Gender-based violence is not only prevalent, it is also highly pervasive in many Caribbean countries. Ronelle King, Founder and Director of Life in Leggings discusses how this organisation is leveraging technology to reduce the rape culture and the occurrence of gender-based violence in the region, along with the challenges of balancing sustainability as a non-profit.

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In the June 2021 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Simone Pasmore and Ian Mitchell, the panel discusses: automation for business operations: what does it really cost; and e-commerce and local and regional trade, barriers and opportunities. 

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If one delves beneath the surface of today’s technologies, one is likely to find that much of the products, algorithms and developments that are being integrated into our lives have been built inherently with certain biases or prejudices. Founder of dgtlfutures.com, Matthew Cowen, discusses the role technology has been playing in perpetuating bias.

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The LGBTQ+ community worldwide still experiences considerable discrimination, but is a segment with significant spending power, which frequently, is overlooked. Donnya ‘Zi’ Piggott is the CEO of Pink Coconuts, a new LGBTQ+ travel start-up focused on creating spaces for queer travellers to thrive.

In our conversation with Donnya we discuss, among other things:

• The challenges of launching a travel and hospitality business during a pandemic;
• How Pink Coconuts it is leveraging technology; along with
• Why it is important to focus on sustainability before the social good.

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Ideally, a unified Caribbean region should be better and stronger than its constituent parts. With regard to telecoms and ICT, we still in the process of establishing a seamless and harmonised regional space. In our recent conversation with Rodney Taylor, the new Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, he shares his thoughts on, among other things:

• the CARICOM Single ICT Space;
• the efforts afoot to establish a regional regulatory machinery; and
• what should be the region’s priorities, with respect to telecoms and ICT.

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2020 was supposed to be an outstanding year for research and data intelligence firm, Bluedot Insights. However, by March 2020, all of the growth and performance projections came crashing down. Company CEO, Larren Peart, gives us: an update on Bluedot Insights since our first conversation in 2018; some of the challenges that were experienced, and the tough decisions that had to be made; and what might be in store for the company moving forward.

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In the May 2021 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Allison James and Andrew Olton, the panel discusses: pivoting to sustainable business models; and IT risk management.

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Sylvester Cadette, of the International Telecommunication Union, discusses:

• the Tampere Convention;
• why it is important for more Caribbean countries to accede to that Convention; along with
• the need for Caribbean countries to have more comprehensive emergency telecommunications plans.

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In our fifth instalment on social enterprises that are leveraging ICT, we speak with the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Akata Farms in Grenada, Bevon Chadel Charles. During the course of the conversation, Bevon discusses:

• the ways in which Akata Farms it is leveraging technology;
• how and why Akata farms is a social enterprise; and
• the challenges of being a tech social enterprise in the agriculture sector.

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Even more now than when we discussed it in 2019, chatbots are all the rage. Following up from our previous conversation on chatbots, Kern Elliott of iGovTT is back to tell us, among other things:  

• how chatbots are now being used;
• the biggest mistake or oversight organisations are making with chatbots; and
• the steps organisations should be considering to take their chatbot game to the next level.

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