You are invited to the Jamaican leg of  The Caribbean Open Data Conference (DevCA 2015)   which will be held from March 5-6, 2015 at the Faculty of Law Building, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. 

DevCA 2015  will focus on developing  IT enabled  solutions  for areas including Agriculture & Fisheries, Tourism, National Statistics, and Education. The Conference explores how technology can be used to enhance information access and service delivery within these domains. 

The Caribbean Open Data Conference is a regional technology conference and code sprint, focused on open data, software innovation, and technology trends. The theme “Developing The Caribbean”, highlights the focus on Open Data as a catalyst for regional development, and the role of software development as a locus of innovation.  Held simultaneously across multiple islands, this year’s staging  will bring together an anticipated 500 regional conference attendees, technologists, public servants, academics and practitioners across five event sites in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba and Guyana. Now entering its fourth year the event features a twofold format; a development conference and a 24-hour code sprint code sprint competition in which teams of designers, developers, and domain experts work together to build solutions to social problems using open data

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