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The Port of Spain Commitment is an agreement to pursue sustainable Digital Transformation in the Caribbean .
Caribbean leaders comm Transformation and new data center
Port of Spain , Trinidad – setting for landmark digital summit
Leaders in the Caribbean have agreed on Digital Transformation in the region , including a new government cloud and regional data center .
Transformation ( MDT ) on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and in partnership with the American Development Bank and Caribbean Telecommunications Union ( CTU ).
Nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors have signed the Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration – an agreement to pursue sustainable Digital Transformation in the Caribbean .
The commitment will see the creation of a regional government cloud using existing and planned data centers in the Caribbean and establish a new regional data center .
The agreement covers three key areas for Digital Transformation : infrastructural ecosystem , cybersecurity , and digital identity and interoperability .
The commitment applies to 11 countries , including Trinidad and Tobago , Antigua and Barbuda , Barbados , Belize , Curacao , Dominica , Grenada , Haiti , Suriname , St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines .
The commitment was signed during an Executive Leadership Session hosted by the Ministry of Digital
The group also agreed to develop a regional computer security incident response team , improve
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