The Sint Maarten macro economic model is live. Champagne!

A year ago we started with this beautiful project: to construct a macro economic model for the Sint Maarten economy and train policy makers at the Department of Tourism Transport and Telecommunications of Sint Maarten to use this macro economic model. One year later it is live: we call it Smartmodel. It’s a smart model, for that beautiful Friendly island called Sint Maarten.

In this article I will briefly walk you through the steps we took each month to make this macro economic model. If you are on a Caribbean island, in a policy department, on a position to advise your Minister or Permanent Secretary this story might be interesting to you.

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You want to automate your repetitive processes?

In the previous article I showed you how you can list what you automate. In this  this article I will show you how why you need to get your data organized in tables.

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Runy Calmera, checking his Google Apps Office online

Stimul-IT.com is the IT organization on Curacao responsible for promoting ICT for small businesses. In an interview with Stimul-IT (Denneth) I discussed how I use Google apps and other online services for my business. If your business is about processing information and you want to go to the next level, read the article and let me know what you think. 

Online applications for Curacao businesses

Online applications are the next item you should consider to add to your business kit. Why, because nowadays as a business on Curacao you can access your business 24*7, at home, on the road with your Black Berry, Iphone, or Android mobile phone.

What are the latest developments and how can online apps add value to your business?  We  at Stimul-IT interviewed a local professional who uses online apps in his day-to-day business as an independent management consultant. Here is a summary we had with Runy Calmera.

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