CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana - A Draft Regional Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Strategy, designed to create a Single ICT Space for the Region is under review at the Fifth Meeting of the Regional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Steering Committee in Barbados.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders across the Region will, from Thursday 11 November, have an opportunity to discuss and refine the contents of a draft Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Strategy when a Regional Consultation and Awareness Campaign is launched in St. George’s, Grenada.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU), Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC) met in Madrid, Spain on Monday to finalise the “Madrid Documents” for approval by Heads of State and Government attending the Sixth EU-LAC Summit on Tuesday.
The endorsement of the Madrid Documents would represent a new strategic relationship between Europe and Latin America and include a new financing line in Brussels for Latin America and the Caribbean. The documents also include the following:
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Measures to accelerate the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in focus at the Thirty-Fourth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which convenes 28 May, in St. Georges, Grenada.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Guyana on the occasion of the 32nd Special meeting of the Agriculture COTED. I am saddened to learn that this may very well be the final Agricultural COTED for 2009, and indeed for quite some time. I am saddened because there seems to be so much that remains to be done in Agriculture in our part of the world.
It is my pleasure to make this statement on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on this the third Anniversary of World Telecommunications and Information Society Day which we commemorate today under the theme “Protecting Children in Cyberspace”.
New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have irreversibly changed the world we live in by accelerating the pace and volume of innovation. This has fundamentally changed the way we transmit, receive, adapt and use knowledge and information.
Mr. Chairman
Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations
Secretary-General and Staff
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the media
Ladies and Gentlemen
I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage of the next few days to further enjoy our country.
Mr. Chairman
Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations
Secretary-General and Staff
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the media
Ladies and Gentlemen
I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage of the next few days to further enjoy our country.
CARICOM, Guyana -- Oct. 21, 2008 -- The work towards the development of an Action Plan which will augment the development of a regional strategy for Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) was advanced this week.