{"id":337088,"date":"2025-02-18T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=337088"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:04:00","slug":"team-from-uae-to-visit-dominica-to-assist-in-digitization-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/team-from-uae-to-visit-dominica-to-assist-in-digitization-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Team from UAE to visit Dominica to assist in digitization efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_337089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337089\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-337089\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Prime-Minister-Skerrit--642x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that a team from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will visit Dominica next month to assist in the island\u2019s efforts towards digitization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He made the disclosure during a press conference held at the Ministry of Finance Conference Room on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prime minister attended a summit in the UAE last week where focus was placed on innovation, tourism, \u00a0climate change, and financing of global initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, this participation highlighted the need for continued multilateralism in addressing global issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the participation in the UAE was very important as he had the opportunity to \u00a0interact with leaders and business people, \u201cand to let them know that, yes, we may have some vulnerabilities brought on by climate change and external shocks, but there are opportunities for investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the things that we got off, from the Government of the UAE:\u00a0 they will be sending a team to us in March of this year to look at our efforts towards the sensitization of Dominica and to see where the gaps are in our strategy and our national plan and to see how they can assist us\u2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is of the view that Dominica should go deeper in terms of its digitization project, \u201cand so they will be coming in to look at this and the whole idea of using technology in every sphere of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skerrit continued, \u201cAt the airports, at the hospitals, in our schools&#8211;not only telling a child that you have a laptop, but how do you use that laptop?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cWe have to come to a point where technology is properly immersed in society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that a team from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will visit Dominica next month to assist in the island\u2019s efforts towards digitization. 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