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Data Privacy in the Caribbean: What’s Next
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor Data privacy will be among the items topping the agenda at an upcoming Caribbean Internet Governance Forum to be held by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in Suriname this month. The meeting is part of […]
A Climate of Change for Caribbean Internet
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor Spring storms with winter qualities clobbered North America this week, threatening Canada with slow-moving storms, and pounding the United States with near-record snowfall in the midwest, low temperatures in the south and tornadoes further east. […]
Climate and the Future of Caribbean Internet
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor The threat of climate-driven natural disaster and the struggle to keep pace with the global digital economy are among the key factors driving the need for Caribbean Internet stakeholders to strengthen the resilience of the […]
A Caribbean Internet Forum in Miami
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor An upcoming gathering of Internet experts could change the conversation around cyber security, network autonomy and network resilience in the Caribbean. On April 19, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) will convene a special […]
Making Caribbean Internet Climate Resilient
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor A new initiative to make Caribbean Internet infrastructure less vulnerable to the impact of climate change and natural disasters is gaining momentum across the region. Several Internet organisations recently held talks in Puerto Rico to […]
Building an Internet Economy in the Caribbean
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor PORT OF SPAIN — A group of global and regional technology organizations are partnering to help Caribbean professionals get more out of the Internet economy. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) spearheaded the […]
Seeking An Edge, Caribbean Firms Turn to Internet Tech
By GERARD BEST CJ Contributor BRIDGETOWN, Barbados—As clouds of uncertainty loom over the global economy, it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Caribbean companies. But these days, a different kind of cloud is creating fresh opportunities for regional businesses. For […]
Barbados to Host Caribbean Tech Event
The thirteenth regional meeting of the Caribbean Network Operators Group, or CaribNOG, will take place in Barbados from April 18 to 19, 2017. CaribNOG is the region’s first volunteer-based community of network engineers, computer security experts and tech aficionados. “At […]
Building the Caribbean Internet Economy
In the Caribbean, change is in the air. In fact, it’s in the cloud. By Gerard Best CJ Contributor There’s a new conversation among the community of technology experts who spearhead Caribbean Internet development, and the buzz is no longer […]
Boosting Caribbean Tech Development
A global Internet giant is partnering with a Caribbean-based group to advance regional technology development. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is joining forces with the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) to build the capacity of the […]
The Guardians of the Caribbean Internet
PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten—Even with its minor geographical footprint, the Caribbean has a major appetite for the Internet. More and more, Caribbean citizens are reflexively heading online to do their everyday essentials. In order to keep pace with that digital predilection, […]
The Caribbean’s Digital Switchover – And What It Means
What the switch means By Gerard Best CJ Contributor A shift from analog to digital television broadcast in the Caribbean could be a big boost for local content creators looking to produce and distribute original programs. Free, analog, over-the-air television […]
Making the Most of Caribbean Spectrum
A major resource for Caribbean telecom By Gerard Best CJ Contributor PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad—Caribbean countries have found an interesting way to extract value from one invisible shared commodity. The valuable resource is known to telecommunication industry insiders as spectrum. […]
The Caribbean Response to Brexit
Caribbean Leaders Weigh-in on Brexit By Marcia Forbes, Ph.D. CJ Contributor Brexit is not Cricket Business people often have a different point of view from academics; however, at the UWI forum regarding Brexit and its implications for the Caribbean, everyone […]
Brexit and the Caribbean
Examining the Brexit’s impact on the Caribbean By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Is Britain Working to Unbalance Europe? It is all moving so fast in the United Kingdom one can barely keep up. Many adjusted their schedules so as […]
In Curaçao, Promoting Caribbean Internet Development
Major Internet society to hold third peering form in the Caribbean By Gerard Best CJ Contributor WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao—The third Caribbean Peering and Interconnection Forum will be on June 7, 2017 and the Internet community is already looking forward to it. […]
Caribbean Tech Community Gathers in Montego Bay
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor MONTEGO BAY—Anyone interested in the development of the Internet in Caribbean may have already heard of CaribNOG, the Caribbean Network Operators Group. Over the past decade, this volunteer-based community of computer engineers has grown into a formidable influencer in […]
A Focus on Caribbean Broadband
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor CASTRIES — The Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) is this week holding a regional workshop on broadband Internet development, in partnership with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU). The workshop is being held at the Golden […]
Talking Caribbean Tech in Belize
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor A full line-up of international tech experts will gather in Belize from Nov. 2 to 6, when the capital city plays host to a historic regional ICT development conference. Among the expert facilitators will be Bevil Wooding, a Founder and a Director of the […]
How Internet Exchange Points Can Boost the Caribbean Economy
By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Caribbean nations must strengthen their Internet infrastructure in order to take full advantage of the global digital economy. This was the message was expressed by Mark Vanterpool, Vice President of Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), at […]
How Open Data Can Help Caribbean Development
A push for transparency By Gerard Best CJ Contributor Across the Caribbean, governments are moving their essential services to digital platforms and generating more data than ever. Yet much valuable public information remains locked away in proprietary systems, beyond the […]
Netflix, Google Joining Caribbean Internet Providers for Historic Meeting
Above: Barbados (CJ Photo) By Gerard Best CJ Contributor If you live in the Caribbean, you don’t need to be a computer expert to know that the region’s Internet services need to improve. If your connection falters so often that […]
What a Major Telecom Merger Means for the Caribbean
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Mergers the new Mantra Implications of the merger between Cable & Wireless and Columbus Communications are fraught with many nuances that only the most astute and those with a keen understanding of where the […]
Why This is the Biggest Challenge for Caribbean Youth (And Why There’s Hope)
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor This is Part 2 of excerpts from ‘Caribbean Youth and Unemployment’ prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank’s ‘XIV Reunion BID – Sociedad Civil’ hosted in Nicaragua during late 2014. Challenges of Joblessness Rebelliousness Online […]
Caribbean Youth and Unemployment
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor As a member of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Civil Society Consultative Committee I was invited to present at the ‘XIV Reunion BID – Sociedad Civil’ in Nicaragua late 2014. The following are excerpts from […]
Creating Caribbean Futures
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor Many Caribbean livelihoods are made and lost around seasonal fluctuations in foreigners’ travel. For much of the region, tourism, an all-too-inefficient form of intraregional human traffic, is economic lifeblood. But for one group of Caribbean […]
Caribbean Connectivity: CARCIP Urges Greater Regional Innovation
Above; St Vincent (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Three Eastern Caribbean countries are benefitting from an infrastructure development thrust that could usher in a new era of technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship for the region. The initiative is part […]
In St Lucia, Harnessing the Creativity of the Caribbean Region
Above: St Lucia By Gerard Best CJ Contributor PORT OF SPAIN — The Caribbean region, known for the creativity of its people, is now making decisive moves to harness that innate resourcefulness. Next week, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) will hold the first […]
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