NTRC launches 3rd Annual i2 Competition.
On Friday September 18, 2015, The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission launched its third annual ideas and innovation competition dubbed as the i2 Competition. The launch was held at the Glen campus of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College where students, stakeholders of the NTRC, partners in the competition and Government officials were in attendance.
Miss Keisha Gurley, USF operations officer at the NTRC and also project coordinator for the competition gave an overview of the competition. Miss Gurley told the gathering that the i2 Competition seeks to primarily focus on the importance of idea creation and the possibilities that can develop from the seeds of innovation that are planted in the minds of our young people. She added that the competition’s main purpose is to develop the entrepreneurial skills of our youth by looking at the needs in our society and finding ICT solutions for them. Such initiatives can have direct economic benefits for our country while making us more efficient in what we do on daily basis. Miss Gurley indicated that currently, our regulations do not allow the NTRC to use funds from the Universal Service Fund (USF) for the development of apps, however, the regulations are being revised to facilitate this. Once these regulations are in place, the NTRC promises that funds will be used to implement some of the innovative ideas and applications put forward in the i2 competition.