Digitalization crucial to SIDS’ COVID-19 recovery, long-term development
VIENNA, 12 January 2021 - The upscaling of digital technologies presents a host of opportunities for small island developing states (SIDS) to diversify their economies, boost manufacturing, gain greater access to global value chains, and improve disaster preparedness. However, significant obstacles remain, including inadequate digital infrastructure, insufficient training opportunities for women and young people, a growing digital divide, and a lack of data and policy knowledge. That’s according to an expert panel convened for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit
Ralf Bredel, Chief of the Asia-Pacific Regional Programme at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), said that SIDS share common challenges such as limited resource bases, long distances to primary markets, and vulnerability to climate change.
New Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) Chairman Francine Blackman. Photo courtesy CCREEE.
Francine Blackman has been elected as chairman of the executive board of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE).
Blackman previously held the post of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
The election was announced in a release today (December 18).
Blackman takes over from Dominica’s Ambassador to the US and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States Ambassador Dr Vince Henderson who first chaired the CCREEE Executive Board following the commencement of the Centre’s operational phase in 2018.
New Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) Chairman Francine Blackman. Photo courtesy CCREEE.
Permanent Secretary in Barbados’ Ministry of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Francine Blackman has been elected as chairman of the executive board of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE).
The election was announced in a release today.
Blackman takes over from Dominica’s Ambassador to the US and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States Ambassador Dr Vince Henderson who first chaired the CCREEE Executive Board following the commencement of the Centre’s operational phase in 2018.
Henderson was instrumental in the establishment of the CCREEE, coordinating with SIDS DOCK (an initiative among member countries of the Alliance of Small Island States to help SIDS transform their energy sectors and address adaptation to climate change), the United Nations Industrial Development Organisati
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