Caribbean: Enhanced skills needed for expanded ICT use in disaster risk management - Report

“It’s clear that lives and money can be saved if Caribbean countries can make more effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) systems in disaster planning and response, but much more attention needs to be given to the development of the expertise required to implement these systems and to keep them running. It is therefore important to find ways to increase the size of the ICT talent pool in the Caribbean, and to support opportunities for disaster management professionals to improve their technological skills,” said Robert Crane Williams, co-author of the recently published study, Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Risk Management in the Caribbean in an interview with SKNVibes...