The ITM is the CoE’s dedicated platform for technology transfer, innovation scaling, and digital transformation across SIDS. It connects global innovations to local needs, strengthens homegrown entrepreneurship, and builds long-term science and technology capacity through research hubs, fellowships, and incubation programs.
Guided by the ABAS, the ITM supports SIDS in building the innovation architecture needed to foster long-term growth and transformation, while leveraging shared services and common platforms to optimize limited resources.
Technology Access and Transfer Platform
Regional R&D and Innovation Hubs
Innovation Fellowship and Knowledge Exchange
Tech Incubation, Acceleration, and Deployment program
The ITM is designed to operate transparently and efficiently, respecting national sovereignty while leveraging global expertise to support both SIDS-led and internationally sourced innovation. Its lean and phased operational model enables rapid activation through external partnerships without burdening the Centre of Excellence (CoE) with unnecessary overhead. The ITM follows a two-pronged approach: a top-down channel that allows globally proven technologies to be introduced into SIDS through a centralized matchmaking process, and a bottom-up pathway that empowers SIDS-based entrepreneurs supported through other CoE pillars like the Island Investment Forum to scale homegrown solutions and export them to other SIDS through ITM facilitation.
Crucially, the ITM preserves national sovereignty, supporting each country’s leadership of its own development agenda while amplifying visibility through engagement with global platforms and multilateral institutions. It ensures robust validation, documentation, and reporting processes that strengthen capacity across the SIDS network and provide a foundation for scale. By integrating innovation, investment, and institutional support, the ITM offers a replicable and trusted model to accelerate development in a country-driven, resource-efficient, and globally supported manner.
While each country retains full autonomy over its development and deployment decisions, the ITM supports this sovereignty by offering optional access to shared tools, evaluations, and roadmap templates. These shared resources help reduce duplication and accelerate program development. Once a robust portfolio of technologies is in place, any SIDS may request support from the ITM in identifying suitable, pre-vetted technology solutions, shortening timelines and enabling more rapid deployment at the national level.
Vetted technology pipeline shortens time from request to deployment
Solutions are tailored to national context through pre-vetted -design and local input
All pilot costs covered by technology partners and investors
Participation in regional platforms across other CoE pillars (e.g., Island Investment Forum, Global Data Hub)
All decisions, data ownership, and partnership terms remain under full national control
Capital flow platforms, emergency response logistics, AI-driven risk tracking
Modular solar microgrids, battery storage systems, green hydrogen
Smart irrigation, vertical farming, climate-resilient seeds, advancements in water
Mobile clinics, maternal health apps, remote diagnostics
Low-orbit satellite internet, national e-governance systems
Offline-compatible edtech platforms, teacher upskilling tools
Digital port tracking, blockchain-based customs and cargo management
Launch of Technology Access and Transfer Platform
Establishment of three Regional R&D Hubs
Design of Fellowship Program
Deployment of validated technologies across SIDS
Alumni network of Innovation Fellows
Scaling of startups through acceleration programs
2025
Initial Cohort of 10 Pilot Countries
Antigua & Barbuda
Grenada
Suriname
Fiji
Palau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Maldives
Mauritius
Seychelles
