A university lecturer is suggesting that one tactic to ease the apprehension in academic circles that students will use artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat is to incorporate it in the teaching p.
WITH the Government trumpeting plans to establish eGov Jamaica Limited as the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Authority by the next financial year, concerns are again being raised.
tTech s Marketing and HR Manager Gillian Murray.
tTech Limited has announced the virtual staging of TechCon 2021, which is scheduled for May 18 to 19, 2021.
This highly anticipated conference is its fourth staging and is expected to bring a wealth of knowledge surrounding the impact of the pandemic and the post-pandemic outlook for businesses, data protection and compliance as well as cybersecurity requirements.
The conference has already attracted a diverse line up of local and international speakers. The two-day line up includes international speakers, Twyla Pateman, Senior Information Security Consultant at Hitachi Systems Security; Kenneth McGee, Research Fellow, CIO at Info-Tech Research Group and Dalton Fowles, Country Manager Jamaica and Trinidad at Mastercard; to name a few.
Daryl Vaz
Acutely aware that the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET) became known for controversy under the last Government, new MSET Minister Daryl Vaz is determined to shed its scandal tag.
“It has not missed me in any way that this Ministry is the make it or break it for me, despite the fact that some may feel that I am not that smart,” Vaz quipped at a press conference on Wednesday.
It is against that background that he has named a team of high-profile figures from business and academia to the boards of public bodies under his watch. Metry Seaga, Jacqueline Sharp, Professor Ishenkumba Khawa and Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee are among those chosen to advise and lead the entities which include Petrojam, which has been more associated with scandal than performance in recent years.