Public Health:
How can ICT be applied to facilitate improved medical and health services, particularly in rural and low-income areas of the region? To what extent are we practising tele-medicine in terms of remote access to medical records, tele-diagnosis, interconnection of regional epidemiological data bases and Caribbean centres for disease control, etc...
Community Education:
How are regional regulators - OUR, ECTEL, TATT, Jamaica's Spectrum Management Agency, differentiating frequency and spectrum allocation for distance learning, virtual class rooms, etc..in their assignment of licenses? To what extent is WiMax being deployed in the region to bridge the digital divide in elevating the literacy and conscioiusness of Caribbean Society?
Pure Water:
Is ICT being applied to the measurement, conservation and protection of pure water supplies in the region? To what extent is the strategic deployment of ICT linked to future generation access to potable water in the Caribbean?
Caribbean Culture:
How can proliferation of ICT and the training to optimise its use, tap the ;enormous cultural and economic potential of regional arts and artists' intellectual property rights protection and global market access?
Environmental Presevation
Disaster Preparedness and Relief Management.
Regulatory and competition policy related to telecommunications and ICT
ICT and Telecommunications research
Implementation and/or enabling ICT development
E-Government
E-Education
Community Tele-Centres
Comments (2)
Triniwebdiva said
at 8:42 am on Jun 4, 2008
I have one question - the list is long and interesting, but how do we focus it in on sectors that persons NEED to be trained in, to better do their work? Do we know the work that people are involved in? Should this be a part of the poll?
valerie said
at 8:31 pm on Jun 5, 2008
Jacqueline,
Your question is very valid : how do we focus the list on sectors that persons NEED to be trained in, to better do their work? Do we know the work that people are involved in? Should this be a part of the poll?
As part of the poll we have to ask persons something like:
1. What sector they are most involved in
2. What do they know of ICT tools available and being used to support work in that sector
3. How would they describe their skills in use any of these tools in their work in that sector
4. What areas would they like to have training in
Regarding the list, that Jacqueline has listed above, some comments have been made on the cross cutting nature of some of the topics, and many are indeed interelated, but we should consider that we are seeking to define "development sectors". Remember we are not looking for discussion topics or thematic areas here- we are looking to provide skills to practitioners in the field to use ICTs tool to do what they do better in the sector they work.- so for example we want to make education into e-education ; use ICTs to promote/develop cultural goods and services, enable us to do Disaster Preparedness and Relief Management better (maybe using GIS tools); develop ICT enabled community education programmes (eg online adult literacy) etc.
In my opinion, the CISC topics dont readily lend themselves to consideration in this context.
What do you think?
Can we move to fine tuning on this basis?
We can come up with maybe 8 sectors(or a few less) which we will include in the poll. Each should be expanded in the way that Felipe did it so that people can understand the ICT enabled aspect in the sector
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