The ICT Revolution

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Cable Wireless (Barbados) Limited

• The ICT Revolution

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Some Facts

• By end 2004 1.8b mobile, 1.2b fixed lines, 0.84b
  Internet users
• By end 2005 0.216b broadband via fixed line,
  0.060b via mobile
• Predicted in 2008 half the world will have a
  mobile
• Today Consumption of digital media by under 55
  exceeds traditional TV, radio newspaper

You want to know the difference ICTs have made?
Try to live without them.
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Deloitte Touche USA Survey 2007

• 36 of respondents view cell phone as
  entertainment device
• Camera, text messaging and games rank highest on
  applications consumers most want on phones
• There is a demand for accessing content on the go
• Half of US media consumers are creating content
  online websites, photos albums, blogs

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Customers are driving Convergence, Convenience
and Mobility
My PC with multimedia
Desk IP phone
Main office My desk
Hotel
Wi-Fi Public hot spots
Head Office
On The Move
Home
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ICT Policy

• ICT can
• Stimulate economies through heightened use
• Empower our people and communities
• Enhance quality of life
• Governments have agreed to UN Millennium
  Development Goals ensue benefits of new
  technology is available to all
• World Summit on the Information Society ten
  goals to connect the unconnected by 2015
• Connect the World, Connect the Caribbean

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Policy and regulatory framework must facilitate
efficient investment

• To regulate or not to regulate?
• NGN regulation
• VoIP
• net neutrality
• broadband access rules
• convergence
• Policy and regulation must balance the needs of
  consumer and allow investors a fair return on
  investment...

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Regulation in small economies

• small economies have specific economic and public
  policy needs
• Regulation is a cost to consumers
• Policy makers must avoid attraction of dont
  reinvent the wheel approach
• Review approaches taken by other jurisdictions
  but conduct your own market assessment
• Is there a market failure
• Cost benefit analysis
• Consultation with providers is important
• Objective
• Level playing field
• Technology neutral

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World Summit on the Information Society Goals

• Connect villages with ICT and establish community
  access points
• Connect universities, colleges, secondary and
  primary
• Connect scientific and research centres with ICT
• Connect public libraries, cultural centres,
  museums, post offices and archives with ICT
• Connect health centres and hospitals with ICT
• Connect all local and central government
  departments and establish websites and email
  addresses

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World Summit on the Information Society Goals

• Adapt all primary and secondary school curricula
  to meet the challenges of the Information
  Society, taking into account national
  circumstances
• Ensure that all of the world's population have
  access to television and radio services
• Encourage the development of content and to put
  in place technical conditions in order to
  facilitate the presence and use of all world
  languages on the Internet
• Ensure that more than half the worlds
  inhabitants have access to ICTs within their
  reach

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Key Actions to achieve Goals and derive benefits
of ICT

• Governments must focus on consumer usage
• Develop
• Universal Service policies and funds
• Policies and strategies to stimulate usage by
  citizens at all levels schools, entrepreneurs,
  businesses, seniors, challenged
• Lead with e government initiatives
• Connect the Caribbean is a powerful vehicle for
  collaboration
• Act now..2015 is around the corner