The Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion is promis­ing that cit­i­zens will soon have more op­por­tu­ni­ties to stay con­nect­ed with the ad­di­tion of 36 new TTWiFi lo­ca­tions across the coun­try.

In a re­lease, the min­istry said this ex­pan­sion is ex­pect­ed the bring the to­tal num­ber of “no-cost” pub­lic WiFi hotspots to close to 300 na­tion­wide.

The min­istry said this rep­re­sent­ed a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort be­tween it­self, the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT) and the Na­tion­al In­for­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Com­pa­ny Ltd (iGovTT).

Say­ing the TTWiFi pro­gramme of­fers the ini­tia­tive in pub­lic spaces, the min­istry said the new lo­ca­tions in­clude trans­port hubs like the Pi­ar­co and ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­ports; mar­kets in Ari­ma, Tu­na­puna and Ch­agua­nas and pop­u­lar recre­ation­al spots like Cas­tara Beach, Spey­side Look­out, and the Ca­lyp­so Rose Es­planade in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go.

The min­istry added that cit­i­zens will al­so soon be able to stay con­nect­ed on­board the To­ba­go fer­ry and wa­ter taxi and in more gov­ern­ment of­fices like the li­cens­ing of­fices in San Fer­nan­do and Port-of-Spain, the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion in Port-of-Spain, and the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment’s of­fices in Tu­na­puna and al­so in Port-of-Spain.

The min­istry added that this project is a cen­tral com­po­nent of its broad­er dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion plans to make broad­band a “pub­lic good for all cit­i­zens.”

It not­ed that each lo­ca­tion will be de­signed to meet user and com­mu­ni­ty needs, pro­vid­ing ac­cess to e-gov­ern­ment ser­vices, emer­gency alerts, weath­er and traf­fic up­dates, news and pop­u­lar mes­sag­ing plat­forms.

The min­istry fur­ther not­ed that the TTWiFi ini­tia­tive aligns with the goals of the Gov­ern­ment’s Vi­sion 2030 and the Na­tion­al Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Strat­e­gy 2024 to 2027, par­tic­u­lar­ly by en­hanc­ing ser­vice de­liv­ery, in­creas­ing dig­i­tal ac­cess, skills and op­por­tu­ni­ty as well as clos­ing so­cio-eco­nom­ic gaps through greater in­clu­sion.