First Central American and Caribbean Conference on Insdutrial Engineering and Operations Management 15-16 June 2021

1. Vantz Brutus
CEO Nextep Communication
Teaching Graphic Design and Digital
Communication | June 16, 2021

2. First Central American and
Caribbean Conference on
Insdutrial Engineering and
Operations Management
Vantz BrutusCEO Nextep Communication

3. "InformationTechnology and Information Systems"
How Haiti can use
information technologies
as a lever for development?
ByVantz BrutusCEO Nextep Communication

4. • Haiti General Overview
• Structural Challenges
• Opportunities
• Perspective
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Presentation plan

5. General
Overview

6. Haiti Internet access, 37.3%
LAC average 64.13%
By Vantz Brutus CEO Nextep Communication
General Overview,
INTERNET
Statista 2020
79 percent of school-age children in Haiti do
not have an Internet connection at home,
according to a joint report released in December
2020 by UNICEF and the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU).

7. Haiti Energy 2019 45.4%
LAC average 92%
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General Overview,
ENERGY
World Bank | Dataworldbank.org

8. • Lack of political vision to make information technology a pole of economic
development;
• No framework law or regulation adapted to the telecommunications and
information technology sector.The only law in force dates from 1977;
• Lack of technological infrastructure. Haiti has only 8000km of fiber optics
for more than 27000km2;
• The lack of ambition and the lack of investment from the private sector
which is possibly related to the lack of local purchasing power.
Structural Challenges

9. • Curious and intelligent youth [In Haiti, 54 percent of the population is under
the age of 25, with 31 percent in the 10 to 24 age category. (UNICEF 2019)]
• The growing interest for the jobs related to the new technologies of
information and communication because of covid19 in particular;
• Innovative initiatives for the promotion of information technologies and
information systems such as HaitiTech Summit, Ayiti Analytics, BANJ,
ISOC Haiti,Transversal, HaitiCyberCon, ESIH, Nextep Communication
Communication etc.
Opportunities

10. • With political will and an ambitious vision Haiti can consider reforming the
national education system and adapting it to the needs of the time; with
the introduction of computer science as a basic course at all levels, subsidy
of school tablets and computers for students and national innovation
competitions to foster competitiveness and creativity.
• Information technology can be used for mass education to help Haiti catch
up on its development;
• Haiti can also make the choice to train his youth to grab opportunities of
remote work at the international level.
Perspectives

11. THANK
YOU
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