Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Thursday, April 29, 2021— The University of the West Indies (UWI) and WhiteBoard Labs (WBL) of India will sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as a commitment to advancing a mutually beneficial goal to improve access to tertiary education and training for the people of India and the West Indies through a Virtual Centre of Excellence.
The signing will take place on Monday, May 3, 2021 at 6:00 pm EC/5:00 pm JA/4:00 pm Belize at a virtual event which will be streamed live via Open Campus social media platforms at, https://www.facebook.com/uwiopencampuscaribbean, https://twitter.com/UWIOpenCampus and open.uwi.edu/livestream.
Messages will be delivered by the Honourable Jonel Powell, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports, and Culture, St Kitts and Nevis; Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies; Shev KR Tohan, Co-Founder of WBL and former Vice-Chancellor of Arni University.
Dr Luz Longsworth, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs, The UWI and Principal of The UWI Open Campus and Dr Rohit Shipstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director of White Board Labs will each give remarks.
Dr Longsworth and Dr Shipstone will do the virtual symbolic signing of the MOU on behalf of both institutions.
“The joint collaboration with WBL will provide significant leverage to the Open Campus in helping to build the human resource capacity of the Caribbean with the skills for operating in an Industry 4.0 environment,” stated Dr Longsworth. “This relationship will also allow the Open Campus to reach students in India and Australia thus widening the reach of the Open Campus.”
“In the current era of globalization and industry 4.0, we expect this partnership to lead in the democratization of relevant education and relevant skills, across the global workforce, in terms of affordability, accessibility and availability,” explained Dr Shipstone. “This is the least understood and the most required aspect of inclusive employment in the current 4th industrial revolution or industry 4.0 and crucial for both our countries to be able to participate effectively in the new economy.”
This agreement, which will be implemented by The UWI Open Campus aims to enhance the entrepreneurial skills of students through virtual social business incubator centres known as the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Industry 4.0. The Centre will facilitate the delivery of joint programmes/services by The UWI and WBL. In the initial phase of the MOU, the areas of collaboration will focus on the exchange of training programmes and courses of Industry 4.0 skills, marketing programmes, establishment of virtual social business incubation centres and offering of business consulting services for Industry 4.0 to small and medium enterprises.
The agreement will also allow for collaboration in the organising of programmes and projects to facilitate capacity building, research and institutional strengthening of private and public sector workers; and provide support for the programmes and projects developed under the MOU.
The activities under this MOU will be implemented jointly by the staff members of The UWI Open Campus and, the staff members of WhiteBoard Labs.
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