ICT-Led Innovation in the Caribbean

1. ICT-Led Innovationin 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’sInnovation Policy Take Home Message • Innovation eco-systems thrive when platforms for promoting collaborative partnerships are established, e.g. • 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 • Intersectoraland 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 CrowdsourcingTake 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 • 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. OpenInnovation and Co-creation Platforms: • Innovation eco-systems thrive when platforms for promoting collaborative partnerships are established. • 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. • 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 • Innovation in the Caribbean: • How can we expand and infuse creative thinking, creative problem finding and solving within schools, universities and firms? • Open Innovation and Co-creation Platforms: • Where and with whom would you establish your first open innovation platform? • 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?