ICT-Led Innovationin the Caribbean

“Connect to Innovate and Grow”

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

Ilari’s Innovation 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• Intersectoral and inter-ministerial collaboration

Where and with whom would you establish your first open innovation platform?

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?

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?

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 Approachb. 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.

Take Home Messages

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?

Questions for the Discussion