Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL), as the regional regulator for electronic communication, subcomponent 1.1-Telecommunications is to create a strong foundation for the digital economy, in particular, ensuring all citizens have access to high-speed broadband as well as having a robust and reliable broadband infrastructure for the region. 

The UN Secretary General's Roadmap for the Digital Cooperation States “meaningful participation in today's digital economy requires highspeed broadband connectivity to the internet”.

The new regulatory framework will be more responsive to the society we live in today these include 

• Proper and Regulative access to submarine capacity, we all live on islands in order to have robust communication with our member states there must be secure access to subsea fibre that speaks to each other not just in the country but to each member state. 

• Progressive infostructure sharing, to ensure that when structures are built that they are made available for all service providers thus increasing the capacity within the country and not just at the service provider level.

• Last mile access: this includes affordable access to high-speed quality broadband, the digital transformation project.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) wants to ensure that the eastern Caribbean does not become a consumer of a digital economy but a vital contributor to it.  Growth must be fostered through key elements in a digital economy: Connectivity, Skills, Digital Finance and cyber security. The opportunities of the digital economy are boundless but we must know about the risk like breaches of privacy and cyber attacks, that is why digital and data governance is critical.  ECCB subcomponent 1.2: Digital Financial Services Legal and Regulatory Environment, Institutions and Capacity. This sub-component aims to spur greater innovation, investment and adoption of digital financial services across the region. It will support modernization of the policy, legal and regulatory frameworks and underlying payment infrastructure currently holding back innovators within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) from rolling out new non-bank digital payment products and services and preventing merchants, and governments and individuals from more routinely utilizing digital forms of payment. 

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) wants to ensure that the eastern Caribbean does not become a consumer of a digital economy but a vital contributor to it.  Growth must be fostered through key elements in a digital economy: Connectivity, Skills, Digital Finance and cyber security. The opportunities of the digital economy are boundless but we must know about the risk like breaches of privacy and cyber attacks, that is why digital and data governance is critical.  ECCB subcomponent 1.2: Digital Financial Services Legal and Regulatory Environment, Institutions and Capacity. This sub-component aims to spur greater innovation, investment and adoption of digital financial services across the region. It will support modernization of the policy, legal and regulatory frameworks and underlying payment infrastructure currently holding back innovators within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) from rolling out new non-bank digital payment products and services and preventing merchants, and governments and individuals from more routinely utilizing digital forms of payment. 

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission - Subcomponent 3.1: Workforce-Ready Digital Skills. Where the OECS Commission will be focusing on training for employment opportunities for digitally enable professionals. At the regional level activities will target specialise skills development and remote working placement with global firms and clients. We want to develop a digital economy to drive competition to help create an easy and less frustrating business environment which is important for us in the eastern Caribbean for business growth and economic growth.

The world bank is the main funding agency for the Caribbean Digital Transformation Project. In the short term, it will support access to broadband and digital devices to enable remote learning and virtual continuity of operations for critical government functions and services. In the longer term, it will support social, economic, and government communications and transaction to move online and ensure that everyone is included in the digital economy - improving the resilience of individuals, business, and governments to continue to operate and interacts virtually in the wake of health, economic, or natural disruptions.

Short-Term: Financing of devices for school students to facilitate remote education; financing of high-speed broadband connectivity and access devices to facilitate remote work.

Medium-Term: Financing of point of sale devices among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to enable acceptance of digital payments; Development of a government payment platform Digitization of social cash transfer programs; Digitization of Internal government operations through investments in government cloud infrastructure, productivity tools (e.g., digital signatures), and e-document management systems.

Long-Terms: Development of digital identification systems; Digitizing of key public services to enable contactless service delivery to citizens; Facilitating e-money through enabling environment reform; Improved affordability of broadband services through enabling environment reform; Training of individuals in digital skills and support to secure digitally enabled work opportunities; Incentivizing technology adoption among SMEs.

Caribbean Telecommunications Unions (CTU) has the honoured role of adviser to the Regional Project Oversight Committee.