Mifos attends Inaugural Caribbean DPI Summit in Jamaica
A look back and reflection on the Caribbean Digital Public Infrastructure Summit at Mona School of Business and Management, Kingston, Jamaica. 8-10 April 2025.
Mifos was delighted to be invited to participate in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) summit in Kingston, Jamaica earlier this month. Our sincere appreciation goes out to the organizers of the summit, Matthew McNaughton & Aura Cifuentes of Co-Develop, for giving Victor Romero and Ed Cable the chance to attend including Ed Cable participation on the panel, Scaling Open-Source Solutions for Public Service Delivery, and Victor Romero during a workshop on Social Protection.
This inaugural Caribbean DPI Summit held at The University of the West Indies, Mona captured the essence of the first global DPI summit in Cairo but distilled it down into an immersive and intensive intimate experience where we could see firsthand the growing momentum there is across the region yet appreciate the unique challenges and constraints that come with building DPI for small-island nations. It helped to raise both the challenges and opportunities that present themselves at each stage of the implementation life cycle of DPI – Conception and Scoping, Strategy and Design, Development, Deployment, and ongoing Operations and Maintenance.
This event brought together innovators, policymakers, academics, NGOs and advocates to explore how the Caribbean region could harness the power of digital commons to foster economic resilience and social well-being.
In this article Ed Cable and Victor Romero look back over the event and the insights they gained from their perspectives from their relative roles in the Mifos DPI Ecosystem.
