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Trinidad and Tobago, through the Ministry of Digital Transformation, is set to establish a Tier 4 Data Centre to host sensitive and confidential Government data. Minister Bacchus says the move is key as this country strengthens its digital capacity. He also lauded the latest digital solutions coming out of the Developers' Hub initiative, as he called on members of the public to come forward with solutions to our everyday problems. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00 As the region undertakes the transition from small island developing state status to small island digital states,
00:07 Trinidad and Tobago, through the Ministry of Digital Transformation,
00:11 is set to establish a Tier 4 data center.
00:15 The idea behind that is we're going to build it to establish a place to house
00:20 very sensitive government data. It's not meant to replace the ones that we have. It's not meant to
00:26 not involve the private sector in what we're doing. It's all going to be in a collaborative way.
00:30 And so it's one more step in, you know, taking that journey to becoming a small island digital state.
00:36 Minister Bakker says the intention is that the center will also service external clients.
00:42 So for those of you who are looking for places to house your data, store your stuff off island in resilient and secure places,
00:49 that's what we're dealing with. He also notes that connectivity is a key component of the digitalization formula.
00:56 Even as he acknowledges the challenges.
00:58 We made a commitment that access to affordable broadband is a public good.
01:04 And I think that is the aim of all all states, whether that's small island developing or otherwise.
01:09 Difficult to achieve, but we're working on it and we're getting there and there are a number of ways that we're doing it.
01:14 The other thing is that we recognize that data is
01:17 probably the most important thing that we all possess across all of the territories that we have. We're not going to be able to
01:25 to get to the place that we need to get to without effective and proper management of our data.
01:31 No mention was made of the slew of cyber attacks across both the public and private sector over the past few months.
01:38 But the minister did list regulation and legislation as priority areas for collaboration.
01:45 Infrastructure aside, Minister Bakker also emphasizes the importance of developing our human resource capacity.
01:53 He had high praise for the recent successes of the developers hub as the ministry seeks to create a
02:00 competitive software development sector in TNT.
02:04 We're training our own people, we're certifying our own people,
02:07 we're challenging our own people and we're giving them things to solve that are affecting the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:14 They've solved five critical issues for us.
02:16 For those involved in the business industry of liquor, they've solved the liquor license data management pieces.
02:23 So they have a solution for that.
02:25 For those of you who have ever applied for a passport and wonder where it is in the system,
02:29 they've solved an online tracking application or a new address system, the S42 system.
02:35 They've came up with solutions for that so that customers of the system can find their addresses easily and so on.
02:40 It seems to be one of the issues we have.
02:41 Noise pollution is there for everybody.
02:43 They've come up with ways in which we're going to manage, measure and report that.
02:46 And of course, personalized health monitoring and advisory solutions.
02:51 All of these things were sorted out, solved and addressed by local developers.
02:56 The Ministry of Digital Transformation is inviting members of the public to pitch potential data solutions to our everyday issues.
03:05 Developers will receive funding for successful projects and retain their intellectual rights.
03:12 Vanessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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