A very good friend of mine, lazing in the peaceful, serene community of Lethem in Region 9, demanded that I make myself useful for a change and explain to the laypersons dem the concepts of net neutrality and how it relates to us in Guyana. After harbouring some unfriendly, malicious thoughts about him for a … More Net Neutrality and Abidese
Lance Hinds And so it came to pass that in the highest, decision making assembly in the land, on the 18th of July in the year of Our Lord two thousand and sixteen, after two years of Select Committee hearings which generated close to 500 pages of related minutes and notes, The Telecommunications Bill 2016 … More Telecommunications Liberalisation – Sunday musings
Amidst all the yelling and screaming in the dailies about whether or not ministers should get an increase in salaries and even more noise about how this increase was going to be effected, there were two articles which also caught my attention and triggered more than a passing interest. The first one was about … More Citizens’ right and Open Government
Sometimes, for very long periods, I get completely wrapped up in this world of information and communications technology and like many of my colleagues, forget myself. And so I delve into debates about open source versus proprietary software, which databases should be used or not be used for specific functions. I continue to find ways … More ICT and Real Empowerment
Guyana has, and continues to suffer acutely for the migration of university graduates and professionals seeking greener (if not just green) pastures in more enabling environments. This state of affairs severely affects the ability of the Private Sector to become a fully effective, competitive force with the ability to challenge for business opportunities in the … More Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the shaping of tomorrow
There were a series of events that generated some interest and also intense social media discourse this past week. It started off nicely enough with a number of local ICT practitioners and educators celebrating Software Freedom Day by hosting a working session with a series of presentations on the work being done using free open … More Hacking vs. Open Source
In the interest of information and guidance, an information society is an environment in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity. An information society may be contrasted with societies in which the economic underpinning is primarily Industrial or Agrarian. The machine tools of the Information … More The Challenges of building an information society
I have been reading the renewed calls for modernized intellectual property legislation with great interest and admittedly, with some wry amusement. Some of us have been yelling and screaming about this for years. We have either been ignored by the powers that be or gotten a placatory response that the policy makers are now reviewing … More Protecting Intellectual Assets
Over the past few weeks I have watched the exchanges between the Government of Guyana and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. with great interest. Let me say first of all that as the current head of the oldest private sector organization in Guyana it is my hope that the two parties begin to engage constructively … More Of Matters Financial
I wish once again to highlight the words of the Minister of Finance during the presentation of the 2015 budget in Parliament. “One of the first initiatives, therefore, must be the establishment of an advisory body to develop the broad vision of this administration into a detailed plan that specifies the individual projects that be … More The Anatomy of an ICT plan
Wanderings of a Beautful Mind 