Students rewarded for their Ideas and Innovations at NTRC’s i2 Competition Finals
Several groups from secondary and tertiary educational institutions across St. Vincent and the Grenadines were rewarded with cash prizes up to $3,500.00, smart phones, tablets and one year of broadband services after having participated in the third annual ideas and innovation competition (i2 competition) organized by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC).
This event took place at the NIS’ Main Conference room on January 14, 2016. The competition provided a forum for the Secondary and Tertiary students to display their innovations in producing mobile applications or ideas that would essentially aid the operations of the public service resulting in saving financial resources.
Some of the innovative ideas put forward via the competition included a zip line to the La Soufreire Volcano, A recycling plant for solid waste, electronic tourism licensing system amongst others. Mobile applications included an app that allows tourists to find authorized taxis; a fire alert system to alert the fire department of a fire; an app to track minibuses amongst many others.
Partners of this year’s competition included Ministry of Education, National Insurance Services (NIS), the Centre for Enterprise Development (CED), the Searchlight Newspaper, Toastmasters Organization, Hot 97.1, St Vincent and the Grenadines Broadcasting Corporation (SVGBC), IK TV, Fanfare events, King Computer Corporation, National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and ITFX Solutions.