NTRC’s 4th Annual i2 Competition officially launched.
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has launched its 4th annual Ideas and Innovation Competition (i2 Competition) on Friday September 16, 2016 at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, Glen Campus.
In her overview of the competition, NTRC’s Consumer & Public Relations Manager, Ms. Keisha Gurley outlined that the competition seeks to get young people involved in doing something for their country while being creative. She further explained that the competition also promotes learning and inspiration into entrepreneurship when the students take on the challenge of developing their own innovative idea or mobile application. She added that due to the high usage of technology in today’s world, the NTRC believes that the youth’s ideas can be very beneficial to Vincentians and other users worldwide.
Also, addressing the launch was NTRC’s Director, Mr. Apollo Knights. Mr. Knights outlined that the competition aims to get young Vincentians inclined to developing apps as many persons have smartphones with multiple apps installed, however, only a small percentage has installed apps developed by Vincentians. Furthermore, to encourage students, Mr. Knights outlined that the largest hotel chain and taxi service are Uber and Airbnb respectively which are mobile applications.
Also making presentations at the launch were Carlon Browne of Digicel, Nyron Collis—last year’s winner in the Secondary School Idea category; and Cenus Hinds, past participant in the 2013 i2 Competition and CEO of a local app Konservi.