Caribbean technology policy, patiently explained.
ICT Pulse Podcast treats technology as public infrastructure, economic strategy, and regional responsibility across the Caribbean. Through interviews and community chats, Michelle Marius steers detailed conversations on telecoms, AI, data sovereignty, cyber threats, and practical implementation.
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ICT Pulse Podcast is a Caribbean technology policy show with a clear public-interest center. It treats ICT as something that shapes economies, governments, culture, education, security, and everyday resilience. The format is usually interview-led, with Michelle Marius opening from a broad regional frame before narrowing into the practical details that determine whether digital ambition becomes usable change. That gives the show a patient rhythm. It is not built around hot takes or gadget enthusiasm. Recent episodes use Guyana’s telecoms and ICT sector to examine how government demand, private-sector capacity, skills development, and oil-driven growth can influence digital transformation. A conversation on technology as an export asks whether Caribbean countries should only measure themselves against advanced markets, or also recognize the value of solutions built for states with similar development conditions. Cybersecurity coverage stays close to operational reality. Small businesses are encouraged to think about downtime, recovery plans, critical services, and the cost of being unprepared before an incident occurs. AI is treated as more than a trend. Episodes connect it to Caribbean sustainability, data science careers, local research, girls and women in ICT, virtual reality, cultural preservation, and the need to build indigenous capability. The show also gives attention to less familiar but important governance ideas, including data embassies, digital sovereignty, certified data centers, and legal or diplomatic arrangements for national critical data. Community chat episodes widen the lens, bringing Caribbean media, community networks, Haiti, underserved communities, arts, and culture into the technology conversation. The tone remains careful and explanatory. Guests are allowed to develop ideas at length, while the host regularly restates and clarifies the stakes for the region. That makes ICT Pulse Podcast especially useful for listeners who want policy, infrastructure, and development connected in plain language. Its strength is regional specificity. It understands that Caribbean technology futures are shaped not only by innovation, but by capacity, governance, resilience, markets, and culture.
Made for: For listeners interested in Caribbean ICT, digital development, cybersecurity, AI, telecoms, and technology’s role in regional resilience. It suits policymakers, technologists, educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and regional observers who want detail without hype.
What sets it apart: ICT Pulse Podcast stands apart by keeping Caribbean conditions at the center of technical conversations. It connects strategy to implementation, asking how ICT issues, infrastructure, skills, markets, and institutions actually work across the region.
A deep dive into topical Information and Communication Technology (ICT) issues from a Caribbean perspective, through interviews and group discussions with specialists, experts and people trying to make a difference in the tech space.New episodes are released every Wednesday. Show notes are available at www.ict-pulse.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
ICT Pulse Podcast connects Caribbean technology policy to the practical demands of resilience, economic development, skills, and internet governance.
ICT Pulse Podcast treats technology as public infrastructure with consequences for Caribbean economies and institutions. Michelle Marius leads interviews and panel discussions that connect technical questions to policy choices, national resilience, careers, and regional…
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Guyana's digital direction is framed through public services, private-sector capacity, and room for new firms.
ICT Pulse's Know Your Neighbours series turns to Guyana, using the country's oil-driven economic boom as a backdrop for digital planning, public services, and private-sector capacity.
A clear, grounded look at Caribbean digital experience as a possible export strength.
Caribbean technology is often treated as something brought in from elsewhere. This episode flips that frame and asks what it would mean for technology, especially ICT goods and services, to become more of what the region sends out.
A practical Caribbean cybersecurity conversation about downtime, recovery, and why resilience takes planning, not assumptions.
Michelle Marius opens this second 2026 Expert Insights update with a Caribbean-centered look at cyber threats and security, joined again by Obika Geleno, who keeps the discussion practical and grounded.
A practical Caribbean discussion of data science, portfolios, and work ready skills in an AI shaped world.
Michelle Marius hosts an all female panel for International Women’s Day and the continuing focus on girls in ICT, then looks back at a 2023 conversation to ask what has shifted since then.
A practical look at how data embassies could harden Caribbean digital sovereignty.
The episode presents digital sovereignty in the Caribbean as both an infrastructure problem and a diplomatic one, following Michelle Marius and Dimitris Heraklios from the basic idea of a data embassy to the question of what makes it resilient.
A grounded discussion of internet governance, language access, and Caribbean perspectives online.
ICANN's president and CEO joins ICT Pulse for a clear, grounded conversation about internet governance, technical identifiers, and who gets fully represented online.
A measured conversation about how the Caribbean can shape its internet future.
Michelle Marius closes her 2024 internet series with Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, in a conversation that keeps its focus on what the Caribbean wants from the internet as it evolves.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
Nigel Cassimire discusses evolving internet governance for an inclusive digital future, focusing on the upcoming Caribbean Internet Governance Forum in Cuba.
Raquel Seville discusses her journey from corporate CEO to founder of Dataffluent, a data science company providing financial insights for Caribbean and emerging markets.
An interview with Pinaman Owusu-Banahene, founder of ADJOAA, discussing her journey in building an African tech ecosystem for fashion and sustainability.
Host Michelle Marius interviews Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, to conclude a series on the internet's future.
Host Michelle Marius interviews Kurtis Lindqvist, the new CEO of ICANN, during the Caribbean Telecommunications Union's ICT Week in Jamaica.
ICT Pulse's Michelle Marius and guest Lance Hinds frame Guyana's telecoms and ICT landscape through the country's oil-driven economic surge.
ICT Pulse Podcast revisits Michelle Marius’s 2024 St.
ICT Pulse Podcast episode 393 is a 2026 Expert Insights update on Caribbean cyber threats and security with Michelle Marius and returning guest Obika Geleno of Fujitsu Caribbean.
A panel discussion on Caribbean media's digital challenges, community networks, and the internet's influence on arts and culture.
Amanda Zilla discusses using AI and VR technologies to preserve Caribbean culture and legacy through the DreamLab cluster at the University of the West Indies.
ICT Pulse Podcast host Michelle Marius brings together Dr.
ICT Pulse Podcast host Michelle Marius speaks with Demetris Herakleous of ECLAC about the 2025 study “Data Embassies, an Innovative Approach to Strengthening Digital Responsibility in the Caribbean.” Herakleous defines a data embassy as a government’s “digital lifeboat” and links it to hurricanes, earthquakes, cyber incidents, and business continuity for ID, revenue, health, border management, and disaster response.
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Security expert Obika Gellineau discusses cyber threats and security in the Caribbean in an expert insight update.