Page 7 - RDA
P. 7

A14   LOCAL
            Wednesday 1 november 2017






























            November 16 - 17 at the Hilton Aruba Resort:
            Block Chain Technology to be Discussed at Green Aruba 2017


























                                                                                                   more sustainable manner.     best practices and innova-
                                                                                                                                tions.
                                                                                                   Green  Aruba  is  also  very  Most  importantly,  this  con-
                                                                                                   aware  that  any  confer-    ference  has  made  it  pos-
                                                                                                   ence  on  sustainability  with  sible  for  other  countries,
                                                                                                   focus on energy would not  institutions   and   experts
                                                                                                   be  complete  without  con-  from  all  over  the  world  to
                                                                                                   sidering  how  the  financials  share valuable information,
                                                                                                   come  into  play.  This  year  knowledge,   experiences
                                                                                                   at  GAVIII  the  new  subject  and best practices.
                                                                                                   of block chain technology  In  the  context  of  creating
                                                                                                   will open the financing and  sustainable   partnerships,
                                                                                                   economics part of the con-   this  year  the  Green  Aruba
                                                                                                   ference. Block chain tech-   will  host  the  conference
                                                                                                   nology  promises  to  open  in  collaboration  with  CAR-
                                                                                                   new  doors  for  conducting  ILEC.  CARILEC,  founded  in
                                                                                                   business in a more efficient  1989,  is  the  leading  asso-
                                                                                                   way by for example cutting  ciation  of  electric  utilities
                                                                                                   the  middleman  out  from  and industry partners in the
                                                                                                   the  established  financial  Caribbean  with  currently
                                                                                                   sector.                      106  members.  It  focuses
                                                                                                   But  what  problems  does  on  electric  utility  advo-
                                                                                                   this technology really solve  cacy,  growth  and  sustain-
                                                                                                   for the energy sector? And  ability  in  the  Caribbean
                                                                                                   what  are  the  risks  or  dis-  region,  Central  and  South
                                                                                                   advantages  for  the  estab-  Americas. Together, Green
                                                                                                   lished  energy  providers?  Aruba  and  CARILEC  will
                                                                                                   Real life examples of block  enable  more  opportunities
                                                                                                   chain  applications  within  for the conference partici-
                                                                                                   the  energy  sector  will  be  pants to engage in moving
                                                                                                   discussed.                   sustainability  forward  by
                                                                                                   Since  2010,  Green  Aruba  providing  valuable  insights
            PALM  BEACH  –  Organizers  VIII),  which  will  be  held  at  ability  in  Motion”,  which  has  served  as  an  excep-  into  how  the  evolution  of
            of  Green  Aruba  recently  the Hilton Aruba Caribbean  captures the focus on what  tional  platform  to  deliver  the electric utility sector will
            announced  details  of  the  Resort on the 16th and 17th  it takes to move from talk-  premium  informational  ex-  affect us all.
            8th  edition  of  the  Green  of  November  2017.  This  ing  about  sustainability  to  perience on how to reach  Visit  www.greenaruba.org
            Aruba  Conference  (GA-      year’s  theme  is  “Sustain-  actually  doing  things  in  a  full  sustainability,  through  for more information.q
   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12