TECHNOLOGY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

During the 2022 prog & Entrepreneurship Taskforce accomplished the following:

1. Partnership MOU between Santa Clara University and Standup for Jamaica to deliver Entrepreneurship training to prisons - Up to 2000 inmates will benefit.

2. The Google Developer Student Club at Utech successfully entered the Google Solution challenge for 2022 - The application submitted focused on improving security for female taxi riders in Jamaica

3 At the Diaspora 60 conference in Jamaica, we discussed our support to help teachers with digital education tools such as Google Classroom and basic computing skills - We trained over 2000 teachers. And how to leverage informatics in the healthcare sector. Larkland and Antonette participated in the conference

4. Partnering with the JTDA, we delivered several Jaminars on topics such as Blockchain, Business Certifications, Infrastructure Automation, Metaverse and Google Machine Learning - An average of 50 participants per session

5. JDTAN facilitated Google for Startups holding a successful one week workshop in August working with partners such as Utech, DBJ and Techbeach - 40+ entrepreneurs participated and will get follow up mentoring.

6. Continued discussions around providing affordable connectivity to all Jamaicans, collaborating with Digicel, Office of the Prime Minister and Google/Taara. We also participated in a Universal Services Fund (USF) connectivity panel and presented at the UTech/IEEE conference on 5G Strategies.