KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica is internet hosting the primary Excessive-Degree Coverage Dialogue with the Caribbean as companions from the European Union and the Caribbean started a two-day assembly right here on Thursday.
Co-chaired by the Jamaican authorities and the European Fee, in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago authorities, the coverage dialogue goals to outline concrete EU-Caribbean digital cooperation alternatives within the lead-up to the 2025 Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)-EU summit, scheduled for November 9-10.
An announcement issued right here stated that the area’s distinct geographical traits, cultural range, and heightened vulnerability to pure disasters require particular digital options.
“Consequently, Caribbean experiences associated to digital growth might differ from these seen throughout Latin America. Sub-regional coordination and cooperation with the broader Latin American area and companions just like the European Union are important for addressing these nuances and leveraging context-specific alternatives,” the assertion stated, including that the EU is dedicated to supporting Caribbean digital options to handle Caribbean challenges.
It said that other than the International Gateway Funding Agenda, European and Caribbean policymakers will maintain discussions on the thematic coverage elements of the Digital Alliance with a Caribbean perspective, together with cybersecurity, e-governance, knowledge governance, and synthetic intelligence.
“Companions of each side of the Atlantic have expressed a excessive degree of ambition to handle particular points the place EU-Caribbean cooperation could make a distinction,” the assertion stated.
Because the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season begins, the EU stands able to help the technology of dependable and efficient early warning and emergency response info.
The assembly right here will even concentrate on gender views in digital insurance policies, including that inclusive digitalization is essential to closing the gender hole.
“This dialogue builds on the momentum from 2024, when Belize, Guyana, and Grenada joined the EU-LAC Digital Alliance, highlighting the Caribbean’s dedication to bi-regional digital cooperation.”
The assertion recalled that throughout the high-level Stocktaking Session in Chile in November final 12 months, Jamaica proposed its co-leadership and internet hosting of Caribbean coverage dialogue in 2025, with Trinidad and Tobago as a collaborator.
