Digital Trust, Real Impact — our founder, published in AMCHAM T&T’s Linkage
September 15, 2025
“That is a brilliant answer” — teaching digital literacy at Kidpreneur Island
December 6, 2025
In October 2025, MyCashlessClass Founder Dawn Nelson took her seat on a national panel at the CLICO Credit Union Youthpreneurship Conference, held at the Hilton Trinidad & Conference Centre under the theme “Youth in Tech: Shaping the Digital Society.”
The panel — “The Digital Society: Unlocking Growth through Connectivity, Data & Innovation” — asked how digital infrastructure, inclusivity, and innovation can open new opportunities for young people and small enterprises. Moderated by award-winning CNC3 journalist Ryan Bachoo, it brought together voices from across the country”s technology and enterprise community.
Asked whether we are doing enough to help young people believe they can build successful businesses before adulthood, Dawn”s answer was direct: not yet — and it begins with mindset. She drew a comparison to the way Jamaica spots track and field talent early, with trained eyes that recognise potential in children simply running in ordinary settings. We should be just as intentional, she argued, about recognising entrepreneurial talent in children — at eight, nine, ten years old — rather than waiting until adulthood to take it seriously.
Entrepreneurship, she reminded the room, is already part of Caribbean history. Our grandmothers, aunties, and great-grandparents knew how to take very little and turn it into something that sustained a household — serving community needs and creating value long before the word “entrepreneur” carried a formal label. We have drifted from that legacy, she suggested, because too many now wait for someone else to grant permission or create the opportunity.
Her closing conviction: entrepreneurship is in our blood, and we are waiting too late. Young people must be taught to create opportunities, not simply wait for employment — and that mindset has to be wired in from early.
It is a conviction that runs through everything MyCashlessClass builds. The same belief that children can understand opportunity early is the belief that children can understand digital transactions early — and grow into digitally comfortable citizens, ready for the world taking shape around them.
