Caribbean - Mobile Innovation Project under EPIC Project : restructuring (Inglês)

The development objective of the Mobile Innovation Project under EPIC Project for Caribbean aims (1) to strengthen the Caribbean mobile innovation ecosystem and (2) to enable sustainable and competitive mobile enterprises to grow.The project model is ... Exibir mais + The development objective of the Mobile Innovation Project under EPIC Project for Caribbean aims (1) to strengthen the Caribbean mobile innovation ecosystem and (2) to enable sustainable and competitive mobile enterprises to grow.The project model is based on supporting and coordinating activities in locally based startup ecosystem hubs and the project consists of training courses, mobile app competitions, and support to promising entrepreneurs to launch their products,strengthen their market share and investment readiness.The Caribbean Mobile Innovation Project was initially designed as a 40-month project under the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean (EPIC). The implementing agency, UWI Consortium, has been provided a grant by The World Bank Group on behalf of the Government of Canada in the amount of USD 1,500,000. The project implementation period commenced July 17, 2014 with a scheduled closing date of November 30, 2017.T he proposed change to the project is an extension of the grant closing date from November 30, 2017 to November 30, 2018. The requested extension is to ensure that UWI Consortium has adequate time to implement all the components of the project and meet the project objectives.  Exibir menos -