The complete cycle, not just the storm.
CaribeAlert covers everything around the event: preparing before it, learning after it, and improving for the next one. Here is what we are building — openly, in phases.
The pillars
Eight building blocks of regional resilience
Each pillar is scoped to a phase. Nothing here operates yet — this page is our public commitment to what gets built, in which order, and with whom.
Resilience Library
Structured post-event reports every island can read: shelters, communications, road access, hotel and guest handling, airport recovery, utility restoration, volunteer efforts, and the problems that must never happen again.
Regional Lessons Register
Every recurring issue recorded in a fixed format — issue, root cause, solution, status, and availability to other islands — so a problem solved once is a problem solved for the region.
Caribbean best practices
Regional preparedness standards instead of thirty-four separate manuals: airport checklists, hotel readiness, vacation rental guest guides, and restaurant continuity — written once, adapted locally.
Collaboration Network
Designated contributors on each island — emergency management, tourism, airports, ports, utilities, health, hospitality associations, and the Red Cross — sharing knowledge with one another, not just publishing alerts.
Alert information, done to standard
Emergency and weather information aligned with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and sourced from official agencies — designed for low bandwidth and multilingual delivery, because that is when it matters most.
State of Caribbean Resilience
The annual regional report: storms, recovery times, power and airport downtime, tourism recovery, improvements made, training completed, and funding received.
Training Academy
Free courses for government teams, responders, hotels, vacation rentals, restaurants, taxi drivers, tour guides, airports, schools, and community volunteers — with certificates issued jointly with regional partners over time.
Innovation & Research Hub
One home for Caribbean-built solutions — shelter designs, flood sensors, emergency Wi-Fi, drone mapping, AI translation — and for regional research from universities, agencies, insurers, and development banks.
Principles
How it will be built
- Complementary by design. CaribeAlert supports the region's official institutions — national disaster offices, CDEMA, meteorological services — and never replaces or competes with their mandates.
- Verified knowledge. Contributed reports are validated by designated island contributors against a shared after-action template before publication. Open community input is welcome, and clearly distinguished from verified content.
- Standards first. Alert information follows the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP); reports follow a common structure so lessons are searchable and comparable across islands.
- Multilingual. The Caribbean speaks English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Papiamento and more. Regional infrastructure must too.
- Built for the worst day. Fast, lightweight pages that work on a damaged network — because the moment this knowledge matters most is right after infrastructure fails.