Dr. Inshan Meahjohn | AI Governance, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation

First published on my newsletter, 17 September 2026. At the CIPS Caribbean webinar on AI in procurement, I argued for a boundary rather than a ban. Trinidad and Tobago's procurement law says nothing about artificial intelligence, and neither do the OPR's handbooks. Meanwhile someone in almost every organisation has already pasted a document into a chatbot. That gap between adoption and guidance is where the risk lives, and reading the law's silence as freedom is the wrong reading: the Act's objects, accountability, integrity, transparency and value for money among them, still bind every decision an officer signs. My rule for procurement teams fits in four words. Drafts, never decisions. Read the full piece: https://inshanmeahjohn.substack.com/p/ai-can-assist-us-it-cannot-carry

By Dr. Inshan Meahjohn | Founder and CEO, DAG (Digital Alliance Global Group) My latest peer-reviewed article has been published in the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, a Q1 Emerald journal with an acceptance rate of 8.3 percent. The paper is titled "The uSTART model: an evidence-informed framework for designing business incubation in small island developing states". The question behind the paper is a practical one. Most incubation frameworks were designed for large economies with deep markets, dense investor networks and thick talent pools. Small island developing states have none of these at scale, yet they run incubators built on borrowed blueprints. The paper asks what an incubator should look like when it is designed for a small economy from the start, rather than adapted to one after the fact. The evidence base is a three-year panel study of 106 entrepreneurs who passed through the uSTART incubator in Trinidad and Tobago, focus groups with 51 partic...