Roundup: for the week ending 6 June 2021
A roundup of the latest ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region for the period Monday 31 May to Sunday 6 June 2021.
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Tag: Regulation
The politics of Universal Service Funds and the widening digital divide
These days, Universal Access and/or Service Funds are increasingly being used in ways outside of their initial purpose, which it could be argued is widening the digital divide.
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ICTP 155: Saving lives through the Tampere Convention and emergency telecommunications, with Sylvester Cadette of the ITU
Sylvester Cadette, of the International Telecommunication Union, discusses the Tampere Convention, why it is important for more Caribbean countries to accede to that Convention, along with the need for Caribbean countries to have more comprehensive emergency telecommunications plans.
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20 years on, how has the Caribbean region’s telecoms landscape changed?
In 2001, Digicel launched its service in Jamaica, which was also a signal of the change that was beginning to occur in telecoms in the Caribbean. In this article, we look back at some of the ways in which the region’s telecoms landscape has changed in the past 20 years.
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ICTP 151: Navigating disinformation, misinformation and fake news
In this Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Gerard Best and Amit Uttamchandani, the panel discusses disinformation, misinformation and fake news, including: whether the content delivery platforms are the blame; the importance of scepticism; and why regulation is not enough.
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