ICT ready country<\/a> in the Americas, behind the US and Canada. This ranking will no doubt improve when the Network Readiness Index assessment is conducted for 2011\/2012, thanks to this simple but ambitious project.<\/p>\n…………………………<\/p>\n
Acknowledgement: ICT Pulse would to thank Ms. Melanie Jones, BEF Board Member and Pillar Champion for <\/em>11.11.11 ON \u2013 Wi-Fi Barbados<\/em>, and Mr. Chris Harper, the organisation\u2019s Programme Manager, for providing much needed insight on the Wi-Fi project, which has been used to prepare this article.<\/em><\/p>\n_______________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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