Business View Caribbean | Volume 8, Issue 8

8 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 8, ISSUE 8 “COVID 19 has presented the world with significant challenges and opportunities. However, as the world begins to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, through vaccinations and subsidence of restrictions, a new trial faces us: economic recovery. Hackathons have historically provided a means of sparking collaboration between problem seekers and solvers. In resource constrained environments, facilitating these interactions and conversations can be challenging and therefore require creative approaches to motivate stakeholders to have a conversation,” stated Mr. Miguel Andrews, CARIRI Calibration Lab Manager. “We believe that there are many opportunities in the current digital ecosystem to face these economic and health care challenges, and the work done by the participants was proof of that. Also, the young hackers, theorizers and doers were benefited from expert coaching and mentoring, industry expert guidance and curated domain open dataset starter kits to assist in their solution development. With the DIA– Democratizing Innovation in the Americas program, we aim to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship by enabling Caribbean