ingrid riley - experience from connectimass (caribbean)

How ConnectiMass Supporting Youth ICT-based

Entrepreneurship

& Innovation Generally and in Agriculture"

INGRID RILEYFounder, ConnectiMass & Tech Entrepreneur

Wednesday, November 20, 13

Why ConnectiMass?

• Industrial Age is Over. Helloo Digital Age!

• Jamaica/Caribbean at Economic CrossRoads with Bold Choices to Make

• Jamaica has Young Population, Unemployment is disproportionately high amongst youth

• We believe Entrepreneurship changes lives, creates jobs and prosperity.


What is ConnectiMass?

• A Social Enterprise

• We teach and promote tech entrepreneurship in the Caribbean through our media platforms (blogs, newsletters, opportunity databases) and community and capacity building events (meetups,conferences, startup bootcamps).

• Our mission is to increase the number of successful tech entrepreneurs and startups in the Caribbean.


We’re On A Mission

• We are about empowering a generation who see technology and entrepreneurship as catalysts to live not only a better life, but the life of their dreams.

• It’s about them owning their future!


How We Do?

• We Inspire

• We Connect

• We Train


How we Inspire?

• HIGH SCHOOLS Talks

• UNIVERSITIES Group Talks

• Monthly Email Newsletter - workshops, conferences, competitions, opportunities.

• Our Event Blogs- chronicles Startup Ideas Pitched, the Entrepreneurs & Developers behind them


How we Connect?

• Community Development

• Peer to Peer Learning Network

• Mentors Network


Hub of the Jamaican Tech Entrepreneurship Scene


Caribbean BETAAnnual Tech Entrepreneurship

Conference


Online Peer Networks

• Caribbean Women in Tech Facebook Group

• Kingston BETA on LinkedIn

• Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurs

• GramStep

• Jamaica Association of Developers

• Cayman Developers

• Jamaica Association of DesignersWednesday, November 20, 13

Mentor Network

• 50 local, regional, diaspora, international mentors - software engineers, developers, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, silicon valley entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship trainers.


Funding Network

• Developing a Small Angel Investor Network


Our Partnerships


How we Train?Interactive + Experiential

• STARTUP WEEKEND JA

• STARTUP BOOTCAMPS

• LEAN STARTUP SERIES

• COMPETITIONS - BetaPitch at Kingston BETA & PitchFest at Caribbean BETA


Lean Startup Bootcamp Series


USED SOCIAL MEDIA to KICK START a

TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOVEMENT

• Our Event Blogs

• SiliconCaribe.com -Our Caribbean Tech news Blog

• Facebook

• Twitter

• LinkedIn


ICT+AGRI Projects

• FARMSCORE

• TEAM AGRO


FarmScore Credit Rating System for Farmers

• Jamaica has 163,600+ registered farmers

• Farmers are business people aka entrepreneurs

• Farmers need financing for Expansion Machinery Cash flow support

• Banks need to lend to remain solvent


FarmScore

• Farmer RaDng Profile – financial insDtuDons can generate risk profiles

• Farmer Self Evalua:on

• Loca:on based risk profile – Op:mal locale

• Product based risk profile e.g. Banana

• Constant improvement through data collec:on and analysis


Project Agro

o Agriculture contributed 6.6% to the Jamaican economy in 2011 and employs 18% of the workforce.

o There is currently a growing demand for Jamaican products from overseas, as well as from the tourist trade, means that there will be a need for expansion and improved efficiency in the industry.

o Jamaica has a 110% mobile penetration

PREMISE


How it Works

Project Agro is Jamaica's first digital agricultural clearing house

utilizing web to SMS technology to connect small farmers and businesses

• Once a farmer posts produce for sale by SMS directly to the site - that the buyer is interested in, we will send an alert directly to them via SMS. The buyer will have the option of replying to this text message, if this is a product that they currently need.

• Using their mobile devices buyers will be able to post the produce that they wish to purchase, directly to our website, this is then disseminated to the farmers in our database.


Startup CaribeProgramme for 2014-2017...identifying, coaching, connecting the most promising Caribbean technology entrepreneurs through its community an capacity building events, competitions, global networking, entrepreneurship skill-building, startup pre-acceleration services, interactive mentorship programs.

100 Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurs from Start to Startup Success over the next 3 years.


THANK YOU!

@ingridriley@ConnectiMass


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