Caribbean Digital Transformation Project

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The objective of the Caribbean Digital Transformation Project (Digital Caribbean) for Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is to increase access to digital services, technologies and skills by governments, businesses and individuals in the participating Eastern Caribbean countries. The Project has four components. 1. Digital Enabling Environment component will support the development of a positive enabling environment for the region’s digital economy that drives competition, investment, and innovation while promoting trust and security of online transactions. This component has three subcomponents. 1.1. Telecommunications: Legal and Regulatory Environment, Institutions, and Capacity subcomponent aims to support greater telecoms sector competition, affordability, and service quality across the region as well as enhancing resilience and emergency response capabilities for critical communications infrastructure. It will support modernization of the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks governing the telecoms sector and the capacity to implement them at regional and national levels. 1.2. Digital Financial Services: Legal and Regulatory Environment, Institutions, and Capacity subcomponent aims to spur greater innovation, investment, and adoption of digital financial services across the region. 1.3. Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Privacy: Legal and Regulatory Environment, Institutions, and Capacity subcomponent aims to build trust in online transactions and strengthen the security and resilience of digital infrastructure and systems. It will promote cybersecurity awareness and capacity building as well as create an enabling environment and institutions needed to protect the public and private sector from cyber vulnerabilities. The project will utilize a combination of regional and national level approaches to share knowledge, and resources and to respond to shared threats. 2. Digital Government Infrastructure, Platforms, and Services component will support public sector modernization, resilience, and delivery of digital public services to individuals and businesses. This component has two subcomponents. 2.1. Cross-Cutting Enablers of Digital Government Operations and Services subcomponent will support the development of key enablers of digital government services and operations, in line with regionally harmonized standards and frameworks. 2.2. Government Productivity Platforms and Citizen-Centric Digital Services subcomponent supports the development of priority government productivity platforms and citizen-centric digital public services. It will build upon the core enabling infrastructure and platforms developed under Subcomponent 2.1. 3. Digital Skills and Technology Adoption component aims to better equip individuals and businesses across the region for the jobs and economy of the future and to spur innovation and productivity growth. This component has two subcomponents. 3.1. Workforce-Ready Digital Skills subcomponent aims to support training for employment opportunities in digitally enabled professions. Regional level activities will target more advanced and specialized digital skills development and remote working placements with global firms and clients. National level activities will be targeted primarily at digital skills in demand among industries in the Eastern Caribbean region. 3.2. Technology Adoption subcomponent seeks to increase adoption of digital technologies, platforms, and digitally enabled business models by SMEs and access to digital devices for students, teachers, and vulnerable groups. 4. Project Implementation Support component will support national and regional level Project Implementation Units (PIUs) with management and implementation of the project and associated activities.