Building a Science Foundation: A Caribbean Model

Saturday, February 16, 2013
Room 201 (Hynes Convention Center)
Cardinal Warde , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Caribbean Islands urgently need to build scientific capacity to address the growing threat of global climate change and the need for sustainable development. A proposed Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF) modeled after the U.S. National Science Foundation, is one potential model to engage the scientific diaspora as part of a capacity building effort. How such a model can learn from the existing diaspora networks.