Caribbean School Of Data

The Caribbean School of Data (CSOD) seeks to develop a comprehensive and sustainable ‘digital/data literacy’ within the Caribbean, with the goal of building a stronger data culture and creating essential employment skills for the emerging digital economy. The CSOD’s pedagogical strategies, training delivery model and base digital literacy curriculum, were developed during the AYITIC Goes Global (AGG) project in Haiti, to address the challenges of scalable digital skills training in resource-constrained environments. Now the CSOD builds on its pilot and is the amalgamate of 4 distinct arms focused around employability: (1) the distributed training institution that delivers new knowledge to participants; (2) the mentorship programme that focuses on personal and professional development, nurturing the work ethic and networks necessary to grow and thrive; (3) the employers' network where we receive critical information on the labour market and required skills and use this data to shape our curricula, as well as, provide real employment opportunities; and (4) the online community where we encourage regional communication and social learning.