Pacific Disaster Net is one of several initiatives that brings together a wide selection of information and tools that supports stakeholders and communities to prepare for and manage natural disasters in the Pacific island region.
ICTs delivered through an appropriate development framework can help overcome the physical boundaries that limit small islands’ capacity to conduct economic, political and social transactions.
The Caribbean Mobile Innovation Project, launched by infoDev, aims to help mobile app innovators in the region bring their mobile apps, services and content to the market and build growth-oriented startups into successful enterprises.
Despite high mobile penetration in Caribbean developing nations, using ICTs for business activities is still an obstacle for many smallholders in the agricultural sector.
Multidisciplinary institutions need to develop, use and sustain ICT innovations for linking research, extension and markets, thereby bringing research into practice.
