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Sustainability in Motion

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OCTA Innovation Brussels BRUZZ events rise the visibility of the OCTs through direct interacting with the Brussels audience but also to the world wide audience due to the high OCTA Innovation visibility and due to the high press coverage. Last BRUZZ event was devoted to Turks and Caicos Islands. Honourable Premier Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson with her […] Read More

Green Faculty becomes reality in Aruba

After years of thorough preparations, the Government of Aruba and the University of Aruba are launching a brand new academic research and teaching program in Science, Technology and Engineering (STEM): the Green Faculty. Academic partner in this endeavor is Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). Representatives of both institutes signed the documents for a five […] Read More

‘Sunrise Solar Park’ one of the biggest solar parks in the Caribbean Region

To further raise the sustainability bar in the Aruban energy mix, WEB Aruba N.V recently was handed over 92.000 square meter of land, which was previously owned by the Refinery of Aruba (‘RDA’), following the contract signing of a 5.9 megawatt solar project with partner ISOTRON and the official groundbreaking of the ‘Sunrise Solar Park’ […] Read More

Bureau of Innovation hosted sold out Coffee Byte Session on E-Commerce in Aruba

On 26th of April the Bureau of Innovation (BI) hosted their “Coffee Byte Sessions”, a small two-hour learning event on different topics in Aruba’s society in which BI invites experts in their respective fields to discuss and present their knowledge with interested people.BI invited Mister Atwell Aniceta – Local Representative from CX PAY, to come […] Read More

Cedrick Tilma: Innovation in energy – a top OCT priority

Cedrick Tilma, Aruba’s representative to the European Union’s institutions, Chair of the OCT Association’s Working Group on Energy and president of the Executive Committee of OCTA, was a key figure in both establishing the OCTA Innovation project and in bringing into being a Sustainable Energy Roadmap for OCTs, signed in June 2015 by OCT Heads […] Read More

Regional Innovation Workshop in Sint Maarten, 5-7 October

Caribbean regional workshop will take place 5-7 October 2015 at Sint Maarten. The main aim of the activity is to improve OCTs and OCTA’s capacities and ensure better exchange of experience and expertise in Innovation by gathering the IMs and other relevant stakeholders in regional workshops and a project conference, which would contribute to facilitate […] Read More

TEDxAruba: Registrations Open!

TEDxAruba strives for sustainable innovation, new business creation and bringing idea’s to live, not only for Aruba, but also for other similar small economies and the rest of the world. The TEDxAruba mission, like the TED mission, is to propagate Ideas worth Spreading and Actions worth Doing; to inform and inspire. Our specific goal is […] Read More

Aruba: Best practice in Islands

It is truly inspiring to see the great work on innovation by our colleagues in Aruba. OCTA Innovation Manager Bianca Peters, heading Bureau Innovation, is facilitating the Innovation through biweekly Lunchbytes sessions, where specific innovation topics are focused upon and discussed. These sessions have contributed to the Kick-Off event called Inspiring Session. The theme of […] Read More

Aruba Happy Flow: An innovative passenger process, unique in the world

OCTA Innovation is excited to see this example of innovation in practice. One of our most forward looking OCTs, Aruba, has, on May 28, 2015 at Aruba Airport, launched a unique and innovative passenger pilot project: Aruba Happy Flow. The signal for the official launch was given by Aruban Prime Minister Mike Eman in the presence of […] Read More

Bureau of Innovation in Aruba

Aruba expressed its serious commitment to becoming the most innovative island in the Caribbean the moment the Ministry of General Affairs established a Bureau of Innovation (BI). In the second term of Prime Minister Mike Eman’s administration, the Ministry of General affairs was extended with Innovation, Sustainable Development and Science. This was institutionalized in 2014 […] Read More

Aruba’s Smart Island Strategy

How is Aruba transforming its economy from one that for most of the last 100 years has been heavily dependent on oil-refining and, more recently, tourism, to one that is more diversified and more sustainable? The economy of Aruba is 70% dependent on the tourism industry. Diversifying the economy and reducing Aruba’s reliance on a […] Read More

Aruba signs partnership agreement for a “national roadmap to sustainability”

The government of Aruba is partnering with the New America Foundation to advance Aruba’s sustainable development: Aruban Prime Minister Michiel “Mike” Eman and the New America Foundation’s Patrick Doherty, director of the Smart Strategy Initiative, finalized a partnership agreement on Wednesday to pursue a national roadmap to sustainability, integrating renewable energy, smart growth, and new […] Read More

Economic outlines and opportunities for innovation

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