Heads of Authorities of the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) have endorsed a technique that can information how the Area navigates the digital panorama.
Dickon Mitchell, CARICOM Chair and Prime Minister of Grenada, mentioned that CARICOM Heads of Authorities supported the Regional Digital Resilience Technique on the forty seventh Common Assembly of the Convention of Heads of Authorities in St. George’s, Grenada. As Lead Head of Authorities with duty for Science and Know-how within the CARICOM Quasi Cupboard, Prime Minister Mitchell offered the technique on the Assembly.
At a media convention on the ultimate day of the Assembly, Prime Minister Mitchell mentioned the technique will handle points corresponding to digital integration, infrastructure and connectivity, digital abilities, workforce improvement and capacity-building, and the coverage and regulatory environments.
He introduced that Heads of Authorities additionally endorsed the creation of a digital abilities fund which will likely be used to coach 10,000 CARICOM youths in particular digital abilities “to allow them to transfer within the Caribbean and never depart the Caribbean and be capable of present their companies to residents globally.” Youth unemployment and under-employment may also be addressed by means of the institution of the fund. CARICOM will present partial financing and intends to hunt assist for the fund from its worldwide improvement companions, the CARICOM Chair mentioned.
As a part of the Digital Resilience Technique, the Heads of Authorities agreed to determine a CARICOM Digital Abilities Coaching and Studying Community (CDSTLD), and to launch the Digi-Good CARICOM Digital Abilities Initiative in 2024, the Assembly Communiqué said.
The Heads of Authorities additionally agreed to undertake a regional undertaking to coach CARICOM residents in key areas corresponding to Synthetic Intelligence and Knowledge Analytics.
In line with the Communiqué, extra actions below the Technique will embody institution of the Cybersecurity and Resilience Data Sharing Framework at IMPACS; launch of a telemedicine pilot in three CARICOM Member States; commissioning of a CARICOM Digital Well being Technique; and institution of an Synthetic Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Grenada.
On the Opening of the forty seventh Common Assembly on July 28, Prime Minister Mitchell dedicated to championing an “formidable, digital transformation agenda”, mentioning that the Area has a chance to make sure that it isn’t left behind within the technological revolution.
“We owe it to the following technology of Caribbean residents to offer them the instruments and the schooling to make sure that they’ll keep within the Caribbean and ply their abilities anyplace on this planet, as a result of there isn’t any higher place to dwell than within the Caribbean,” he mentioned.
