Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley noted that the allocation to the Ministry of Education in the budget, 13 per cent, was the largest in the 2022-2023 budget, a sum of $7.45 billion.
A Pew Research Centre study has shown that more than 60 per cent of young people, mostly teenagers, apply very specific filters to control who can see their information.
Trinidad and Tobago is first among populations covered by 3G mobile networks with a perfect score of 100.
“Creating a digital nation” is listed as priority area seven out of nine, but there’s little in next year’s PSIP that establishes any priorities for the new Digital Transformation Ministry.
“I’m an eternal optimist. Let us acknowledge that there have been lots of positive changes. The government now has a whole ministry dedicated to digital transformation.” – Lorcan Camps
There was little expectation of job satisfaction in the public service, and advancement was measured in decades but the civil service was a lifelong career.
This loan adds to the efforts of the government of Trinidad and Tobago to close the digital divide, promote the information society and the expansion of the digital ecosystem in the country.
A key element of the strategy focuses on using digitalization to bolster not only the public sector, and public sector services, but to empower the private sector and individual citizens of Trinidad and Tobago
“We don’t focus enough on process re-engineering and process reform, and those are the elements that are necessary before we can start to talk about digitalization.” – Christie-Anne Morris-Alleyne
For organisations that have not taken the necessary precautions to protect their information, they remain vulnerable to catastrophic assaults.
“I would highly recommend setting up a high level combined Digital Transformation and Open Source steering group to look at strategic issues.” – Saranjit Arora
The Guardian would probably have kept right on using those aging Microtek word processors for the rest of the decade, despite their constant glitching.
The Digital Transformation ministry will work more extensively with established local developer resources and create a framework that makes better use of home-grown talent.
What became of the money budgeted for e-government and FinTech over the last three years? Are we starting everything over because there’s now a digital transformation ministry?
“We look forward to working closely with and further strengthening the cooperation and partnership between our company and Government.” – Simone Martin-Sulgan
