The ACS and UNDP met to discuss ways to foster a digital community in the Caribbean
ACS Secretary General, H.E. Rodolfo Sabonge, held a meeting with H.E. Ugo Blanco, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative to leverage the collective capacities and competencies of the ACS and UNDP to facilitate the creation of a future focused and region wide-Caribbean Digital Culture and community to enhance resilience and address digital gaps by harnessing digitisation as an enabler of and platform for sustainable production and integrated development.
The meeting was also attended by ACS Chief Executive Coordinator, Tricia Barrow, Trade and Sustainable Development Advisor, Safiya Reid, and Advisor for Cooperation and Resource Mobilization, Lisa Douglas and UNDP Strategic Advisor, Ms. Kelly-Ann Phillips.
The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba, Curacao, (France on behalf of French Guiana, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin ), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Sint Maarten, (The Netherlands on behalf of Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius ), Turks and Caicos.