EU-backed Caribbean cyber training centre LAC4 serves 27 countries
26 MAY 2022, SANTO DOMINGO
The EU-backed Latin America and Caribbean Cyber Competence Centre, LAC4, launched on 26 May 2022 and serves 27 member countries. It builds cyber skills across the region through training and capacity development. While LAC4 is not quantum-specific, the capacity it creates matters for how the region will handle emerging risks, including quantum.
Skills are the link to quantum readiness. Post-quantum migration demands skilled people, and that expertise is scarce in every region. A centre that raises regional cyber competence builds the human capacity that quantum readiness will draw on, so investment in general cyber skills today supports the specialised work migration will require tomorrow.
Regional capacity is what makes LAC4 effective. Smaller countries often lack the resources to build cyber expertise on their own, so a shared centre serving 27 countries pools effort and spreads skills more widely than any single nation could manage. That collective model strengthens the whole region's ability to respond to risks that no member could fully address alone.
Why it matters. LAC4 builds the regional cyber skills base that underpins any future quantum work in Latin America and the Caribbean. It does not address quantum directly, but post-quantum migration cannot happen without skilled people, and the centre develops exactly that capacity across 27 countries. The region's quantum readiness will rest in part on the foundation that shared training institutions like LAC4 provide.