Industry leaders across various sectors have reiterated the need for the creation of policies that encourage the implementation and use of advanced technologies to enable economic diversification which they believe is critical to the transformation of the local economy.
Speaking at the recently concluded Economic Growth Forum series held by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) under its Growth Inducement Programme, leaders from the information communication technology (ICT), business, banking and trade industries said that digitisation through ICT was useful to the diversification process.
Vice-president of marketing at the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (Jampro) Gabriel Heron and deputy president for the Jamaica Technology and Digital Alliance (JTDA), formerly the Jamaica Computer Society, Jason Scott together highlighted nine industries which they believe could become more productive and economically impactful from using cutting-edge technologies.
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