In our October 2023 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Christelle Vaval, a lawyer in Haiti, and Steven Williams, of Data Privacy and Management Advisory Services in Barbados, the panel discusses: Digital inequality in Caribbean tech entrepreneurship; Trademarks protection in domain names; Are we still underprepared for cyberattacks?
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Freedom House recently published its latest report on freedom online, which noted that global internet freedom continues to decline year on year. We thus highlight some of the signs that our freedom online has been diminishing.
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A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 14 August to Sunday 20 August 2023.
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With the growing importance and visibility that subjects such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity and data protection, have been receiving, Caribbean countries and the region are being challenged to adopt clear, and ideally harmonised, positions, so they can be heard in global Internet Governance conversations. With Nigel Cassimire of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, we discuss, among other things, the internet-related issues and developments that have occurred since 2022 when he was last on the Podcast; the upcoming Caribbean Internet Governance Forum event; and why just one person can make a difference in the Internet Governance space.
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In the first episode of our new series, Tech in Africa, we discuss with the Secretaries General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), John Omo, and of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), Rodney Taylor: the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between their organisations with a view to strengthening the partnership between them; how digital diplomacy works between countries and regions of diverse sizes, economies and challenges; projects or initiatives that could be implemented that leverage the MoU; and outputs or outcomes the ATU and CTU would like achieved by the end of the current term of the MoU.
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