Regional ICT strategy comes into focus

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Caribbean Community (Caricom) officials with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) met in Grenada on Monday to discuss and improve on a draft Regional Digital Development Strategy (RDDS) and the strategic objectives of the implementation plan.

The ministers’ discussion took place on the platform of the 36th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) under which ICT falls.

The Caricom Secretariat led the formulation of the strategy to guide the ICT activities and initiatives in the region, and to use ICT as a critical development tool for the Caribbean.

In this regard, ICT ministers also considered a governance structure which will be critical for supporting the implementation of the draft RDDS. They discussed for subsequent approval the Draft Regional e- Government Strategy (2010 – 2014) that was developed in 2009 by a core group under the leadership of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (Caricad). (Excerpted from Caribbean360)

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