Davidson Ishmael, the Barbadian government’s minister of industry, innovation, science, and technology speaking at the Caribbean Digital Summit The inaugural Caribbean Digital Summit brought together senior public servants from more than 10 countries to share insight on the challenges of achieving digital transformation in public services and government operations, and the region’s success stories. Organised by Global Government Forum and hosted by the prime minister of Barbados, the summit took place on 16-17 October in Bridgetown and was co-located with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union regional ICT Week. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Davidson Ishmael, the Barbadian government’s minister of industry, innovation, science, and technology (MIST), said the summit gave delegates an opportunity to speak “openly and honestly” about “their respective digital transformation journeys”. MIST is leading on what Ishmael described as “an aggressive public sector modernisation and digitisation programme”, which includes the development and implementation of “online services, payment systems and conversion of paper-based records to digital documents”. Ishmael warned that Barbados faced “an increasingly competitive global environment”, which placed heavy demands on the state to “encourage and promote through digital transformation the introduction of new and/or improved products and services for its resident population”. Touching on the topics […]
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