“It is my ministry’s and by extension, the Government’s intention that the National ICT Business and Innovation Symposium serve as a meeting of the minds for the local and regional stakeholders in the ICT sector and that from our shared experiences, we gain not only the vision for our burgeoning ICT sectors, but also gain insight as to how to make our vision a reality,” he said.
If Public Administration Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan has her way that's how citizens would be able to vote in the future.
Speaking yesterday at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Service Industries (TTCSI) at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) in Port of Spain, Seepersad-Bachan said her priority in the short term would be the modernisation of the public service through e-Governance.
"We have a lot of services, especially information and communication technologies (ICT) in the public service, but the Service has never been transformed to take advantage of that," Seepersad-Bachan told the Express yesterday during the launch of Public Service Week on the Brian Lara Promenade, Port of Spain.
“Education in particular can be seen to be made more available to the public as distance learning and online tuition offer citizens greater opportunities for self-improvement in an ICT-empowered society,” Griffith said. In order to realise the real and potential benefits an improved ICT sector affords, Griffith said, the Government has given its commitment to promote the integration of ICTs into our society by increasing the activities and prominence of entities intimately tied to the sector.
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Speaking with the Sunday Guardian, chief executive officer of iGovTT, Kendall Tull said there was a number of things happening in collaboration with the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. “The next step we are looking at right now is a pilot programme that examines mobile devices across all platforms and the ways that we can integrate these productivity tools into Government.”
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