“When I first came out of university a million years ago, everybody was like, why build something here? Just take what’s in Europe, lift and shift. That has been the approach of most of the organizations in the Caribbean.”
This partnership with AMCHAM T&T is a timely and important collaboration that represents a deliberate shift from being consumers of technology to becoming creators of responsible, indigenous AI solutions.
These are potentially dangerous skills to acquire and nobody should be blind to the way these techniques are used to trigger social change beyond a choice of deodorant.
Students collaborated on group projects creating captivating websites and petitions in support of several critical SDGs that included Zero Hunger, Life Below Water, Good Health and Well-Being, Clean Water and Sanitation, Life On Land, Affordable and Clean Energy, and No Poverty
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.
The production cutover was scheduled over a 24-hour maintenance window, but was completed in a third of that time—in only eight hours.”
Your answers will identify smart technologies that should be used in the Caribbean to make our lives safer during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Access via bmobile devices is available immediately and zero-rating will be available on Digicel devices from April 17, 2020. The concession will continue to be available until July 10, 2020.
The response from most of the schools operating under the management of the Ministry of Education has been desultory at best. They weren’t ready. Nobody was ready.
Huawei will fly the six UWI students with the highest scores to Panama in April to compete in teams in the regional final against students from all Latin American countries
Huawei T&T’s CEO, Jeff Jin, believes the new lab will open up brand new possibilities for T&T’s engineering and IT students to create, design and problem solve.
“There needs to be more collaboration between the private sector, the public sector and universities to offer more opportunities like this in the ICT sector.” – Valene Rampersad.
“Hackathons are a popular new forum for team collaboration and new-age creativity applied to software development,” said Esther Le Gendre, Chairman, iGovTT.
Above: Maxine Williams, Facebook’s Global Director of Diversity, delivers a Distinguished Open Lecture at the St Augustine campus last week….
Students at the TechAgri Expo 2017. Photo by J Morris/UWIFFA via Flickr. Adapted and expanded by the author from a…
