1. ICT-Led Innovation
in the Caribbean
“Connect to Innovate and Grow”

2. Silburn’s Take Home Messages
Let’s structure economic payoffs to favour innovators and
innovating firms in order to drive sustainability, flexibility and
competitiveness.
Let’s expand and infuse creative thinking, creative problem
finding and solving within schools, universities and firms.
Let’s foster a process, structure and culture of innovation using
the Triple Helix Approach

3. Ilari’s Innovation Policy
Take Home Message
Innovation eco-systems thrive when platforms for promoting
collaborative partnerships are established, e.g.
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Public – private partnerships
Integration of users and customers with innovation processes
Innovation forums
Innovation and technology platforms at national, regional and
local levels
Collaboration ventures of any kind
Intersectoral and inter-ministerial collaboration
Where and with whom would you establish your first open
innovation platform?

4. Jeff’s Open Data and Open
Government Take Home Message
If governments are active partners in an ecosystem - willing to
invest, experiment and even fail (on a small scale) – they will
see real innovations spring from their Open Government and
Open Data efforts.
If you could have 1 dataset from government, what
would it be?
If you could give feedback to improve 1 government
service, which one would it be?

5. Rob’s Crowdsourcing
Take Home Messages
Whether for emergency response or civic affairs:
crowdsourcing is happening, and we have best practices to
allow us to do it smarter. Let’s harness crowdsourcing to
improve public services and entrepreneurship.
What existing services could benefit from a direct
connection with the public as information provider?
What major challenges in your country could benefit
from crowdsourcing applications?

6. Take Home Messages
a. Innovation in the Caribbean:
 Let’s structure economic payoffs to favour innovators and innovating firms
in order to drive sustainability, flexibility and competitiveness.
 Let’s expand and infuse creative thinking, creative problem finding and
solving within schools, universities and firms.
 Let’s foster a process, structure and culture of innovation using the Triple
Helix Approach
b. Open Innovation and Co-creation Platforms:
 Innovation eco-systems thrive when platforms for promoting collaborative
partnerships are established.
a. Open Government and Open Data:
 If governments are active partners in an ecosystem - willing to
invest, experiment and even fail (on a small scale) – they will see real
innovations spring from their Open Government and Open Data efforts.
b. Social Governance, Ushahidi:
 Whether for emergency response or civic affairs: crowdsourcing is
happening, and we have best practices to allow us to do it smarter. Let’s
harness crowdsourcing to improve public services and entrepreneurship.

7. Questions for the Discussion
a. Innovation in the Caribbean:
 How can we expand and infuse creative thinking, creative problem finding
and solving within schools, universities and firms?
b. Open Innovation and Co-creation Platforms:
 Where and with whom would you establish your first open innovation
platform?
c. Open Government and Open Data:
 What existing services could benefit from a direct connection with the
public as information provider? What major challenges in your country
could benefit from crowdsourcing applications?
d. Crowdsourcing :
 What existing services could benefit from a direct connection with the
public as information provider? What major challenges in your country
could benefit from crowdsourcing applications?