Minister Adrianes -CICA President Kees Barneveld and
Board Member
Dino Daal
The development of Curaçao as an Information Society is of crucial importance for our social and economic development as an autonomous nation. In the past some serious efforts towards becoming an Information Society were made. However, lately all these efforts seem to have come to a standstill and we need to get moving again.
download the ICT Manifest 2008 here
download the Dutch press bulletin here
- Evening with CICA with Mr. Maurice Adrieans
- Research ICT sector Curaçao completed
CICA completed a study on the ICT sector of Curaçao. One of the ways to approach the entrepreneurs in this sector was through an inquiry.
Another part of the study was to make an inventory of the organizations in the ICT industry, mainly using the information from the Chamber of Commerce. Since ICT organizations are scattered throughout different subsectors (such as "professional advice", "retail" etcetera) this proved to be eleborate and time consuming. The conslusion is that the ICT industry consists of approximately 100 companies and that approximately 2% of the labor force works for organizations in this industry. (Which by the way is below the international average). For further information please call 738-6299.
Download the presentation with an overview of the results.
- Evening with CICA: February 7, 2007.
The latest edition of "an evening with CICA" took place Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 in the Koetshuis of the Avila Beach Hotel.
The speaker was Mr. Frans Veltkamp, Head Product Group ICT Enschede, Director FACE. The topic of his presentation was:
“How to make your clients happy - and keep them that way”
The event took place at the koetshuis of the Avila Beach Hotel at 17:00 hrs.
As usual, afterwards there was ample opportunity to mix with the speaker and other ICT professionals during the happy hour.
- Evening with CICA: December 7, 2006
On December 7, 2006, the CICA board presented the results of their activities in 2006.
The emphasis this evening was on the results of the Logistical Hub Masterplan.
The Logical Hub Masterplan 2016. was presented in the Bestuurscollege and approved by November 1st. In a later stage, this plan has to connect to the overall Curaçao Masterplan.
The Logistical Hub Workgroup consists of 5 sub-groups, one of them is ICT, with CICA as the leader of this Sub Group. Kees Barneveld presented the results of this sub group so far and asked everyone who is interested to provide their input for this plan, which is of vital interest for the future of our industry.
- ICT and Education
Other topics presented and discussed that evening were:- Results of a Quick scan of the Curaçao ICT industry
- Feasibility study for a Curaçao / Latin Internet Exchange.
- Research ICT sector Curaçao completed
CICA completed a study on the ICT sector of Curaçao. One of the ways to approach the entrepreneurs in this sector was through an inquiry.
Another part of the study was to make an inventory of the organizations in the ICT industry, mainly using the information from the Chamber of Commerce. Since ICT organizations are scattered throughout different subsectors (such as "professional advice", "retail" etcetera) this proved to be eleborate and time consuming. The conslusion is that the ICT industry consists of approximately 100 companies and that approximately 2% of the labor force works for organizations in this industry. (Which by the way is below the international average). For further information please call 738-6299.
- Renewed governing board CICA starts of enthusiastically
The Curaçao Information and Communication Association (CICA) has entered the new governing board year with an almost entirely renewed composition of the governing board. Vice-president Alex Mollen as well as board member Gilbert Cijntje have left the board. Paul van Bladel of the University of the Netherlands Antilles is taking over the role as treasurer of former board member Stephan Romsom. Other board members are: Ronald Lieuw-Sjong who will again function this year as the secretary of CICA, Monique Raphaëla-Boezen and Chris Engels. Kees Barneveld extends once again in his role as president of CICA. Read More
• Check out pictures of an evening with CICA• Check out our latest edition of the CICA newsletter
- CICA Members Meeting, June 26 2005
CICA Celebrated it's 5th year of existence at the Koetshuis at Avila Beach Hotel. The celebration was precluded by a meeting in which we took a critical look at our purpose and achievements through the results of the Membership Survey.The Agenda for the membership meeting was:
1. Opening & welcome
2. Results of the membership survey and action plan for 2005/2006
3. Closure and drinksFor more information about the results of the meeting or the membership survey, contact us at info@cica.an.
- Evening with CICA May 26, 2005
The May edition of the "Evening with CICA" took place Thursday, May 26th, 19:30 at the Avila Beach Hotel. The speaker was trend watcher Richard Lamb. Richard was visiting Curacao for the project "Nederland gaat Digitaal op Curacao".
Click here for the pictures of the CICA Stimulation Awards (held at the Frater Aurelio MBO on May 21 2002)
Click here for the pictures of the delivery of the ICT manifest (download the manifest) to the minister
Our Position paper. Making the case for elimination of import duties on ICT equipment (Download this document in pdf format)