Nobody would expect a manufacturing sector to thrive without factories. Yet we routinely expect creative sectors to thrive without studios, incubators, archives, labs, registries, rehearsal spaces or business support organizations. That expectation has never made sense.

Good enough to be recognised. Not connected enough to advance. Skilled enough to compete. Not resourced enough to sustain momentum.

Imagine if every restaurant in the Caribbean depended on grants to remain open. Or every hotel. Or every shipping company. We would immediately recognise this as a structural problem.

The future of Caribbean development will not be built solely through roads, ports, airports, and utilities. It will also be built through ideas.

Digital technology offers transformative potential for optimizing spatial planning and accelerating development in small island developing states like those in the Caribbean.

June 20, 2024 – Twin-Island Cinema : St. Kitts-Nevis producer and researcher, Klieon John, proposed a framework of radical technological, spatial, and media innovations to address climate and economic challenges, for the Caribbean at the Youth for Innovation and Resilience Forum of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank in Ottawa, Canada on June 19, 2024. The highly anticipated event convened leaders, innovators, and young vision