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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tech­nol­o­gy Mat­ters

Toward a single Caribbean ICT space

Im­ple­men­ta­tion keys

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In 1989, the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my (CSME) was an­nounced as an ini­tia­tive "to deep­en the in­te­gra­tion move­ment and to bet­ter re­spond to the chal­lenges and op­por­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by glob­al­i­sa­tion." In the pro­ceed­ing years, both the chal­lenges and op­por­tu­ni­ties for the Caribbean have in­creased. As the po­ten­tial of glob­al­i­sa­tion evolved in­to a new glob­al re­al­i­ty, Caribbean economies and Caribbean so­ci­ety have un­der­gone un­prece­dent­ed trans­for­ma­tion. To­day, the ques­tion of deep­er re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion is not just an ide­al, it is an im­per­a­tive for the re­gion's sur­vival.

Ra­tio­nale for space

The Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my was en­vi­sioned to pro­vide for the free move­ment of cap­i­tal, skilled labour, and the free­dom to es­tab­lish busi­ness en­ter­pris­es any­where with­in Cari­com. It was in­tend­ed to fos­ter greater eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion and greater so­cial co­he­sion among par­tic­i­pat­ing mem­ber states. Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions has al­ways been foun­da­tion­al to the twin am­bi­tions of eco­nom­ic and so­cial de­vel­op­ment.

Ad­vances in in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy have rad­i­cal­ly al­tered the op­tions and op­er­a­tions of busi­ness and gov­ern­ments.

In par­tic­u­lar, the In­ter­net, mo­bile com­put­ing and the pro­lif­er­a­tion of web and mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions has per­ma­nent­ly trans­formed how we in­ter­act and trans­act. It is per­fect­ly rea­son­able, there­fore, that any move­ment to­ward na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment or re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion must, of ne­ces­si­ty, in­cor­po­rate strate­gic ap­pro­pri­a­tion of in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy.


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