Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to po­si­tion it­self as a re­gion­al leader in dig­i­tal in­no­va­tion re­ceived an in­ter­na­tion­al boost this week af­ter Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Sen­a­tor Do­minic Smith was in­vit­ed to join a glob­al board fo­cused on ad­vanc­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion.

Smith re­ceived the in­vi­ta­tion dur­ing high-lev­el dis­cus­sions with of­fi­cials from the In­ter­na­tion­al Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Union (ITU) at the ITU Re­gion­al De­vel­op­ment Fo­rum for the Amer­i­c­as and the Re­gion­al Work­shop on Reg­u­la­to­ry In­no­va­tion and Sand­box held in Carta­ge­na, Colom­bia, on Wednes­day.

The min­is­ter led a del­e­ga­tion that in­clud­ed Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Cory Bel­fon and Ex­ec­u­tive Strate­gic Ad­vi­sor for AI and Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Nico­las Mal­oney. The team met with Di­rec­tor of the ITU Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion De­vel­op­ment Bu­reau, Dr Cos­mas Luck­yson Zavaza­va, to ex­plore ar­eas of col­lab­o­ra­tion aimed at strength­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dig­i­tal agen­da.