Above: Antigua (Photo: ABDT)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

For a few days this week, Antigua’s Multipurpose Cultural and Exhibition Centre has been converted into a digital village at the seventh annual ICTFEST, a forum on information and communication technology.

The programme consists of two days of interactive exhibitions, technology competitions and seminars, aimed at creating a platform for students, academics and businesses to unite in a digital community.

As part of the events, mobile network APUA is hosting a seminar on the production of digital apps.

That particular programme is a joint offering of the Antigua and Barbuda Investment Authority and the Bright Path Foundation.

ABIA Executive Development Director Jacqueline Yearwood said the seminar was “an important component of ABIA’s thrust to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs and spawn homegrown mobile applications that are developed by and for [the] Caribbean audience. It is a deliberate movement from a consumer to producer paradigm.”