About

Caribbean Digital Compass

Traditional research reports in the Caribbean have a problem: they’re expensive, slow to produce, and often out of date before they’re published. They’re accessible primarily to large businesses and governments, leaving small businesses, startups, and individuals without the timely insights they need to navigate our rapidly changing digital landscape.

We’re trying to change that.

Caribbean Digital Compass provides dynamic, timely research briefs that answer the broader questions whilst digging into the specifics that matter to your business. We’re committed to the Caribbean context, producing country-by-country insights alongside deeper dives into critical topics like cybersecurity, digital health, and artificial intelligence. Our reports are designed to be digestible and actionable, not 300-page tomes gathering digital dust on a virtual shelf.

As the region transforms, we’re here to help you navigate these waters. Think of us as your compass for the digital ecosystem—a tool to help you avoid the rocks and chart a course forward.

We’re building this for the 95% of Caribbean businesses that are MSMEs, the entrepreneurs driving innovation, and anyone who needs reliable, affordable, and accessible digital insights. Join us on this journey, and let’s build our collective knowledge together.

Michele Marius

An experienced Consultant, Manager, Regulator, Engineer and Author, Michele Marius has over 20 years of experience in the ICT and telecommunications space. She has worked in both the private and public sectors and in developed and developing countries in the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Currently, Michele is the Director of ICT Pulse Consulting Limited, a research and advisory firm specialising in a broad range of ICT and telecommunications issues, and is based in Jamaica. She is also the Founder of Project Calls, an online platform collating tender opportunities across the Caribbean region.

Finally, Michele is the Publisher, Editor and Primary Contributor of ICT Pulse. This well-respected and longstanding online publication discusses topical telecommunications and ICT issues from a Caribbean perspective, with a wide readership across the region and internationally. She also hosts the ICT Pulse Podcast, through which to deep dive into important ICT/technology issues occurring in the Caribbean, thus enriching the conversation we, in the region, could be having.

Matthew Cowen

Matthew Cowen is an experienced consultant Matthew has over 30 years of experience in the IT/Tech space. Matthew has worked for governments, NGOs, private businesses and individuals in Europe, the Caribbean, and the French West Indies. Matthew is fluent in English and French and has a conversational understanding of French Créole.

Recent work with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the first-ever regional Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (R-DECA), where Matthew provided expertise on Pillar 1 - Digital Infrastructure and Adoption. Additionally, Matthew acted as a Digital Transformation consultant to develop resilience and recovery training materials for MSMEs in the Caribbean with CARICHAM. In additional consulting roles, Matthew has provided subject matter expertise for online marketplaces, the Orange Economy, Cybersecurity and other topics concerning MSMEs.

Matthew holds a Master’s in Operational Management and is certified through training courses with LACNIC, UNCTAD and many industry-leading organisations like Microsoft and Veritas. Matthew is the director and owner of dgtlfutures, a consultancy researching and analysing digital ecosystems in the Caribbean and beyond. Matthew is also the author of The Future is Digital newsletter and has acted as a media subject expert, spoken at several conferences and appeared on numerous podcasts as a guest with expertise in digital ecosystems.