Ricardo Allen heads one of Jamaica’s top education digital service providers, One-on-One Educational Services Ltd. It has experienced exceptional growth since its start in 2013, expanding into several Caribbean countries.Today it stands ready to assist Jamaica and the region to tackle the gaps created in the system by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic that shut down schools across the region for in excess of one year.Allen says its recent acquisition will allow the digital business to expand its coaching and tutoring services to all levels of the education system. The courses that students take, he argues, “are personalised, and that’s what One-on-One is all about – a personalised education experience online.”The company wants “to empower more than 1,000,000 Caribbean nationals to bridge the digital divide and learn and take their exams online, laying the foundation for rapid skills acquisition for a number of subject areas and business skills”.Allen tells Impacting Jamaica host Zadie Neufville that he wants to see a greater level of investment in education in Jamaica to build an infrastructure to allow access to digital education for all. He floated the idea of a “technology bond” for Jamaica. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.