The proposed solution will be a new climate resilience and adaptation methodologies and technologies to improve climate risk management and COVID19 responses in Jamaica through this program. This project will directly stimulate business development in Jamaica by establishing a climate resilience data innovation incubation program for up to 10 SMEs/startups utilizing big data and artificial intelligence to access the DARAJA Information Sharing Platform. These innovators will utilize the data to develop added value products and services that help to build climate resilience. The alumni of this program will become the founding cadre of private sector actors to engage with MSJ and the public sector agencies releasing their data sets onto the DARAJA Platform.

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• Jamaica
• Kazakhstan

• Youth
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• Remote and rural communities

The platform will be complemented by a smartphone-based weather application for communicating information directly to individuals which will provide a tailored weather and COVID information. The alumni of this program will become the founding cadre of private sector actors to engage with MSJ and the public sector agencies releasing their data sets onto the DARAJA Platform. Their business initiatives will combine data and information from DARAJA with other relevant information to create revenue-generating products and services that improve Jamaica’s overall resilience to weather and climate shocks. This will be published and licensed as open data. It will offer rapid prototyping and marketing testing guides for Jamaica start-ups/SMEs interested in creating new open data driven climate risk information products and revenue streams.