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Kayon Wallace (second left), Flow Jamaica’s Director, Communications and Stakeholder Engagement, interacts with social media influencers Quite Perry (left), Tanaania (right) and Singh Zima during the company’s Safer Internet Day (SID) 2021 Virtual Teen Summit which was streamed live from the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday.
Social media influencers encouraged internet users to be responsible online, during the ‘Influencers’ Roundtable’ segment of Flow Foundation’s Safer Internet Day (SID) Virtual Teen Summit earlier this week.
Quite Perry, a popular figure on social media platforms, urged users to “hold yourself responsible” whether sharing posts on their feeds or responding to posts while leading off a discussion that centred around the global SID theme, ‘Together for a Better Internet’.
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Jamaica could potentially see new operator Rock Mobile enter its telecoms market with a former banking executive at the helm after enquiries were made with the country’s regulator on new entrant market conditions.
The Jamaica Gleaner reported, former head of Scotiabank Jamaica Bruce Bowen and his wife Suzanne Fernando-Bowen, contacted the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) in response to its Spectrum Cap Consultation launched last year, to enquire on the equal distribution of spectrum to enable new market entrants.
Security company Guardsman Group has formed a new company called iProtect through which it will distribute wireless security and home or office monitoring systems targeted at residential clients and business operators on a tight budget. Guardsman now has 26 companies listed as subsidiaries under the group, some of which deal in home and business surveillance systems. But the move into the remote monitoring and management of appliances and systems, such as lighting and air conditioning units, will be a first for the company, which spent US$1 million to build out the iProtect operation. Guardsman is upbeat about the prospects of the business – which it says its research shows opens access to a $2-billion market – and has already entered into discussions with a local developer of residential units and an insurance company to increase its chances of connecting with its targeted market, managing director of iProtect and director of Guardsman Group Renee Menzies-McCallum told the
KINGSTON: ICT solutions provider, C&W Business Jamaica continues to enable the response to the pandemic for Government and businesses across Jamaica. Its work spans the technology backbone for the Government’s health and educational responses to COVID-19 and enables thousands of Jamaicans to work from home. “It’s heart-warming to know that our network and tailor-made ICT solutions are making a difference in the lives of many Jamaicans. Our team is motivated by this fact. We’re thankful that our solutions support our Government’s efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, make it possible for students to access virtual learning platforms, and even help the entertainment industry to reach new audiences and thrive through online events,” said Stephen Price, Country Manager for Flow Jamaica & C&W Business Jamaica.