Do­minic Smith, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, has called for a new era of col­lab­o­ra­tion among gov­ern­ment, in­dus­try, acad­e­mia and civ­il so­ci­ety to un­lock the full po­ten­tial of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion for the ben­e­fit of cit­i­zens.

Speak­ing at the AM­CHAM T&T Tech Hub Is­lands Sum­mit ear­li­er to­day, Smith said Trinidad and To­ba­go has reached a piv­otal mo­ment in its dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney, where suc­cess will be mea­sured by the im­pact tech­nol­o­gy has on peo­ple's lives.

“The ques­tion is no longer whether we should em­brace tech­nol­o­gy, but whether we are us­ing tech­nol­o­gy to cre­ate mean­ing­ful change. Tech­nol­o­gy has val­ue on­ly when it de­liv­ers mean­ing­ful out­comes for peo­ple,” he said.