CARIBBEAN ICT ROAD SHOW CULMINATES WITH YOUTH FAIR AND BERBICE FARMERS OUTREACH

Jul 13, 2018 News

Racing Robots; Robots and apps to test the moisture content of soil; high tech drones; creating animated characters for television shows; smart classrooms attended by children at school in the Hinterland regions … These are mere representations of the high tech exhibits that will be on show at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) today.
Every single IT creation is the work of Guyanese secondary school students, university students, community ICT hub clubs, and small scale entrepreneurs equipped with an idea, a lot of Internet product design skills and a business plan.
The exhibition is part of the CTU Caribbean ICT Roadshow’s YOUTH FAIR that is intended to bring into one physical space the many Guyanese young IT designers, app developers and technologists who have built products that would be put to use. Running simultaneously with the exhibition in the am tomorrow will be a Robotics Workshop co-ordinated by STEMGuyana.
Youth Day will end with a town hall-styled discussion session featuring hundreds of students and Cathy Hughes, Minister of Public Telecommunications. It kicks off at 9.00 am inside and outside of the Conference Center.
The finale of the Roadshow is set for tomorrow at the Nand Persaud Conference Hall, #36 Village, Corentyne where the CTU’s and Guyanese Agriculture, ICT and other experts will meet farmers and residents throughout the day.
The creators of the prize winning app, Innovative Systems (InnoSys), are expected to unveil and demonstrate their AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES TRADE EXCHANGE app in Berbice as well.
Team InnoSys is made up of IT techs Deenauth Mohabeer, Munifa Erskine, Julius Simon and Sonny Kothapally.
Essentially the new App will bring producers, sellers and buyers of fruits, vegetables, ground provisions, dairy products, meats and other Guyanese agro-processed foods like cassava bread and cassareep into a single online marketplace. The opportunities for export are tremendous. (DPI)

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