Residents of the St. Joseph area are being given the opportunity to enhance their standard of living with the opening of an Information and Communications Technology Centre in the area.
Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for St. Joseph, Terrence Deyalsingh, says soon every job, every endeavour, every service will have a technological component.
“If we don’t bring technology to communities that don’t have it, you will be left behind, and the social ills that we have now will just get worse.”
Minister Deyalsingh was speaking at the Opening Ceremony for an Information Communications Technology Centre in the Maitagual community.
“What this does is make sure these children, these children, their future is guaranteed so there is no technological divide between the have and the have nots. You are now the haves.”
The Ministry of Digital Transformation’s National Chief Digital Officer, Wayne Nakhid, said these Community Access Centres are changing lives.
“This is our eighteenth Access Centre that we are opening and I can promise you, well again, the community at large that come, let’s say, March, April next year we will have at least twelve other Access Centres opened in Trinidad and Tobago.”
Mr. Nakhid shared some of the services which will be available at the new Access Centre.
“This facility will provide access to a suite of services designed to meet the diverse needs of individuals and groups. These services include access to high speed internet for research, education, and business development, training programmes in essential digital skills to empower job seekers, students, and entrepreneurs.”
The Ministry’s National Chief Digital Officer said the training and technological services at the Access Centres are free and available to all area residents.