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Prime Minister Andrew Holness speaks at today's launch of the Coding Academy

JAMAICA | Holness launches Amber/HEART/NSTA Trust Coding Academy

KINGSTON, January 14, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness today officially launched Jamaica’s first ever Coding Academy through…

January 14, 2021
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Public Education Specialist at the OUR, Elizabeth Bennett Marsh

JAMAICA'S Telecom Regulators give more directives to Flow, Digicel

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 18, 2020 - Beginning today, communication providers Flow and Digicel will be required to provide…

December 19, 2020
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UNITED NATIONS | A ‘digital canyon’: 1.3 billion school children can’t log on to internet at home

UNITED NATIONS, New York, December 1, 2020 - A staggering two-thirds of world’s school-aged children – 1.3 billion…

December 1, 2020
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UNITED STATES | Apple unveils first Macs built to run more like iPhones

SAN RAMON, California (AP) — Apple is rolling out new Mac computers powered by the same kind of…

November 10, 2020
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JAMAICA | Jamaica must transform approach to technology to compete in the Industrial revolution

KINGSTON, July 27, 2020 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica must fundamentally transform its approach to technology…

July 27, 2020
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PNP spokesman on technology, Julian Robinson

JAMAICA | PNP wants gov't to remove taxes on tablets, computer devices

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, June 24, 2020: Shadow Minister of Technology, Mr. Julian Robinson, M.P., is calling on the Andrew…

July 26, 2020
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Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Hon. Keith Mitchell.

CARICOM | Short-Term Digital Transformation Plan to be Ready by July Month-End

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – June 30, 2020 - A short-term plan to fast-track responses to…

June 30, 2020
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COVID-19 | Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea?

THE WIRE - In 2011, two scientists at Cambridge University in the UK devised a clever way to…

March 16, 2020
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Huawei and 5G: UK had little choice but say yes to Chinese – here’s why

The UK’s decision not to ban China’s Huawei from being a supplier for its next-generation mobile network has…

January 31, 2020
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CEO of Digicel Guyana, Gregory Dean says Guyanese are sick of being left behind and missing out on the opportunities that come with a digital economy.

GUYANA | Digicel slams gov’t for “dark ages” telecoms sector, as GTT celebrates 29 years

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 31, 2020 - A day after the Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes, boasted of…

January 31, 2020
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Converting aging paper documents to digital archives can be a painstaking effort.

Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people

Paper documents are still priceless records of the past, even in a digital world. Primary sources stored in…

January 9, 2020
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