As this coun­try moves to­wards im­ple­ment­ing to­tal dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, a team from T&T is cur­rent­ly in In­dia to de­vel­op projects for im­ple­men­ta­tion.

This was re­vealed on Fri­day by the Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs, Dr Amery Browne as he de­liv­ered re­marks at the 75th Re­pub­lic Day of the Re­pub­lic of In­dia cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the In­di­an High Com­mis­sion.

The re­cep­tion was held at the Ma­hat­ma Ghan­di In­sti­tute of Cul­tur­al Co­op­er­a­tion in San Juan.

Browne said one of the key ar­eas of col­lab­o­ra­tion cur­rent­ly ad­vanced by T&T with In­dia is that of in­for­ma­tion com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy and dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion.

He said in Au­gust 2023, Has­sel Bac­chus, Min­is­ter of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion, led a tech­ni­cal mis­sion to In­dia to learn from that coun­try’s ex­pe­ri­ence in the pro­vi­sion of dig­i­tal gov­ern­ment ser­vices, which led to the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing in Co­op­er­a­tion in the field of shar­ing suc­cess­ful dig­i­tal so­lu­tions im­ple­ment­ed at pop­u­la­tion scale for dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion be­tween the Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion and its coun­ter­part Min­istry in the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia.

“A fol­low up tech­ni­cal mis­sion from T&T is cur­rent­ly in In­dia to de­vel­op projects for im­ple­men­ta­tion un­der this Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing. Giv­en that dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion is one of the pri­or­i­ties of the Gov­ern­ment of T&T,” Browne said.

He added that he is look­ing for­ward to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia “to en­hance the ca­pac­i­ty of our lo­cal in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor.”

Mean­while, last week Min­is­ter Browne said he was pleased Mex­i­co ob­tained a favourable court rul­ing in its law­suit against gun man­u­fac­tur­ers and dis­trib­u­tors.

The law­suit was filed on Au­gust 4, 2021 against gun man­u­fac­tur­ers and dis­trib­u­tors whose busi­ness prac­tices fa­cil­i­tate the traf­fick­ing of their prod­ucts in­to Mex­i­co.

“We are very pleased with this de­vel­op­ment and have been in close com­mu­ni­ca­tion with our Mex­i­can coun­ter­parts on the progress of the case.

“As we in­formed pre­vi­ous­ly, Trinidad and To­ba­go has been sup­port­ive of this law­suit with­in the con­text of our na­tion­al fo­cus and Cari­com’s re­gion­al fo­cus on re­duc­ing the flow of guns from North Amer­i­ca, and we did sub­mit an am­i­cus brief in col­lab­o­ra­tion with sev­er­al oth­er Cari­com mem­ber states. I con­tin­ue to em­pha­sise that the law­suit is against the pri­vate sec­tor gun man­u­fac­tur­ers and dis­trib­u­tors and not against the US Gov­ern­ment,” Browne added.