Impressed by the talents that exist within the local Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, one overseas based Guyanese, who has demonstrated prowess on the world stage, has committed his efforts toward the development of the sector locally. Dr Jason Mars, co-founder and Chief Exe...
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Advancing ICT Education through digital exhibitions THE walls that have existed which affected the evolution of Guyana’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector are crumbling as more and more companies, groups and organisations join the Government in transforming the country’s techno...
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Young Guyanese seeking to break into entrepreneurship in the digital industry will be afforded the opportunity to place their ‘offerings’ on display at a Developers Exhibition (Dev X) from August 4 – 31, 2017. The event will allow for both online and face-to-face participation with the latter being...
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“LIVE YOUR dream. Be as crazy as you possibly can be, ignore the status quo, set your goals and go after them with blind determination,” Social Entrepreneur, Eldon Marks said as he addressed a room full of entrepreneurs and software developers in a collaborative work space he had developed with his...
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STARTUP Grind Georgetown Guyana successfully pulled off its first fireside chat and networking forum with entrepreneurs in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), calling for Guyanese to embrace local software developers. Startup Grind is the largest independent startup commun...
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WITH a passion for entrepreneurship and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), a group of budding entrepreneurs have taken up the challenge of creating a start-up community in Guyana. It all started when Start-up Grind, the largest independent start-up community actively educating, inspir...
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Version75 Solutions (V75), the team that recently won the first Hackathon held in Guyana, strongly believes that software development can become a viable and thriving industry in this country. Speaking with this publication yesterday, V75 team member, Eldon Marks, said that there is a sustainable...
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Having endured 48-hours of intense coding, Version75 Solutions on Sunday emerged as the winners of the first ‘Hackathon,’ which was organised by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre last weekend. Also known as a Hack Fest, or a Code Fest, hackathons are m...
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While serving as the Head of Department (HOD) of Computer Science at the University of Guyana between 2010 and 2012, I conceptualized and spearheaded two installments of an expo out of the Department to address the gap between academia and industry. Under the caption of "Optimizing Our Tomor...
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