<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Lest it be thought that Barbados does not have a record of pioneering new technologies, one of the speakers today is <b>Alan Emtage</b>, who is <a href="https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/alan-emtage"><b>in the Internet Hall of Fame</b></a> for inventing ARCHIE, the first search engine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">REAL TIME TEXT <a href="https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE">https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "On Monday January 31 2022 at 09:00-12:30 AST (13:00-16:30 UTC) the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in partnership with the Government of Barbados hosts a webinar 'Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective'. In 2021 Barbados announced it " </span>
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