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The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is seeking to enhance the local agricultural sector by introducing opportunities for ‘e-agriculture.’ E-agriculture is a contemporary field that focuses on the development of agriculture through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Speaking at the launch of Internet Week 2017, Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes, said technology […]
Internet Week 2017, hosted by Guyana, ended on a high note last Friday with a Town Hall styled meeting. More than 200 teenaged students from secondary schools in Georgetown, East and West Berbice, Essequibo Coast and islands, Linden, and East and West Demerara converged on the Guyana Pegasus. They joined numerous groups of young ICT […]
Around the world, the operations of cyber criminals far outstrip the sophistication of national legislative frameworks. Governments are facing constant pressure to assess global cyber threats and formulate appropriate local cyber security strategies. Across the Caribbean, governments are building strategic partnerships with regional actors like the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) and the Caribbean Telecommunications […]
With the commissioning of the Kitty Post Office, the Minister of Public Telecommunication has said that she is going to turn all Post Offices into ICT Hubs so that they can generate some other source of income in these changing times and technologies. The Minister ,Ms Catherine Hughes, stated, “I want to say that postal […]
Experts from the Information Communication Technology Sector (ICT) are gathered in Guyana to participate in the annual high-level Technology Conference to mark International Internet Week 2017. In her address to launch the forum, Minister of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes observed that as her ministry develops the country’s ICT capacity this will, in turn, lead to […]
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) today reopened its Kitty Post Office, with the aim to maximise e-commerce in the country’s postal services. In the feature address, Minister of Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes explained that the GPOC is dedicated to pushing more services online. The GPOC is committed to changing and adapting this role to better […]
The Government of Guyana continues to ensure that members of the Public Service are given the opportunity to expand their skills and knowledge through adequate training. Over the past months, several staff of the National Data Management Authority (eGovernment Programme) seized the opportunity to develop and strengthen their ICT and related skills in the form […]
Residents of Better Hope, on the East Coast of Demerara, are now the beneficiaries of an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Hub and a library. The two facilities were commissioned last Friday at the Better Hope Community Centre in collaboration with the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Neighborhood Democratic Council.
University of Guyana Tain and Turkeyen’s students will now be able to access local and international classes from their respective locations. This was revealed today when the University of Guyana officially launched its Teleconferencing Platform at the Centre for Information Technology (CIT), Turkeyen Campus.
The University of Guyana (UG) marked a historic moment on Wednesday as Telecommunications Minister Catherine Hughes and Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Chairman Leslie Sobers joined Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Ivelaw Griffith and Deputy VC, Dr. Paloma Mohamed-Martin in announcing the re-issuing of the university’s radio station licence. UG’s Communications Studies Division had been granted Radio […]