Open News, Events, Blogs


The COIWeb aggregates news, opinions and developments from various research sources around the world, including:    
  • The Open Data Research Network  hosted by the Web Foundation, 
  • World Bank Open Data & ICT4D Blogs
  • Open Knowledge Foundation
  • GovLabs @ NYU


ICT-Pulse

With the Barbados Revenue Agency recently experiencing a significant data breach, it is once again an opportunity to revisit our security posture. In this article, we recommend that Caribbean countries establish national cybersecurity standards or guidelines to help private and public sector stakeholders, including MSMEs, improve their security...

According to the research and advisory firm, Forrester, the global digital economy will reach USD 16.5 trillion and capture 17 per cent of global GDP by 2028, but how is the Caribbean region’s digital economy developing? Management Consultant and International Trade Policy Specialist, Chelceé Brathwaite, returns to the Podcast to provide an update...

Digital diplomacy has been an emerging area in the diplomatic space, through which Caribbean countries can strengthen their international relationships, enhance their economic competitiveness, and play a more active role in shaping the global digital landscape. In this article, we explore the concept of digital diplomacy and how Caribbean...

Whether we realise it or not, data centres are the backbone of our online experience. All the digital services we enjoy use data centres to store, manage and process all of the data, interactions and transactions generated. Giovanni King, the CEO of Blue NAP Americas and the Chairman of the Caribbean Datacenter Association discusses, among other...

Do you have what it takes to be a digital nomad? We revisit a 2022 conversation we had with the following intrepid travellers: Juleen Gentles, who is from Jamaica, but spoke with us from Ghana; Marsiya Issah who is from Ghana, but had been living in Barbados; and Andres Phillips, who is from Barbados, but had recently ended a 10-month stint in...

Although data has become the new currency, driving decisions, innovations, and economic growth, Open Data initiatives seem to have stalled in the Caribbean region. In this article, we highlight key benefits and challenges of fostering Open Data in the region.   Open Data. For those in the know, the term was very popular in the Caribbean...

Starting on 21 August 2024, we are just days away from the 20th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum, the longest-running Internet Governance Forum in the world! With Nigel Cassimire, the Deputy Secretary General and Coordinator of the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF), we get an update on the Internet Governance space and the CIGF.  ...

Across the Caribbean region, most countries are embarking on projects to implement a digital ID system. Although there are considerable national benefits to doing so, improving and increasing citizens’ access such as a broad range of services, digital IDs is a complex exercise. We revisit a 2022 interview with Trevor Forrest, of 876 Solutions on...

The recent CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most sophisticated systems and the ripple effect to all connected systems. In this article, we outline three important lessons businesses can learn from the outage.   On 19 July 2024, a considerable portion of the world’s computer...

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

This is the eleventh conversation of the 100+ Conversations to Inspire Our New Direction (#OKFN100) project. Since 2023, we are meeting with more than 100 people to discuss the future of open knowledge, shaped by a diverse set of visions from artists, activists, scholars, archivists, thinkers, policymakers, data scientists, educators, and...