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PDF version The Caribbean is committed to looking at ways of investing in renewable energy and the items in this focus area show how ICTs contribute to that work.
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  • Spectrum management in small island developing states at Eclac’s roundtable on telecommunications and the knowledge society

    Year: 
    2006
    Type of Publication: 
    Report
    ICT Focus Areas: 
    Spectrum Management

    In September 2004 the Caribbean Ministers of Telecommunications, directed the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to establish a Spectrum Management Task Force to examine and make recommendations on the following issues:
    • Establishment of the infrastructure to manage the wireless environment
    • Assessment of the free spectrum
    • Un-licensing of specific frequency bands
    • Determine the best practices for interference management and frequency monitoring
    • Appropriate spectrum allocation and assignment approaches
    This paper will discuss how the CTU proposes to implement this directive. It will also identify the objectives to be achieved by the adoption of a harmonised approach to spectrum management particularly in like of the establishment of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and the ever increasing use of wireless technology in the provision of new services across the region as the telecommunication sector is liberalized and opened to competition. The paper will identify the need to revise spectrum management 1

    Publication: 
    application/pdf iconsepctrum_management.pdf

  • Draft Master Implementation Plan for E-Powering Jamaica 2012 National ICT Strategy 2007 - 2012

    Year: 
    2007
    ICT Focus Areas: 
    Access / Connectivity
    Capacity Building
    eLearning, ICT in Education
    eHealth
    ICT Awareness
    eEmployment
    eAgriculture
    eBusiness
    eCommerce
    eEnvironment
    eGovernment
    Legal / Regulatory
    Related Member States: 
    Jamaica

    Please see updated document here.

    The Central Information Technology office has been mandated to develop and implement the National Information, Communications and Technology Strategy. The EPowering Strategy 2007 – 2012 has been developed and widely circulated. The vision and the 7 dimensions of the E-Powering Strategy have been adopted within the Vision 2030 Jamaica National Development Plan.

    Publication: 
    application/pdf iconMaster Implementation Plan EPJ 2012 draft_Dec07.pdf