The 21st century is characterized by the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICTS) and their assimilation into all aspects of political economy. The Caribbean is characterised by a heavy infusion ...

The mobile phone has emerged as the most widely-used communication device of the present era, with penetration levels among both men and women exceeding 94% in Jamaica. The cellular phone is also widely used across all ...

This country report explores telephony usage in poor communities in Trinidad and Tobago. It follows a number of similar studies covering Africa (Waverman, Meschi and Fuss 2005), India (Sharma ...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is seeking to provide support to the Governments of Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados in researching the potential for employing renewable energy ...

The aim of this study is to construct the framework of a small computable general equilibrium model with applications to climate change, to evaluate the impact of carbon taxes on GDP and emissions, and to study the sensitivity ...

En los últimos años los servicios financieros han venido adaptándose a los cambios tecnológicos globales, ante su alta demanda transaccional y la necesidad de crear confianza y seguridad en las operaciones que realizan sus ...

The Planning Meeting of Partners was organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, the Observatory for the Information Society in Latin ...

Accessing to sites, pages and web applications from mobile devices right now is very important due to the need for user mobility and the variety in capacity and technology of the devices. The mobile web, whose main ...