Smart Seas Toolkit Assessment Workshop

February 16, 2023
Venue: Online via Zoom Videoconferencing

The Smart Seas Toolkit is aimed at increasing the resilience of Caribbean small-scale fishers through information and communications technologies, with emphasis on the maritime communications enabling environment.

During this workshop, the Smart Seas team will present and solicit feedback on the Project’s online toolkit, which comprises resources aimed at increasing the resilience of Caribbean small-scale fishers through information and communications technologies, with emphasis on the maritime communications enabling environment.

These resources include, but are not limited to: 

  • A UN compliance checklist 
  • Maritime band radio licensing form template 
  • Guidelines to specify Sea Area A1 
  • Nominal VHF-DSC radio curricula for small-scale fishers and coast station operators 
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Provisional Agenda (Download)

 

Time Item Presenter Role
9:00 AM Opening Tariq Mohammed Radio Engineer, Smart Seas Project Team
9:02 AM Welcome remarks Cleveland Thomas Area Representative, Caribbean Region, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Rodney Taylor Secretary General, Caribbean Telecommunication Union (CTU)
Cynthia ReddockDownes Chief Executive Officer, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT)
9:10 AM Group Picture Daniel Goitia Radio Engineer, Smart Seas Project Team
9:12 AM Presentation of Toolkit Artefacts Renasha Cassar Tariq Mohammed Radio Engineer, Smart Seas Project Team
9:25 AM Interactive Stakeholder Assessment Renasha Cassar,
Tariq Mohammed,
Tyler Seudath,
Daniel Goitia		 Radio Engineers, Smart Seas Project Team
10:30 AM BREAK
10:35 AM Interactive Stakeholder Artefact Assessment Renasha Cassar,
Tariq Mohammed,
Tyler Seudath,
Daniel Goitia		 Radio Engineers, Smart Seas Project Team
11:20 AM Q & A Renasha Cassar Radio Engineer, Smart Seas Project Team
11:45 AM Next Steps & Closure Kim Mallalieu Technical Advisor (pro bono), Smart Seas Project

Dr. Kim Mallalieu

Dr Kim Mallalieu (BS MIT, MS UR and PhD UCL) is Deputy Chair of the Board of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) where she served as an inaugural member.   Dr Mallalieu is also the leader of the Communication Systems Group and a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of the West Indies, where she is a past Head of Department, and developer of the Master’s in Telecommunications Regulation and Policy, MRP (Telecommunications), having coordinated its delivery to participants from over thirty developing countries around the world.   As Principal Investigator of the Caribbean ICT Research Programme (CIRP) and founding member of Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información (DIRSI),  Dr. Mallalieu is engaged in multidisciplinary action research on context appropriate strategies for the purposeful application of information and communications technologies (ICT) for human good; with an emphasis on building the resilience of underserved populations. In other capacities she has led national, regional and international initiatives variously designed to build capacity in ICT policy, regulation, development, application and use.   Dr Mallalieu is a regular speaker, chair and multichannel contributor to international fora on topics relating to development-focused technology, policy and regulation. As a keen advocate for gender equality for development, she is the Vice Chair, Americas Region, on the Advisory Board of the Network of Women in the Development Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); and her works include the ITU/ETC report on Women, ICT and emergency telecommunications.   Dr Mallalieu otherwise has a rich service portfolio, having sat on several commissions, committees and panels at regional, national and institutional levels in operational as well as advisory roles. She is a Fulbright Fellow and the recipient of local, regional and international teaching and research awards, and other awards of distinction. Dr Mallalieu is a licensed amateur radio as well as GMDSS short range operator, and member of Radio Emergency Associated Communication Teams (REACT).

Renasha Cassar

Renasha Cassar holds a BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and currently works as a radio engineer consultant under the SST project. Her areas of interest include the use of ICTs for development, bridging the digital divide, programming and IoT.

Daniel Goitia

Daniel Goitia is a radio engineer consultant for the ITU and PhD. candidate at The University of the West Indies. He received his BSc and MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of the West Indies and is currently a Teaching Assistant at the UWI St. Augustine Campus. His interests include wireless communication with an emphasis on IoT, 5G and Open-RAN.

Tariq Mohammed

Tariq is a radio engineer consultant for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a Generation Connect Youth Envoy for the ITU’s Americas region, as well as an MPhil student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the West Indies.   Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Tariq has an avid interest in tackling issues such as digital exclusion and ICT inaccessibility through multi-dimensional approaches which span both technical and social domains and is keenly interested in applying his knowledge and skills to further national and regional development within the ICT sector. His interests also include the development of telecommunications policies and regulations to create a more inclusive digital future.

Tyler Seudath

Tyler is a radio engineer consultant for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is currently an MASc student in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialization in Communications systems at the University of the West Indies (UWI).  He has a passion for Telecommunications and hopes to make a meaningful impact in this sector.

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