Roundup: for the week ending 30 May 2021
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 24 May to Sunday 30 May 2021.
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Tag: innovation
ICTP 154: Leverage technology to achieve zero hunger, with Bevon Chadel Charles, of Akata Farms
In our fifth instalment on social enterprises that are leveraging ICT, we speak with the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Akata Farms in Grenada, Bevon Chadel Charles. During the course of the conversation, Bevon discusses: the ways in which Akata Farms it is leveraging technology; how and why Akata farms is a social enterprise; and the challenges of being a tech social enterprise in the agriculture sector.
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Roundup: for the week ending 2 May 2021
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 26 April to Sunday 2 May 2021.
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ICTP 147: Becoming the next Silicon Valley and realising 5G
In this Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Melissa Farara and Oshane Bailey, the panel discusses: What will it take for the Caribbean to become the next Silicon Valley? And what should be the starting point for regulators/competition authorities in this digital age?
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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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