MOBILE –The Government of Jamaica and the World Bank are collaborating to launch a mobile applications (apps) competition. Julian Robinson, Minister of State in the Ministry...
STARTUPS – So what do you get when you take the best or most popular features of FourSquare, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Groupon, Facebook, Online Yellow Pages and...
TECH NEWS – The $32 million e-government project which is being piloted and implemented by the government of Guyana is on track and is scheduled to...
TECH NEWS – According to its own Facebook Page announcement, The Jamaica Bobsleigh Team has garnered a significant amount of money in just over 48 hours...
TECH NEWS -Information and Communication Technology is the new frontier for regional integration in the Caribbean, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said in a speech...
TECH NEWS – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell yesterday urged regional countries to make good use of the information, communication and technology (ICT) sector, saying...
SOCIAL NEWS – Jamaicans in the Convention Centre, Atlanta 2011, wanted to get on with the dance. It was the annual Independence Ball hosted by the...
TECH NEWS – For some, accepting a virtual unregulated currency as payment may seem like a leap into the unknown. Sir Richard Branson and Overstock.com made...
SOCIAL NEWS – According to Facebook.Com’s advertising control panel, there are currently 760,000 Facebook users in Jamaica, a blog post done by GetConnectiD broke out the...
NEWS -Trinidad and Tobago will host the 2014 edition of the South School on Internet Governance (SSIG), an annual programme aimed at raising a generation of...
TECH NEWS – TRINIDAD and Tobago (TT), the nation which invented the only new acoustic instrument of the 20th Century, the steel- pan, cannot be a...
TECH NEWS – The tech/ICT issues that made the headlines or had us talking in 2013 were diverse and interesting: from tablets in schools, to the...
TECH NEWS- The Jamaica government says it wants the entire population to have access to the Internet and has appealed to local providers to ensure that...
STARTUPS- EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Wayne Dawkins is already taking the steps to realise his dreams of becoming one of Jamaica’s tech entrepreneurs. The Wolmer’s Boys’ sixth former heeded...
T&T is one step closer to establishing its own Internet Exchange Point (IXP). The board of the T&T Internet Exchange (TTIX), the non-profit company that will...
There are many positive advances on the Caribbean technology scene, but at times it seems there is an equal amount of confusion. Many people often ask,...
WORK is far advanced on the development of a Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) software which is expected to better help the police apprehend praedial thieves....
M.A.D.E. was selected as the winner for the Caribbean in the VentureOut Challenge on Nov. 1, 2013. Launched by the World Bank’s infoDev and CRDF Global,...
Startup Weekend Jamaica Hashtag #swja generates just under 1,000,000 Social Media impressions across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram according to hashtack tracking service Keyhole.co. SWJA was staged...
So after 26 pitches, 8 lead teams selected and 54 hours of work super hard with expert coaching….the teams where judged and the winners chosen. The...
