A national of Barbados, Mr. Taylor joins the CTU from the Barbados Ministry of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology (MIST), where he was its Chief Digital Technology Officer. In that position, he was the technical lead on Barbados’ digital transformation, improving public sector service delivery through the strategic use of innovation, science and SMART technology.
Between 2010 and 2014 he served as CTU’s Business Development and Operations Manager. In this role, he worked with regional governments in the development of policies to govern information and communications technology (ICT); led the work to operationalise the CTU’s Caribbean Centre of Excellence, to offer consultancy services to the Member States, and represented the region in many international ICT conferences.
Mr. Taylor is an advisor on Internet Governance and has published research on e-Commerce diffusion in small island developing states in the Journal of Information Systems for Developing Countries. He is a technologist at heart and a founding member and former Chairman of the Barbados Chapter of the Internet Society, an organisation whose aim is to promote the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.