Caribbean ICT watch

Tier IV datacenter Blue NAP Americas is preparing a phase two expansion, which will add another 2MW of power to feed 800KW of white space critical load, TechNews T&T reported. 

Schneider Electric will supply critical infrastructure and collaborate in the design and engineering of the project, it said. 

Located in Curaçao, Blue NAP Americas is the only tier IV datacenter in the Caribbean, according to the report.

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Development bank IDB is preparing a US$450,000 project to support Trinidad and Tobago in strengthening cybersecurity systems, policies and human resource capacity. 

In the first half of 2022, the Caribbean experienced 144mn cyberattack attempts, according to an IBM study reported by Newsday. Trinidad and Tobago was among the countries that experience most attacks, it said. 

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The CEO of Suriname’s telecommunications company Telesur, Mike Paul Antonius, was appointed chairman of Canto for a two-year term. 

Canto is the regional trade association of the telecommunications and ICT sector with 135 member telcos, ICT firms and vendors located in more than 40 territories in the Americas, the Caribbean and the Netherlands. 

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The Commonwealth is pushing the development of a legal framework to support the digital economy and boost trade across the Caribbean. 

According to statement from the organization, if governments remove the legal requirement for commercial trade documents to be handled on paper and align legal systems to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) to enable digital documents to cross borders, it will unlock a US$1.2tn trade opportunity across Commonwealth nations. If coupled with the digitization of customs, that figure rises to US$2tn, twice the 2030 intra-Commonwealth trade target.