The Inclusive Agenda

  Cybersecurity, and the Caribbean                                     Mitigating the risks to growth in the era of digital transformation   March 20 th , 2021                                                                                 The digital economy is the new primary economic value creator for civilization, the disruption being caused by the 4 th Industrial Revolution has, without doubt, been accelerated by COVID-19.   The world has changed forever, and if you’re standing there flatfooted waiting for the old world to come back, you will be left behind.   Adaptation, agility, digital transformation is the new normal, so either digitize-or-die.   As globalization is sped up by digital, an estimated 70% of new value created over the next decade will be based on digitally enabled platform business models, according to the World Economic Forum on Global Issues.   However, while ever-advancing technology has the potential to enable new value creation

  Locally Inclusive Hospitality (LIH) Technology… the right path for Grenada’s tourism-based economy Updated March 1, 2021 I recently read an insightful article in NOW Grenada titled  “ Grenada Tourism: Why are we killing the goose? ”  by Brian Samuel.  The article essentially argued, correctly, in my view that Grenada’s tourism economy’s future should not be towards a low-end mass-market mega-resort growth agenda. But instead, a higher-end tourism growth model would be optimal. Samuel described projects like the Chinese-backed tourism one at Levera, a pristine beach location to the north of the island; and another at Mount Hartman, which is a pristine National Park, by Range Developments. Those projects are a giant move in the wrong direction Samuel argues. To his point, if one takes the time to examine the global tourism landscape, they’ll see that Samuel’s fundamental thesis makes sense. The projects as describe