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first published week of: 10/16/2017
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), delivers the keynote address during the opening ceremony for the two-day Jamaica Geographic Information System (GIS) User Conference held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday, October 10.
( Yhomo Hutchinson)
Prime Minister [Jamaica], the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is encouraging greater use of geographic information system (GIS) technology across all sectors in order to spur higher levels of economic growth and development.
He contends that despite Jamaica’s use of the technology over the past 25 years, its full potential remains untapped.
“It is certainly accepted by the Government… definitely at the administrative and executive levels. But we have still not yet moved to the point of utilising the technology where we leverage (its) predictive powers… which is to use it in a way to either prevent things from happening or facilitating things we want to happen,” the Prime Minister noted.
He called for its utilisation at the decision-making level “as a management and planning tool”. He was delivering the keynote address at the opening ceremony for the inaugural two-day Jamaica GIS User Conference held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (October 10).
Mr. Holness said the Government has been making significant investments in using GIS technology to spur Jamaica’s growth and development while seeking to reposition the country as a knowledge-based economy.
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