The extensive mobile penetration among the Caribbean poor, the tremendous versatility of mobile applications and the relatively low-cost as well as rapid deployment of mobile applications and services all make a compelling case for mobile innovation. Yet there is little in the region by way of related innovation centres, case studies and documentation of supporting methodologies.

The Caribbean Innovators Challenge: Mobile Applications for Development offers an ideal incubator model for capacity-building to Caribbean Tertiary Level Institutions (TLIs) and their young academics involved in software development. It is designed to stimulate development-focused mobile innovation within Caribbean TLIs and provide a framework to contemplate, demonstrate, document and assess such innovation according to relevance, impact and sustainability-based metrics.