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Blogs from Caribbean Open Institute
 November 19, 2024
The Caribbean is abuzz with excitement! JUMP, an initiative by Cable and Wireless Charitable Foundation (CWCF) in collaboration with regional governments, private sector companies, and the Mona School of Business Management (MSBM) through the Caribbean School of Data (CSOD), was...
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 November 18, 2024
The Women-Centred Disaster Resilience in Small Island Developing States was launched in Haiti in 2024 as a partnership between the Mona School of Business and Management (in Jamaica), through its Caribbean School of Data programme, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The project kicked off...
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 November 17, 2024
Exciting things are happening in the Caribbean. In 2022, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) formed a partnership with the Caribbean School of Data Science (CSOD), part of the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), to fund an Open Mapping...
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 June 5, 2020
Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) have been gaining traction among governments worldwide as a means of facilitating local social and economic development projects. While they take on a variety of names and forms, these programmes are generally implemented as more efficient, locally-informed,...
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 February 27, 2017
Cross-posted from original Blog here:
This blog post forms part two of a three-part series in which we will be sharing the key insights and lessons learned from our work thus far re-imagining Jamaica’s agriculture infrastructure. In part one, I provided an overview of the ADS...
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 February 5, 2017
In 2016, the newly elected Jamaican Government set out an ambitious target of achieving 5% GDP growth in four years. To much public surprise, in the third quarter of that year Jamaica recorded an impressive 2.2% GDP growth rate, the strongest real GDP growth estimate in nine years. The Agriculture...
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 December 13, 2016
The underlining theme in research around open data is that data should be made publicly available, freely or at a low cost, be reusable and redistributed without the restrictions of copyright or any such mechanisms (www.opendatahandbook.org). Open data has four distinct benefits, some direct and...
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 December 10, 2016
Jamaica has become the 3rd Caribbean country to join the Open Government Partnership, following the Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago. In a letter of intent signed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the country signalled its continued commitment towards greater transparency,...
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 December 9, 2016
A short video Blogpost on the importance of Open Data to governance and decision-making in Caribbean Protected Areas
Visit the Caribbean Gateway for more information or Contact: julian.walcott@cavehill.uwi.edu
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 September 17, 2016
After having a productive meeting with the Ministry of Tourism and its affiliate companies, four (4) representatives from the Tourism Product Development Company visited August Town on Tuesday August 9, 2016 to review the proposed tour route. Several suggestions were made on how to enhance the tour...
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 September 13, 2016
Part of the vision of the Caribbean Gateway includes the sharing and openness of data that leads to the sustainable development of the Caribbean’s protected areas. One of the first steps to achieving this vision was to get data custodians on board. During the many interactions with the...
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 August 26, 2016
In Jamaica there is a saying that “one han’ cyaan clap” which simply means that you have to work with others to achieve a common goal, you can’t do it alone. This proverb echoed throughout this interactive community mapping project implemented by the Mona School of Business...
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