Trinidadian Laurie Voss: unbreaking the internet
In March 2016, the Internet shook, when a small, fairly straightforward, but widely used snippet of JavaScript code disappeared from the...
Five Caribbean artists in the brave new digital world
As with every other field of human endeavour, the computer and information technology have revolutionised art at so many levels that the...
Troy Weekes: “We too can be creators”
As a young man growing up in St Philip, which is the south-eastern side of Barbados, most evenings I would sit down on the verandah and...
Have internet, will travel
It’s difficult — and probably futile — to determine which, among all human activities, has been most altered by the Internet, but...
Niven Narain: smarter medicine
When he was thirteen years old, Niven Narain lost his grandmother to cancer. “I watched her go through nine months that were just...
Patrick Hosein: the quiet innovator
We use the World Wide Web and our cellular phones, frequently simultaneously, like recently evolved appendages. We can barely imagine going...
Get it while it’s hot: Barbados’ solar energy revolution
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of...
Are you listening? A decade of Global Voices
In late January this year, a group of several hundred self-described netizens — loyal “citizens” of the Internet — will assemble in...
