EDITOR’S NOTE: At the beginning of February, #EduCaribbean dedicated its newsletter to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This issue of the newsletter is solely dedicated to Information Communication and Technology (ICT).
Our five articles are on Guyana, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Two are on Guyana, both taken from iNewsGuyana, and both involve the University of Guyana (UG). Two others are on Jamaica, and the remaining article on the Dominican Republic.
In our headline, “UG partners with Google, CSOD to train 150 youths in Guyana”, Google.org funds a programme in which UG and the Caribbean School of Data (CSOD) deliver Data Literacy, Data Management, Visualization, Data Integration and Big Data Analytics.
The second article on Guyana is like the first: a U.S. funded programme; but this time funds come from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The remaining articles deal with some issues affecting ICT use in the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic offers one solution to address the availability of affordable hardware. And, Jamaica weighs face-to-face versus online learning in a pandemic.
EduCaribbean Weekday ed. 2021-03-22
