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The Caribbean ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) is a permanent virtual forum of Caribbean ICT stakeholders. It is a venue for sharing information, holding discussions, networking and linking ideas, actors, projects or initiatives o­n ICTs and development in the Caribbean. It also aims to contribute in the building of a common vision/perspective o­n ICTs, and to promote a Caribbean strategy and/or regional Caribbean-wide actions. The CIVIC is based upon an asynchronic, electronic conferencing platform, the ICAribbean mailing list and its related web tools (currently hosted o­n the Dgroup virtual platform). It is a Caribbean managed and Caribbean owned virtual community

Caribbean Export is the only regional trade and investment promotion agency in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. Caribbean Export was established in 1996 by an Inter-Governmental Agreement as the trade promotion Agency of the 15 Member States of CARIFORUM.

Then in July 2005, Caribbean Export assumed an investment promotion mandate after the 14th CARIFORUM Council of Ministers meeting.

Caribbean Export has also established collaborative links with the French Caribbean Outermost Regions (FCORs), with the English and Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and with Cuba.

Caribbean Export is a member of the Regional ICT steering committee

The MSB Centre of Excellence is the premier source of information, knowledge and expertise within Jamaica and the Caribbean, about the application of Open Source Software for business innovation
The Centre of Excellence (CoE) was established on December 1, 2008 as one of the five institutional pillars of the Mona School of Business (MSB). The CoE forms a key part of the vision of the new Executive Director, Professor Evan Duggan, for the MSB to provide more activist leadership in conceptualizing, building and disseminating IT-enabled business innovations, in the wider community.

For more than a decade, the MSB has sought to endow business graduates with both a sound understanding of the critical role that IT can play in business effectiveness and economic development, as well as provide them with the capacity to lead and participate in the successful introduction of such IT-enabled innovations in business. The CoE advances this intervention by creating a multi-disciplinary research and application-oriented technological environment that can leverage the rich knowledge resources of both staff and graduate students of the University. With targeted funding and key institutional partnerships, the CoE will seek to engender the development and deployment of innovative solutions to business problems that are amenable to IT intervention.

In pursuit of this mandate, a set of core competencies, that will become distinguishing hallmarks of the CoE, have been identified and will be progressively built upon. These include the areas of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Project Management, Grantsmanship, Design Science Research and Business Intelligence.