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Contact: Rose Blenman
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) - Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
officials today refined a wide-ranging strategy to be presented to Ministers
responsible for Information and Communication Technologies in Barbados on
Friday, 15 October. A major element of the strategy urges a business approach by
CARICOM Member States to the planning and management of the ICC 2007 Cricket
World Cup, to maximize its financial potential.
In a one-day preparatory session for Friday’s meeting of Ministers, the
officials considered the CARICOM Secretariat’s recommendations to use the
preparation process for the ICC World Cup 2007 as “a giant canvas on which to
paint a model of how small countries could benefit from technology.
During their upcoming meeting on Friday, the Ministers responsible for
Information and Communication Technologies are expected to consider mandating
the appropriate regional and national institutions to articulate an e-vision and
strategy for the ICC Cricket World Cup Action Plan, covering logistics
management and venue scheduling, e-commerce for global ticket sales and
merchandising. Other ICT-based world cup applications will include integrated
tour/ticket packages; television broadcasting and web streaming.
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