Focus Group: Accelerating Caribbean Entrepreneurship at Home and in the Diaspora

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“Towards a Policy Framework for Accelerating Caribbean Entrepreneurship at Home and in the Diaspora”.

Join in the entrepreneurs and key stakeholder leg of this discussion — commenced at the premiere edition of the BIDEM International Caribbean Diaspora Entrepreneurs’ Conference and Trade Show, held in Toronto, October 13-15, 2020.

The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export, Canada and the Honourable Audley Shaw, Minister of Investment and Commerce, Jamaica made their contribution to the dialogue during the Minister’s panel.

Entrepreneurs, consultants, political entrepreneurs  and the media are now invited to make their contribution to articulating the change we want to see. Changes that will drive the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals and local goals for host and home countries.

Diaspora entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, rest of the USA, all destinations where Caribbeans live outside of their home countries—  including other Caribbean Islands and Latin America—  are welcome to join us.

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020  | Time:  7:30 – 9:00  PM EST

Prior registration to participate in this event is required.

Registration Form, click the words Registration Form to register for this and other GEW activities.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 – Magate Wildhorse Has Much in Store for Business Leaders

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This year Magate Wildhorse Consulting [Magate Wildhorse Ltd, Toronto and Magate Wildhorse Inc., New York] and The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs will deliver #BIDEM 2020 GEW Brawta.

  • The programme will involve a mix of discussions―some for advancing the policy framework for accelerating Caribbean diaspora and domestic entrepreneurship commenced at BIDEM 2020 International Caribbean Diaspora Entrepreneurs’ Conference and Trade Show,
  • network building,
  • medical trials and biotechnology – Jamaica to diaspora opportunities
  • virtual expo,
  • vox populi,
  • entrepreneurs business showcase and media interviews
  • publishing and workshops.

We will carry forward the BIDEM Conference and Trade Show theme:

“Connecting the Roots, Building Networks Together for Profit and Purpose”.

 Our GEW celebrations will serve to accelerate the kick off of BIDEM, the entrepreneur and market development process which commenced on October 13, 2020.

BIDEM [pronounced BID-EM], means bridged, high impact diaspora entrepreneurs to efficient diasporic markets! It also aims to drive the growth of high impact mainstream businesses with that delightful ethnic flavor. It is grounded in local, national, regional and international sustainable development. Profit and purpose and draws in risk intelligence, evaluation, monitoring and improvement for delivering profit, purpose, the Global Goals, improvement and BIDEM.

The programme will advance progress for reducing the big 6 barriers to Caribbean Entrepreneurship in diasporic markets and with some being applicable to domestic markets.  The #Eval4Action Campaign and evaluation for driving the SDGs will receive a boost as well as the GEW 2020 themes.

#GEW2020 #Education  #Ecosystems  #Inclusion  #Policy 

We primary focus is not  startups though we include startups; we focus on not so seasoned and seasoned businesses, strong, weak and ambitious and the average.

Registration form                                                                            

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We are official GEN/GEW Partners Canada, USA and Caribbean Diasporic Markets.

About BIDEM

https://bidem.org/welcome-to-bidem/

About Magate Wildhorse

https://www.linkedin.com/company/magate-wildhorse-consulting

About The CoP

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-community-of-practice-for-caribbean-immigrant-entrepreneurs

Magate Wildhorse was the main sponsors of BIDEM 2020 while The WEKH sponsored the Conference app.  SchoolToonz an animation company based in Jamaica sponsored the BIDEM logo.

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For Immediate Release: Canadian business organizations to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020

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COVID-19 might be a formidable enemy but it cannot stop Canadian businesses from celebrating GEW2020.  Among them are several organizations from the Caribbean diaspora who will join business leaders and their supporters in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 to be held November 16-22, confirmed one event partner.

“ This year we will be celebrating the event under the banner BIDEM 2020 GEW Brawta,” said Meegan Scott, founder of  The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs (The CoP), (BIDEM is an acronym for “bridged, high impact diaspora entrepreneurs to efficient diasporic markets.”).

” Our partners and audiences can expect extras (brawta) from BIDEM Conference and Trade Show recently hosted in Toronto, only with a greater focus on the virtual trade show and virtual bazaar,” Scott said.

More than 20 events have been posted by eleven organizations as Canada gets ready to  “connect and celebrate ” the contributions of entrepreneurs to economic growth and job creation.

“This year the coronavirus pandemic forced business leaders to be more deliberate and sharp in bringing economic recovery and solving some of the world’s most “wicked problems to their daily plans and actions”, said  Scott.

Official sponsors of GEW Canada 2020 along with several GEW partners and organizations will host events in cities across Canada for building resilience and entrepreneur capacity in the face of COVID-19.

The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) will lead approximately 180 countries including Canada to host 40,000 events in celebration of GEW and entrepreneurs. The CoP will lead the celebrations for Caribbean diasporic markets with the sponsorship of Magate Wildhorse Consulting (Magate Wildhorse Ltd., Toronto and Magate Wildhorse Inc., New York).

The four official themes for this year’s celebration are ecosystems, policy, education, and inclusion.

Partnering organizations such as Magate Wildhorse Ltd, The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs, The Caribbean Camera, GEN Canada, United Counties of Prescott and Russell Economic Development, Business Community and Partners and academic institutions such as George Brown College will host official GEW Canada events.

Magate Wildhorse and The CoP will heighten our focus on policy.  The discussions and action for “accelerating Caribbean entrepreneurship at home and in the diaspora” will be a major agenda item. Currently there is an online discussion forum  open to interested organizational leaders with Caribbean roots worldwide. The discussions will follow on the Minister’s Panel discussion of the same name in which Canada’s Minister of Small business the Hon. Mary Ng and the Hon. Audley Shaw,  Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce were panelists last month at BIDEM.

In addition, there will be virtual discussions, trade show, bazaar, workshops and media related activities for entrepreneurs during GEW. The Strategy Planning and Evaluation Workshop for Disability Programming; “Views on News”, The Virtual Trade and Chamber of Commerce Summit and “Blinkers Off MSME Fireside Chat” are among the highlights of this year’s event.

“Facilitating collaboration among diaspora and domestic Caribbean entrepreneurs and their peers of African descent, mainstream North America and the UK, indigenous, other immigrant groups and entrepreneurs from other geographical areas will also be a feature of our celebration this”, said Scott.

Organizations with Caribbean roots, Mainstream Canadian and diaspora entities are invited to register to celebrate with us at: https://magatewildhorse.ca/strategy-planning-and-evaluation-for-disability-programming/ invited, Scott..

Futurpreneur is the county host for GEW Canada

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