet infrastructure, and makes recommendations on how the identified issues can be addressed.

3 big takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

Posted by Michele Marius | 26 Jul 2024 | ICT/Tech

The recent CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most sophisticated systems and the ripple effect to all connected systems. In this article, we outline three important lessons businesses can learn from the outage.

ICTP 312: Technology-related risk management, the increasing obsolescence of junior admin roles, technology in disaster preparedness

Posted by Michele Marius | 24 Jul 2024 | Podcast Episodes

In our July 2024 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Tessa Drayton, a Brand Communication and Reputation Management Specialist based in Trinidad and Tobago, and Rodney Browne, the Founder of eCaribbean Limited in Saint Kitts and Nevis, the panel discusses: With increasing tech-related regulation, how can organisations better manage risk? In an age of technology and AI is the Admin Assistant role becoming obsolete? And, the role of technology in disaster preparedness, mitigation and response.

4 critical digital strategies to prepare for natural disasters

Posted by Michele Marius | 5 Jul 2024 | ICT/Tech

Natural disasters can wreak havoc on our physical world, but in today’s digital age, they can also disrupt our personal and professional lives. With the passage of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean region, and the expectation of many more Tropical Storms this year, here are four critical strategies to ramp up your digital preparations.

ICTP 297: Emergency communications, being prepared when disaster strikes and the Tampere Convention, with Sylvester Cadette of the ITU

Posted by Michele Marius | 10 Apr 2024 | Podcast Episodes

Natural disasters and other emergencies are not situations that can be completely avoided, but like insurance, it is good to have access to the requisite support in times of need. As we approach the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season, we thought it opportune to reshare a conversation we had with Sylvester Cadette, of the International Telecommunication Union, in 2021 on the Tampere Convention in which we discussed, among other things: the Tampere Convention, what it is and why more Caribbean countries ought to accede to it; the challenges that are likely to occur when countries have not signed on to the Convention; reasons why countries are not signing on the Convention; plus the need for Caribbean countries to have more comprehensive emergency telecommunications plans in place.

Tag: disasters/emergencies

From vulnerability to resilience: Addressing key gaps in the Caribbean region’s critical internet infrastructure

3 big takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

ICTP 312: Technology-related risk management, the increasing obsolescence of junior admin roles, technology in disaster preparedness

4 critical digital strategies to prepare for natural disasters

ICTP 297: Emergency communications, being prepared when disaster strikes and the Tampere Convention, with Sylvester Cadette of the ITU

Search

Archives