Future Ready TT — National ChatGPT Edu and AI-Literacy Rollout for Trinidad and Tobago's Schools

On 22 January 2026, Minister of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence Dominic Smith announced that Trinidad and Tobago had been selected — alongside Estonia, Greece, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Slovakia and the UAE — for OpenAI's 'Education for Countries' initiative, bringing ChatGPT Edu into the country's schools and universities alongside a parallel AI-readiness assessment run with UNDP and UNESCO. On 28 May 2026, Smith and Minister of Education Dr Michael Dowlath formally signed the 'Future Ready TT' partnership, committing both ministries to roll out ChatGPT-5 Enterprise, Grammarly Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu and Grammarly for Education across the public education system.

The only quantified evidence so far comes from an internal pilot inside the Ministry of Public Administration itself, where 550 staff licences were distributed and users reported a 75% increase in productivity — a public-sector efficiency result, not a classroom outcome. Government messaging frames the schools rollout explicitly around AI literacy: officials describe the goal as teaching students 'not just to use AI, but to critically question outputs, verify sources, identify inaccuracies and understand the ethical boundaries of automated systems,' and Minister Smith has publicly stated that 'technology should not replace people.'

As of mid-2026 the schools and universities component was newly signed rather than evaluated: no student learning outcomes, teacher-training completion figures, or independent assessment of the education rollout have yet been published, and the only hard number (550 licences, 75% productivity) applies to public servants rather than students or teachers.

Read the full analysis: https://www.ttt.live/government-rolls-out-future-ready-tt-ai-programme/