Roundup: for the week ending 21 March 2021
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday...
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Tag: entrepreneurship
ICTP 145: Being inspired by purpose over profit, with Eldon Marks of Nexus Hub
Locally-owned social enterprises are not common in the Caribbean; and ICT-based ones are rarer. Tech entrepreneur Eldon Marks of the social enterprise, Nexus Hub, gives us an update on the business since our last conversation in 2019, and why tech entrepreneurs ought to be more social impact-focussed.
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ICTP 142: Banj, changing the story of Haiti’s tech start-up space, with Marc Alain Boucicault
Banj, a co-working space and Google powered accelerator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is the second tech-based business we are focussing on in our series on technology-based social enterprises. We chat with company Founder, Marc Alain Boucicault, about: what drove him to set up Banj; the social impact Banj is having in Haiti; the big dreams he has for Banj and for Haiti; and the advice you would give tech start-ups that also want to be social impact-focussed.
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ICTP 140: How a transportation data business is successfully navigating the pandemic, with Khalil Bryan
In this episode we check back in with one of the tech businesses we featured in 2018: Caribbean Transit Solutions, a location and logistics-based services, headquartered in Barbados. Co-Founder, Khalil Bryan, gives us an update on the state of the company and on his entrepreneurial journey to date.
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ICTP 138: Leveraging technology to provide micro investment to farmers, with Varun Baker of Farm Credibly
We are launching a new theme for 2021: social impact-focussed tech businesses. In this our first...
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