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Chief Justice, Bryan Sykes, has welcomed the investment by the Universal Service Fund (USF) in boosting the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure of the courts, as a further step towards enhancing access to justice for Jamaicans.
He said that equipping courts with the necessary technology, coupled with the training of staff, will improve the efficiency of courtroom proceedings.
âCOVID-19 (coronavirus) has brought home to us how important technology is, and so that is really the way of the future,â he said.
Chief Justice, Bryan Sykes, has welcomed the investment by the Universal Service Fund (USF) in boosting the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure of the courts, as a further step towards enhancing access to justice for Jamaicans.
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Daniel Dawes (File photo)
The Universal Service Fund (USF) on Thursday handed over a cheque valued at $20 million to the Court Administration Division (CAD) for the procurement of equipment to improve the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure of the island’s courts.
The cheque was handed over at a contract-signing ceremony held at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston.
Director of Court Administration at the CAD, Tricia Cameron-Anglin, and Chief Executive Officer at the USF, Daniel Dawes, signed the contract on behalf of both entities.
“The donation will provide much needed ICT equipment to boost the technological capacity of the courts to respond to the needs of the digital era,” said Cameron-Anglin.
Image: Courtesy of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine today launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities.
Built with support from Gilead Sciences, Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the CDC Foundation, the tracker is a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race and ethnicity, sex and age, from a whole-country view down to the county level.
What’s more, the Health Equity Tracker allows users to view different conditions and determinants that have led to unequal COVID-19 outcomes, including COPD, diabetes, poverty and uninsured rates. It can also be used to compare outcomes in different locations.