Education Minister on Thursday afternoon announced that Cabinet has agreed on a project to significantly improve wireless coverage to primary and secondary schools.
00:00The Study Cabinet has agreed to the upgrade of wireless access solutions for primary schools and secondary schools.
00:10This government has prioritized the integration of technology in schools.
00:15And this is to improve teacher training, to modernize the curriculum, and to prepare our students for the future.
00:21The use of technology in education allows for improved student productivity and leads to enhanced learning outcomes and efficiency.
00:33This project, implementing an upgrade of the wireless solutions at primary and secondary schools, has a dual aim.
00:43It seeks to address the inadequate wireless connectivity across the nation's schools through the expansion of bandwidth at 125 government and government-assisted secondary schools
00:56and the installation of network access points at the 454 government and government-assisted primary schools.
01:06So, as part of the project, the Ministry will establish a national minimum internet bandwidth standard for all secondary schools,
01:16setting the baseline service at 500 megabytes per second download and 250 megabytes per second upload.
01:27And, in addition to the installation of network access points at all 454 government and government-assisted primary schools,
01:38there will be a structured implementation of the cabling and commercial-grade wireless access points.
01:47And, what does this do for us at the Ministry of Education?
01:51It will enhance and allow the Ministry of Education to remotely monitor and manage wireless access across all schools, ensuring functionality.
04:21Though AI has great potential, there has also been the emergence of AI-driven misinformation campaigns that threaten social trust and public order.
04:33And so, the government of Trinidad Tobago, in its wisdom, has put together the development of a national cybersecurity and AI safety framework.
04:45and the objectives of this framework are as follows.
04:50The public should note that we are now and have established a whole government approach
04:57to cyber resilience, scam prevention and AI governance.
05:03We continue to incorporate international best practices for AI safety, transparency
05:11and the ethical use of emerging technologies.
05:16Further, the implementation of a national awareness campaign on scams using artificial intelligence likenesses,
05:26also known as deepfakes and digital impersonation.
05:31This committee is meant to strengthen capacity within law enforcement to investigate and prosecute
05:39cybersecurity and AI-driven fraud, and of course, to enhance partnership with financial institutions,
05:47telcos and tech platforms to proactively block fraudulent schemes.
05:53Now, the makeup of this inter-ministerial committee has been one that the government has contemplated,
06:01given the information that we have received, and representatives of each of these are as follows.
06:07The Ministry of Homeland Security, the Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Attorney General,
06:14the Office of the Prime Minister, the Cyber and Social Media Unit,
06:19Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago,
06:24and of course, the Trinidad and Tobago Cybersecurity Incident Response Team, also known as TCCCERT.
06:32And so, the above-mentioned inter-ministerial steering committee on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
06:40will serve as a national coordinating body for cybersecurity and AI-related policy, incident response,
06:48and legislative alignment, as well as report quarterly on emerging threats, legislative gaps, and recommended interventions.
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