Create Caribbean

What Create Caribbean does

Create Caribbean Inc. (operating as Create Caribbean Research Institute, or CCRI) is a non-profit education and research organization founded in 2014 and headquartered on the Stockfarm Campus of Dominica State College in Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica. The institute operates a portfolio of digital humanities products and programs centered on Caribbean cultural preservation, technology education, and academic research support. Core offerings include the Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) interactive database cataloguing more than 3,000 Caribbean literary works across 164+ publishers and 3,253+ publications; The Pelican Lab digital humanities research facility in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus; the Caribbean Writers' Room online platform for emerging writers; and the Create & Code youth technology education program for students aged 5-16. Supporting programs include the RTC Internship Program (which produces the VCL as a student capstone), the Graduate Fellowship, the Summer Intensive Training (SIT) program, and the Community Partners Programme. Additional digital humanities projects include Dominica History web resources, Maroon Country, Imagined Homeland, Carisealand, and the Surviving Storms climate disaster documentation initiative.

The organization is built on a foundation of academic, community, and donor partnerships anchored by Dominica State College as host institution, UWI Mona as strategic academic partner, and the Mellon Foundation as the primary institutional funder via the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective. The technology stack consists of web-based digital humanities platforms, interactive databases, 3D printing and photogrammetry equipment housed in The Pelican Lab, a Moodle-based learning management portal, and collaborative research tools — with no disclosed AI/ML capabilities. The business model combines philanthropic donations, foundation grants (predominantly Mellon Foundation), and a small line of fee-based professional services (research support, editing, grant writing, web development, documentation, tutoring, graphic design) priced in Eastern Caribbean Dollars for public and private sector clients in Dominica and the Eastern Caribbean, with services offered free of charge to DSC faculty, students, and staff.

Name

Create Caribbean

Legal name

Create Caribbean Inc.

Website

https://createcaribbean.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Create Caribbean Inc. is a non-profit digital humanities research institute headquartered in Roseau, Dominica, that preserves Caribbean culture and supports regional education through digital scholarship platforms (Visualizing Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Writers' Room, The Pelican Lab) and technology training programs serving students, faculty, writers, and community organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education and Research Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Humanities & Creative Research Universities (EDAHABAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Research & Lab-Based Short-Term Programs (Undergraduate/Graduate) (EDAIAIAF)

Keywords

• Digital humanities research
• Caribbean cultural preservation
• Technology education programs
• Academic research support
• Creative writing workshops

Headquarters

HQ city

Roseau

HQ country

Dominica

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropic Support: Create Caribbean Inc. is a non-profit organization that relies on donations from governmental, academic, NGO and corporate partners worldwide to fund operations and programs including tech education for diverse student groups.
2. Fee-Based Professional Services: The institute provides fee-based services to the public including research support ($100 consultation), editing services ($5/page), grant writing ($10/page), web development ($50/hour), copy writing ($5/page), documentation/transcription ($150/hour), tutoring ($10/hour), and graphic design ($50/hour). Services to Dominica State College community are free with validated credentials.
3. Foundation Grants: Major funding from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective project, supporting the Graduate Fellowship program with stipends for up to 20 hours of work per week.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Create Caribbean Research Institute is a non-profit education-focused organization that delivers digital humanities research, technology education, and Caribbean cultural heritage preservation programs. Its core offerings include interactive scholarly databases (Visualizing Caribbean Literature), digital humanities research facilities (The Pelican Lab), online creative writing platforms (Caribbean Writers' Room), youth technology education (Create & Code), academic internships and fellowships, and fee-based professional services in research, editing, grant writing, and web development.

Product overview

Create Caribbean Research Institute operates a portfolio of digital humanities products and programs focused on Caribbean cultural preservation, technology education, and academic research support. Core products include the Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) interactive database of 3,000+ literary works; The Pelican Lab (a digital humanities research facility in partnership with UWI Mona); the Caribbean Writers' Room online creative writing platform; and the Create & Code youth tech education program. Supporting programs include the RTC Internship Program (which produces the VCL as a student capstone), Summer Intensive Training in digital humanities, Graduate Fellowship, and Community Partners Programme. Additional projects include Dominica History web resources, Maroon Country, Imagined Homeland, Carisealand, and the Surviving Storms climate disaster documentation project. The organization also operates a Moodle-based learning portal for coursework and provides paid research, editing, grant writing, and web development services to the public. The Create Caribbean Moodle Portal serves as the LMS for all intern, community partner, and staff training cohorts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL): An interactive database of more than 3,000 literary works about the Caribbean experience or by writers identifying as Caribbean people.
• Caribbean Writers' Room
• The Pelican Lab
• Create and Code Program
• RTC Internship Program
• Community Partners Programme
• Carisealand
• Dominica History Project

Products and services

• Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) Interactive database of more than 3,000 literary works about the Caribbean experience or by writers identifying as Caribbean people, including diversity in language, genre, author country of origin, and publication location. Built as student capstone project of the RTC Internship program.
• The Pelican Lab Digital humanities research lab offering access to advanced tools and resources for collaborative research, 3D printing, photogrammetry, and project execution. Located on the second floor of the UWI Mona Main Library, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
• Caribbean Writers' Room Online platform for emerging writers of Dominica and the wider Caribbean offering virtual six-week writing workshops, live and recorded master classes with Caribbean writers, and resources on publishing, festivals, literary agents, and literary development.
• Create & Code Program Technology education program offered by Create Caribbean to encourage students aged 5-16 to engage multiple forms of digital literacy, including coding, game and app development, and blogging.
• RTC Internship Program Unpaid apprenticeship program at Create Caribbean Research Institute providing opportunities for compensation on specific research institute projects requiring additional student labor. Year-long internship producing student capstone projects including the Visualizing Caribbean Literature database.
• Summer Intensive Training (SIT) Two-week full-time funded program designed to introduce digital humanities and public humanities methods to community organizations and public agencies working within cultural heritage, knowledge preservation, sustainability, and environmentalism related to Caribbean history and culture.
• Graduate Fellowship Fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation as part of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective project. Fellows contribute to the design and planning of Create Caribbean's annual digital humanities projects and support the Director with research and writing, paid a stipend for up to 20 hours of work per week.
• Community Partners Programme Initiative launched in 2022 to support local and regional organisations working on themes related to the arts and cultural heritage preservation, providing partnerships and other support to the Dominica State College community.
• Dominica History Projects Series of multimedia web resources for Dominica's annual History Week, covering themes such as 'Building Communities 1838-1938' (2016), 'The Road to Independence' (2015), and other historical topics for students and the public.
• Maroon Country Multimedia educational web resource focused on the history of maroons — the independent and resistant black communities of the slavery-era Caribbean — with a focus on Dominica and the Eastern Caribbean. Built on the Omeka platform, includes a game app featuring historically accurate maroon characters.
• Imagined Homeland (Dominica's Literary Geographies) Digital humanities project aiming to digitally recreate significant historical locations referenced in literature by Dominican authors or set in Dominica through geographical mapping, literary and historical analysis, and audiovisual exhibits.
• Carisealand Collaborative digital platform for research and centralized sharing of projects, data, art, and works in progress within the Caribbean region, intended for collaborative knowledge sharing and inter-disciplinary exchange for sustainable development.
• Caribbean Cyclone Cartography / Surviving Storms Project investigating the past, present, and future of climate disasters in Dominica and the wider Caribbean, funded by the Global Climate Research Fund (GCRF). Includes The Dominica Story Project documenting survivor stories about Hurricane Maria through visual ethnography and digital storytelling.
• Research and Academic Professional Services Free services and consultation provided to Dominica State College faculty, students, and staff in research support, educational technology, and academic support services. Public-facing paid services include research support ($100 EC$ consultation), editing ($5 EC$/page), grant writing ($10 EC$/page), web development ($50 EC$/hour), copy writing ($5 EC$/page), documentation/transcription ($150 EC$/hour), tutoring ($10 EC$/hour), and graphic design ($50 EC$/hour).

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 3,000 Caribbean literary works catalogued and made accessible
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona CampuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on The Pelican Lab, a digital humanities research facility located at UWI Mona Main Library. Also partnered on Summer Intensive Training program for digital humanities education. Create Caribbean is a partner of the Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Mona Library.
• Dominica State CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost institution for Create Caribbean Research Institute, located on the Stockfarm Campus. Provides institutional support and serves as the primary beneficiary of the institute's research and educational services.
• Waitukubuli WriterscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNon-profit writers organization based in Dominica, member of Create Caribbean's Community Partners Program. Caribbean Writers' Room provides support and collaboration with Waitukubuli Writers, made possible by Mellon Foundation funding.
• Duke University's Forum for Scholars and PublicssecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner supporting the Carisealand project, which facilitates collaborative knowledge sharing and inter-disciplinary exchange for sustainable development across the Caribbean region.
• Caribbean Cyclone Cartography PartnerssecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with scholars from University of London at Goldsmiths and Mona Geoinformatics Institute for the Surviving Storms project. Funded by Global Climate Research Fund (GCRF), investigating past, present and future of climate disasters in Dominica with implications for the wider Caribbean.
• Division of Culture (Dominica)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment cultural division collaborating on annual Dominica History web projects, including themes like 'Building Communities 1838-1938' and 'The Road to Independence'.
• July 12th MovementminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity organization partnering with Create Caribbean on the Maroon Country project to generate and sustain dialogue about maroon history and culture in educational contexts.
• Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative network supporting digital humanities scholarship across the Caribbean. Create Caribbean serves as a partner institution working on digital literary studies and Caribbean digital scholarship initiatives.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia is a listed technology/integration partner supporting the VCL project and open-access scholarship. It is comparable as an adjacent enabling organization in the open digital humanities ecosystem rather than a direct competitor.
• Caribbean Studies Association: The Caribbean Studies Association is the regional academic association for Caribbean scholarship. It is thematically adjacent to CCRI's mission of building scholarly infrastructure and community for Caribbean studies, though it is a membership/academic association rather than a digital humanities producer.

Broad incumbents

• HathiTrust Digital Library: HathiTrust is a large-scale, academic digital preservation repository. It is comparable to CCRI as a digital humanities and scholarly content platform, though it operates at university-system scale rather than Caribbean-domain specialization.
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage produces cultural-preservation programming and digital humanities outputs. It is comparable as an established, well-funded institution advancing cultural heritage preservation through research and digital tools, similar in mission to CCRI's Caribbean cultural preservation work.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL): The Schomburg Center is a major research-and-preservation institution for Black and Caribbean diaspora cultural heritage. It overlaps with CCRI on cultural preservation and digital humanities scholarship, though at much greater scale and institutional backing.
• University of the West Indies (UWI): UWI is CCRI's host partner for The Pelican Lab and SIT program and the principal Caribbean higher-education institution. It is comparable as both a partner and a broader incumbent in Caribbean academic research and digital humanities.
• Internet Archive: Internet Archive is a large-scale digital preservation and open-access platform. While much broader in scope than CCRI, it is the upstream ecosystem player for digital humanities projects, open-access scholarship, and cultural preservation workflows that CCRI's VCL and partners engage with.

Direct peers

• Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC): CDSC is the Caribbean-focused digital scholarship collaborative of which CCRI is a partner institution. It is highly comparable as a peer network driving Caribbean digital humanities projects, with overlapping programs (Graduate Fellowship) and shared Mellon backing.
• Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC): dLOC is a cooperative digital library providing access to Caribbean cultural, historical, and research materials. It is the most directly comparable peer: a digital humanities and cultural preservation initiative serving Caribbean scholars and institutions, mirroring CCRI's VCL and archive-style products.
• Documenting the American South (UNC Chapel Hill): DocSouth is a long-running digital humanities initiative producing scholarly resources on a regional culture (the American South). It is directly comparable to CCRI as a regionally rooted humanities digital archive with academic partnerships and educational reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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