Shas­tri Boodan

The Min­istry of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment be­lieves its Glob­al Ser­vices Pro­mo­tion Pro­gramme is a key area for eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and has just con­clud­ed a two day train­ing ses­sion for close to 80 par­tic­i­pants from UWI, UTT and COSTAAT, as well as 50 lo­cal en­tre­pre­neurs and stake­hold­ers in the In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy en­abled Ser­vices (ITeS) and IT sec­tors.

The par­tic­i­pants gained in­sight in­to tech­nol­o­gy to en­hance their trade and busi­ness­es us­ing cut­ting edge web and mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy.

In a re­lease the min­istry said train­ing was fa­cil­i­tat­ed by An­to­nio Guz­man, Google De­vel­op­ment Ex­pert and Fran­cis­co Sol­sona, Re­gion­al and Ac­cel­er­a­tor Lead for Span­ish and Latin Amer­i­ca.

The train­ing fo­cused on in­for­ma­tion fire­base app tech­nol­o­gy, Google app plat­form tech­nol­o­gy, ac­cel­er­at­ed mo­bile app tech­nol­o­gy and pro­gres­sive web ap­pli­ca­tions and was de­liv­ered through pre­sen­ta­tions, work­shops, men­tor­ing and net­work­ing ses­sions. It was the first of many ini­tia­tives that will be rolled out through the Glob­al Ser­vices Pro­mo­tion­al Pro­gramme.

The gen­er­al ob­jec­tive is to sup­port the ad­vance­ment of T&T as a po­ten­tial leader for the glob­al pro­vi­sion of In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy en­abled Ser­vices (ITeS). The ex­pect­ed im­pacts are in­creased ex­ports and em­ploy­ment in the ITeS sec­tor which can be ac­com­plished through sec­tor-spe­cif­ic train­ing and sup­port ser­vices, in­vest­ment pro­mo­tion and brand­ing, as well as ca­pac­i­ty build­ing to im­prove the busi­ness cli­mate and reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work of ITeS in T&T.

Ben­e­fi­cia­ries will in­clude stu­dents, the un­em­ployed and un­der­em­ployed who will re­ceive train­ing at the Glob­al Ser­vices In­ter­na­tion­al­iza­tion Hub; ex­port­ing ITeS com­pa­nies who re­quire ad­di­tion­al qual­i­fied labour to scale their ex­ports; and small and medi­um en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) who wish to in­crease their ex­port ca­pac­i­ty.

This pro­gramme was made avail­able from In­ter-Amer­i­can Bank (IDB) loan and grant fund­ing.