Guyana continues to lag behind other Caribbean countries in the Information and Communication Technology Sector (ICT) despite the manifest potential of the sector to contribute to the country’s development, Senior Vice President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds told a forum at the Pegasus Hotel last week.
Hinds’s keynote address to the forum posited that “the high cost of supporting infrastructure, the absence of enabling legislation and limited skill sets” have been significant contributors to the “slow” development of the ICT sector in Guyana. …2013 still finds us way behind our Caribbean colleagues in terms of scope,