Caribbean Digital Transformation Project: Closing the Connectivity and Skills Gap in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
A 2019 public-private broadband build (CARCIP) and a follow-on World Bank project lifted Saint Lucia's connectivity from about 53% to …
Dominica · Roseau · See the Dominica profile
A World Bank-financed $94M regional programme (Dominica's share: $28M) built shared government cloud infrastructure, digital ID and a 90+-service e-portal in hurricane-vulnerable Dominica, though citizen-level outcome data remains thin as of 2026.
The Caribbean Digital Transformation Project (CARDTP), the World Bank's first financing for the digital economy in the Caribbean, was approved in 2020 as a $94M regional project split across Dominica ($28M), Grenada ($8M), Saint Lucia ($20M), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ($30M) and the OECS Commission ($8M). It targets five pillars of the digital economy: infrastructure, platforms, financial services, skills, and businesses.
In Dominica specifically, the project financed fibre connectivity to government offices, schools and health centres (via a partnership with Digicel), primary and secondary government data centres, a digital ID and civil registry system, and an e-Services Portal (eservices.gov.dm) offering more than 90 government services online, including birth/death/marriage certificates, passports and business permits. A Digital Skills Training component is also included, intended to build workforce-ready digital skills.
Per the World Bank's own 2025 implementation status report, 12 digital government functions/services in Dominica are running on the shared services platform, and a national CERT (cybersecurity incident response team) has been established regionally in Grenada. The project was launched in November 2020 with a target completion date of 2025.
Caveat: this is a shared regional project, and Dominica-specific citizen-level outcome data (numbers trained under the Digital Skills component, digital-ID enrolment) was not found in public reporting as of mid-2026 — those components appear designed and funded rather than yet measured. The World Bank's own 2025 status report flags the need to 'accelerate implementation' of digital-skills and data-protection/cybersecurity work.
Read the full analysis: https://cardtp.gov.dm/
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