A Coalition of Regional and International Partnerships

 

The University of the West Indies is a dynamic, international institution serving the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua/Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

 

 

The Mona School of Business is the premier provider of business education, research and consulting in Jamaica and the region., with Diversified programmes and delivery  modes and a High-quality curriculum, shaped by global trends but oriented towards the reality of the Caribbean context
 
MSB is ranked by Eduniversal International Scientific Committee among the top 1,000 Business Schools in the World in the League of "Good Business Schools with regional influence

 

The Caribbean ICT Research Programme comprises a team within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of the West Indies. CIRP utilizes a range of methodologies that span multiple disciplines to effect unbroken coherence between fundamental and applied research and practical ICT interventions at the individual and community levels. Its problem spaces are limited to those which have the potential for progressive human capital returns through operational gains in the short term; as well as strategic gains in the long term. 
CIRP research foci include wireless communications; telecommunications policy and regulation; and ICT applications for development. Interventions focus on integrated, context-appropriate solutions in support of livelihoods, personal safety and empowerment.
 

 

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC, the Centre) is a Canadian Crown corporation established by an act of Parliament in 1970. IDRC was created to help developing countries find solutions to their problems. It encourages, supports, and conducts research in the world’s developing regions, and seeks to apply new knowledge to the economic and social improvement of those regions.
 
IDRC aims to reduce poverty, improve health, support innovation, and safeguard the environment in developing regions. IDRC offers researchers based in developing countries the financial resources, advice, and training that will help them find solutions to the local problems they identify.

 

 

 

Fundación Taigüey (www.taiguey.org), is a Non Governmental and not for Profit organization, founded in 2003, and legally established in the Dominican Republic. Its’ Mission is “to promote, implement, support and assess the processes of social transformation at the community level, promoting participative methodologies and the use of appropriate technologies". It’s vision is that the positive transformation of the communities (also called human or sustainable development, progress or advancement) is only possible when considering the integral empowerment process, that includes all social, organizational, cultural, economic, human, spiritual, environmental aspects, and with the active participation of the stakeholders.