Tag: innovation

Caribbean innovation needs more than just encouragement

We keep telling Caribbean young people to innovate. Learn to code. Build an app. Explore AI. Start a tech business. Solve problems. But what happens after they have the idea? Our latest article looks at the challenges facing Caribbean tech entrepreneurs, and why building a stronger enabling environment needs to be part of the innovation conversation.

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ICTP 416: Achieving global and borderless banking through Sendana, with Monique Powell

For freelancers and small businesses, getting paid globally is often harder than the work itself. All too often, high transfer fees and payout delays undermine businesses and adversely affect their sustainability. With Monique Powell, the Founder and CEO of Sendana, we discuss how this start-up is replacing slow legacy rails and redefining banking for borderless professionals. More specifically, and among other things, we discuss: the problem that Sendana is trying to solve; how much of the challenge of underdeveloped digital payments is technology versus regulation and legacy banking systems; what it means that Sendana is a stablecoin-powered global banking platform; and Monique’s vision for Sendana in the next three to five years.

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ICTP 410: 5G opportunities, AI and competitiveness, and technology and violence trends in the Caribbean

In our July 2026 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Electrical Engineer and University Lecturer Carolyn Ferguson Arnold, who is based in Jamaica, and Andrew Olton, an Information Technology and Project Manager based in Trinidad and Tobago, the panel discusses: The launch of 5G in Jamaica and opportunities for Caribbean cooperation; Beyond Automation: AI and the Future of Caribbean Competitiveness; and AI/technology and trends in violence in the Caribbean.

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