Welcome to the NatureTech.Solutions web site, which is designed to enable and support Caribbean innovators to qualify for the annual NatureTech Prize. Awards are granted for open-source technical innovations that promise to increase the effectiveness of natural or cultural resource management in Caribbean small islands. The first annual award is set for US$3,000, to be awarded through the Community Foundation of the US Virgin Islands on behalf of the Potter Fund for NatureTech.Solutions (short form: NatureTech Fund) in the latter part of 2017. The NatureTech Fund is administered by the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands, and award recipients are determined by an independent Advisory Committee for the NatureTech.Solutions Fund.

This web site is planned as a tool to stimulate the NatureTech grant program, at the same time that it encourages potential participants to find better ways for decision makers to use the wide range of data, information, and knowledge resources that the information revolution is generating to promote the wise(r) use of the highly stressed marine and terrestrial resources of small islands. If you wish to comment on the concept or implementation of the NatureTech.Solutions award program, please e-mail us at NatureTech@irf.org. Details of the application process on the Guidelines page.