Regional ministers will be in Barbados for the Digital Summit and ICT Week 2023, which takes place from Monday, October 16, to Friday, October 20, at the Accra Beach Hotel and Spa, Rockley, Christ Church.
ICT Week is being hosted by the Government of Barbados, in collaboration with the Global Government Forum, UK and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU).
The theme is Embracing a Digital Caribbean: Opportunities for Growth and Innovation. ICT Week is aimed at promoting ICT development, discussing emerging trends and facilitating meaningful collaboration between various stakeholders in the Caribbean and internationally.
The 20-member CTU hosts ICT Week annually in one of its member territories. The Week brings together CARICOM ministers with responsibility for information, communication technologies and digital transformation; senior technocrats; the international community, primarily those in development and financial management; regulatory agencies and service providers.
In addition to ministerial and senior technocrats’ meetings, forums are held to sensitise and educate various publics on the advancement of Information and Communication Technologies and to provide opportunities for service providers to showcase their products and for the public to share their views and ideas.
The Digital Summit and ICT Week are important as Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours seek to implement digital solutions and to enhance their digital infrastructure landscape with a view to improving business facilitation and offering better and more efficient services to their publics.
It is envisaged that from the discussions to be held, workable solutions will be generated and possible joint projects will be identified.