Category: Curacao

Taking On The Myth of a Local Silicon Valley

November 5, 2009 by Taran Rampersad

Ace Suares, a friend of mine in the Netherlands Antilles, has been hearing a lot about Trinidad and Tobago's IT initiatives through a group called iGovTT. Frankly, without Ace I wouldn't have been able to write this because I've been busy with other things over the last few days.

Apparently iGovTT been quite busy in Curacao telling people about their big plans while they don't even have a functional website.

Honestly, I had not even heard of iGovTT before. It was mentioned before in the newspapers, but only briefly and never anything of worth. From this document (PDF), mined through Google, their mission is: We are the first choice for ICT services globally through the exploitation of Trinidad and
Tobago’s knowledge-based society.

Seriously, they need to work on that vision statement. 'Exploitation' screams for a replacement word. Actually, the whole vision statement should probably be ground up and fed to stray dogs as a matter of saving the world from yet another idiotic vision statement.

Because of all of this, Ace has been pointing me at things within Trinidad and Tobago's local media - something that I truly appreciate - and this requires me to get to writing about what is wrong with what they're doing. The list of what they are doing right, in my opinion, is much shorter. Perhaps that's why they're trying to sell that short list in Curacao. {Read more}