Make the Internet an Engine for Caribbean Transformation

A comprehensive vision for Internet-enabled Caribbean development is being advocated by Bevil Wooding, Caribbean Outreach Liaison for the American Registry for Internet Numbers and Special Advisor to the Commission of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.  Addressing a capacity audience at the 23rd Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture in St Kitts on November 7, 2018, […]

Curacao To Host Second Caribbean Internet Peering Forum

Curacao will host the Caribbean’s second regional Internet Peering Forum from June 8 to 9, 2016. Called CarPIF2, the upcoming meeting will bring together Internet service providers, Internet exchange points, telecommunications regulators and infrastructure providers for two days of in-depth talks on regional ICT development-related issues. Several major Internet and telecommunications industry players from the […]

Creating Caribbean futures

Why data infrastructure upgrades are the next step in regional evolution Many Caribbean livelihoods are made and lost around seasonal fluctuations in foreigners’ travel. For much of the region, tourism, an all-too-inefficient form of intraregional human traffic, is economic lifeblood. But for one group of Caribbean islands, a different kind of traffic is generating a […]

Networking the Internet community

Growth of the Caribbean Network Operators Group From the days when the Internet was still a university project until now, many of the technologies that we take for granted were developed and streamlined in environments where technical specialists and user communities came together to share knowledge and experiences. As the Internet matured it became critically […]