Government needs to move with much greater haste to fashion a coherent national information and communications technology (ICT) policy if the various sectors of the society are to begin to maximise “the considerable benefits to be derived…,” President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds has said.
“Government must work on policies that will help us execute the programmes that are necessary to develop Guyana. Once you establish the ICT infrastructure you have to establish what you are putting on that infrastructure in terms of the services that you are going to offer. We need to begin to articulate what it is that we are going to put on the e-governance network. Building an e-governance network is fine. When that gets done you need to put something on it,” Hinds told Stabroek Business.
Hinds, a vocal advocate of the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector, said that even as the era of open competition in the
