Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GTT), the largest provider of telecommunications services in Guyana, and the Guyana Economic Development Trust (GEDT), a US and Guyana philanthropic initiative supporting science and technology start-ups, are pleased to announce exclusive exclusive. collaborated on the signature program, the Guyana Innovation Award.
Since 2018, the Guyana Innovation Award has been awarded to standout innovators in Guyana who have developed innovations in agricultural and food-based science and technology.
“This collaboration makes sense to us because, as an organization, we stand behind what true innovation can do in society and in people’s daily lives,” said Orson Ferguson, GTT’s Chief Marketing Officer.
“As a leading corporation in Guyana, we believe in firing trails for the benefit of Guyanese. And we strongly believe in our corporate social responsibility, or CSR, which is about serving our outside communities and in supporting our core function of telecommunications. This initiative fits in particularly well with our mandate to innovate our services and to be the leading brand behind scientific and technological innovation in Guyana, for and by Guyanese. GTT is proud to be the unique sponsor of the program, ”he went on to say.
The Guyana Innovation Award was established to support Guyana’s researchers, thinkers and activists. The Award is a competitive grant that is awarded annually to some of the most commercially viable ideas in the country.
The program’s creator, GEDT, has so far presented the Innovation Award, a grant, to University of Guyana faculty and alumni. However, the program is open to all Guyanese. “We look forward to joining GTT to announce the umpires for 2021. We feel strongly that ‘innovation’ is not the exclusive domain of any one group; it takes place outside the hallowed halls of international universities. Scientific and technological innovation is happening in rural and farming communities, from students and the more mature – basically anyone trying to solve problems in society. Said Oslene Carrington, CEO of GEDT.
“As Guyanese, we can and should feel proud of our local pioneers. They are a source of inspiration and pride, and we want to reward them. We are delighted to be able to do that in partnership with GTT, ”said Carrington. Learn more about the Guyana Innovation Award at www.theguyanatrust.org.