The first of multiple planned international submarine fiber optic cables was landed at Macqueripe Bay in Chaguaramas, Trinidad in April 2007.
The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at its Twenty-Third Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana, July 2002, recognized the potential of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for enhancing and integrating our societies in areas such as education, health, poverty reduction, delivery of public information and governance
In May 2003, the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (GORTT) launched its national Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategy, dubbed “fastforward”. This strategy identified, inter alia, e-Government as a key driver for the delivery of efficient and effective citizen-centered services.
For four [4] decades the Ministry of Housing, via its executing agencies, the Trinidad and Tobago Housing Development Corporation (HDC) formerly NHA, the Land Settlement Agency (LSA) and the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Committee (SILWC) provided homes for citizens using a manual application process.
The rapid adoption and interest in ICT within the government of Trinidad and Tobago and the business sector has been a driving force behind the wide spread use of “off-the-shelf” licensed software packages in the office place.
This paper seeks to facilitate a more proactive relationship with the wider Internet, and thus encourage an environment conducive to indigenous content development and innovation in services.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a global, collaborative process, under the auspices of the United Nations. The process is focused on developing a harmonized global agenda that will guide the international community into the information society and economy.