Hardware and Software Manufacturing
(1)  Information Technology Services: A handbook for exporters from Developing Countries, International Trade Centre Publication, UNCTAD/WTO, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999

Internet and ECommerce
(1)   http://www.acs-aec.org/primus1.html  Status Report on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Infrastructure in the ACS States.
(2)   ibid.
(3)  Meeting with Mr. Andrew Providence, Product Management Executive; Cable & Wireless, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 13, 2000.
(4)  http:// www.un.org  UNDP Human Development Report
(5)  http://www.redhucyt.oas.org/webing/esting06.htm  Grwoth of Internet Hosts in Latin American and the Caribbean
(6)  Meeting with Mr. Andrew Providence, Product Management Executive; Cable & Wireless, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 13, 2000.
(7)  World Trade Organization Committee on Trade and Development, paper on  "Development Implications of Electronic Commerce", WT/COMTD/W/51, November 23, 1998. 
(8)  Meeting with Mr. Donald Austin, General Manger; Cable & Wireless, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 12, 2000

IT Usage
(1)  Pichinini, Janice. “Creating Opportunity in the Windward Islands.” Washington, D.C.: United States Agency for International Development, September 1998.
(2)  Green, Andrew, Corlita Ollivierre, and Trevor Simpson, “Information Technology: The Caribbean Takes on the World,” CanaBusiness, September-November 1997, 18-28. 
(3)  Meeting with John Murray, Organisation of American States Director, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, January 12, 2000.
(4)  http://www.oas.org Organzation of American States Home Page
(5)  http://redhucyt.oas.org/webing/cunet.htm  RedHUCyT (OAS) Hemisphere-wide Inter University Scientific and Technological Information Network Home Page 

IT Financing

IT Geographics
(1)  Meeting with Mr. Claude Leach; Development Corporation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, January 11, 2000 (Same information also discussed in meeting with Donnie Defreitas, Project Manager, OECS Telecommunications Reform Project, St. Lucia, November 9, 1999.)
(2) Telephone conversation with Mr. Apollo Knights; Ministry of Communication and Works, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 11, 2000.
IT Labor Market
(1)  Schware, Robert and Susan Hume, “Prospects for Information Services Exports from the English-speaking Caribbean.” Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Latin America and Caribbean Region, March 1996.  Photocopied.
(2) Meeting with Mr. Claude Leach; Development Corporation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, January 11, 2000.
Government Policies
(1)   Address by Dr. LA. Nurse, CEO of the Barbados Industrial Development Council,  at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chamber of Industry and Commerce, February 5, 1999. 
(2)   Free Trade Zones Act of 1999, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(3)   Telephone conversation with Mr. Apollo Knights; Ministry of Communication and Works, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 11, 2000.
(4)   Free Trade Zones Act of 1999, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
(5)   Telephone conversation with Mr. Apollo Knights; Ministry of Communication and Works, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 11, 2000.
(6)   ibid.
(7)   Schware, Robert and Susan Hume, “Prospects for Information Services Exports from the English-speaking Caribbean.” Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Latin America and Caribbean Region, March 1996.  Photocopied.
(8)  Meeting with Mr. Claude Leach; Development Corporation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, January 11, 2000

Y2K
(1)  http://vincy.com/y2k/glenford_stewart.htm  St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ministry of Communcations and Works Home Pag

Legal Environment
(1) http://www.tcol.co.uk/stvinc/stv2.htm The Commonwealth Online site for St. Vincent & the Grenadines
(2)   http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/Overview.html   Privacy International Site,
(3)  http://www.sice.oas.org/int_prop/ipnale.asp Organisation of American States, Intellectual Property Rights Information Page
(4)  http://www.wipo.int  WIPO Magazine, July-August 1999.
(5)  http://www.trinidad.net/caic  “Data Protection and the Free Flow of Global Information,”  CAIC Times.
(6)   http://www.transparency.de/documents/work-papers/martin-feldman/7-legislation.html   Transparency International Working Paper: "Access to Informaiton in Developing Countries"
(7)  ibid.

IT Strengths and Weaknesses
Impacts on Business
 

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Meeting and Conferences (all notes taken by Melissa DiMemmo unless noted otherwise):

Mr. Donald Austin, General Manger; Cable & Wireless, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 12, 2000.

Mr. Apollo Knights; Ministry of Communication and Works, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Telephone interview, January 11, 2000.

Ms. Brenda Bailey, General Manager; NetData Services Inc., St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 12, 2000.

Mr. Claude Leach; Development Corporation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, January 11, 2000.

Mr. Andrew Providence, Product Management Executive; Cable & Wireless, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, January 13, 2000.

Donnie Defreitas, Project Manager, OECS Telecommunications Reform Project, St. Lucia, November 9, 1999. Notes taken by Melissa DiMemmo.

 “Telecoms Regulators Seminar”, sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), May 3-5 1999, St. Lucia, W.I.

Address by Dr. LA. Nurse, CEO of the Barbados Industrial Development Council,  at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Chamber of Industry and Commerce, February 5, 1999.