Miscellaneous computer related articles, opinions and essays by fellow TTCS members.
Here is a simpler analysis of post paid plans between TSTT/bmobile and Digicel instead of the confusing, long “independent” reports on bmobile’s site.
Update (August 2006) : Digicel’s postpaid packages now includes calls to bmobile
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Following the Draft National Policy on Electronic Transactions (2004) and Draft National Policy on Electronic Transactions (2005), the Ministry of Public Administration and Information (MPAI) released the final Electronic Transactions Policy in January 2006.
The Policy will guide the Electronic Transactions Bill that will be introduced in Parliament in the future.
Following the Draft National Policy on Data Protection (2004) and Draft National Policy on Data Protection (2005), the Ministry of Public Administration and Information (MPAI) released the final Data Protection Policy in January 2006.
The Policy will guide the Data Protection Bill that will be introduced in Parliament in the future.
Following the posting of the Draft National Policy on Data Protection (2004) in November 2004, a second revised Draft National Policy on Data Protection was released by the Ministry of Public Administration and Information (MPAI) in September 2005.
Similar to the United Kingdom, one of the main purposes of the revised Draft Data Protection Policy is to
Establish a national Data Commissioner. This Policy and Bill recognise the need for a credible, expert and independent institutional infrastructure to advise the Government on the implementation of this Policy and Bill, as well as determine issues of compliance and redress. It recommends that a regulatory body be established in the form of a Data Commissioner whose role would be to hear appeals regarding access and correction of personal information held by public authorities and selected private sectors to which mandatory requirements would apply, and promote the purposes of the legislation through education, research, and co-operative activities.
Following the posting of the Draft National Policy on Electronic Transactions (2004) in November 2004, a second revised Draft National Policy on Electronic Transactions was released by the Ministry of Public Administration and Information (MPAI) in September 2005.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) conducted an e-mail interview with Patrick Hosein in April 2005, the administrator of the Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre (TTNIC). The TTNIC is responsible for the registration and administration of Internet domain names under the TT (Trinidad and Tobago) Top Level Domain. Examples of such domain names are those ending with .tt, .co.tt, .org.tt, .edu.tt, etc. The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has recently assumed control of the .gov.tt subdomain.
Here are his responses to our questions :
This article is about ADSL service offered by TSTT in Trinidad and Tobago.
ADSL is an acronym for: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It provides faster Internet/data transfer speeds (as compared to speeds from 56K dial-up modems) over existing telephone lines. The local service is “asymmetric” because download speeds are faster than upload speeds.
ADSL can provide reliable speeds as high as 256 kbits/s, but is limited by distance and the quality of available phone lines (good quality = high speed, bad quality e.g. “noise” on the line = slow speed, closer to the DSLAM-enabled telephone exchange = higher speeds, further away from the DSLAM-enabled telephone exchange = slower speeds).
(more…)This draft policy was released by the Telecommmunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) in December 2004. The deadline for comments on this policy was December 31st, 2004. The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) obtained this paper document and scanned and converted it to a PDF in late December 2004.
In January 2005, the TATT website came online and has made available the policy.
Read TTCS comments on the
This draft policy was released by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) in December 2004. The deadline for comments on this policy was December 31st, 2004. The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) had obtained these paper documents and scanned and converted it into a PDF in late December 2004.
In January 2005, the TATT website came online and has made available these draft policies for download.
Read TTCS comments :
The Draft National Policy on Data Protection was released for comment in November 2004 by the Ministry of Public Administration and Information (MPAI). According to the text,
The Data Protection Policy applies to all personal information collected, used or disclosed by private sector and public sector organizations in the course of commercial or government related activity. Key among the Data Protection Policy provisions are:
- organizations must protect personal information with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information; and
- individuals may access personal information about themselves held by an organization and have it corrected, if necessary.
This Data Protection Policy is based on the North American Model and meant to be compliant with rigorous standards for the protection of personal data as outlined in the European Union’s Data Protection Directive and takes into consideration the objectives of fastforward while focusing on the need to be compliant with the target market laws on which we are focused including compliance with the US HIPAA Act.
