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The International Telecommunications Union?s Connect the Americas Summit, which is promoting broadband Internet for everyone in the Americas region by 2015, concluded on July 19th 2012 in Panama.
The Summit, which attracted Heads of State, ICT Ministers and Senior ICT experts from throughout the Americas Region, focused on mobilizing the human, financial and technical resources required to close ICT gaps in the region.
Antigua and Barbuda?s delegation to the Summit was led by Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Honourable Dr.Edmond Mansoor and included Telecommunications Officer, Clement Samuel and Senior Special Projects Coordinator, Asha Christain-Philip.
While at the Summit, Minister Mansoor engaged in wide ranging discussions with CARICOM ICT Ministers regarding the future of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union as well as the need for ensuring a sustained funding mechanism for those projects from which all the CARICOM Member States are mutually benefitting. These projects include the harmonization of Internet protocols for the Caribbean (HIPCAR) as well as the continued modernization of spectrum management.?
Minister Mansoor also?represented the Nation at a multi-stakeholder, interactive panel focusing on the bankrolling of broadband infrastructure.
?Direct infrastructure funding through Public Private People?s Partnerships is the single most viable option for the investments needed for broadband Internet infrastructure?, Minister Mansoor declared at the Connect the Americas Summit. ?The Government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to impact on the lives of Antiguans and Barbudans by literally bringing technology to the doorstep of the ordinary man, woman and child?, Minister Mansoor said.
While in Panama City, Minister Mansoor also held bilateral discussions with the USA ?s Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy, Ambassador Philip Verveer as well as with the Secretary ? General of the International Telecommunications Union, Dr. Hamadoun Toure.?
Over the last year, the Ministry of Information, working in partnership with telecommunications companies, has opened thirty-two (32) community computer access Centres, operated five (5) mobile IT classrooms, provided laptops and broadband Internet connectivity to one thousand six hundred (1600) teachers, and provided computers and training to one hundred (100) managers of day care centers.
On July 12th, Government announced its newest ICT initiative, the Government Assisted Technology Endeavour (GATE), which will see the deployment of computer tablets and 4G LTE broadband Internet to thousands of secondary school students.?
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Source: http://nicefmradio.com/featured/antigua-and-barbuda-participates-in-historic-panama-summit/
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