The 5ᵉ edition of Fanm Dijital 2025 was dedicated to five female entrepreneurs from Martinique, whose digital projects address concrete local issues. Organized by the Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique, the ceremony was held on February 26, 2026, following a demanding selection process. Out of 49 applications submitted and 20 finalists auditioned, the jury awarded the “Gran Flanm” prize to Sabrina Ajax for a project aimed at developing the digital ecosystem supported by ASIS WI.
This award marks an important milestone in the development of an initiative born of a clear ambition: to structure a digital ecosystem linking culture, tourism and the promotion of local know-how.
Fanm Dijital 2025: a competition that has become an indicator of digital maturity
Since its inception, the Fanm Dijital 2025 competition has established itself as a strategic tool for supporting women entrepreneurs in the digital sector in Martinique. The aim is twofold: to encourage innovation by women, and to support digital solutions that meet local needs.
The 2025 edition confirms this growing momentum. The projects submitted cover a wide range of sectors, including tourism, healthcare, the circular economy and the environment. The jury, chaired by the local councillor in charge of research and innovation, assessed the soundness of the business models, the territorial impact and the capacity for deployment.
The “Gran Flanm” prize is the major award of the competition. It is awarded to a project that is already structured and capable of entering an acceleration phase. It is accompanied by a financial award of 10,000 euros from the Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique, as well as support from business partners.
ASIS WI: an ecosystem at the crossroads of media, culture and regional development
The award-winning project at Fanm Dijital 2025 is based on a simple but structuring principle: to foster connections between visitors, local residents and local players around immersive local experiences. The ASIS WI ecosystem acts as a digital framework facilitating connections between those offering know-how – crafts, gastronomy, living heritage, traditions – and a public in search of authenticity.
Over the years, more than 20,000 participants have taken part in the events organized within this framework, while the associated digital ecosystem generates almost 18,000 monthly visitors. These figures reflect a real dynamic and an ability to federate an active community.
The project is not limited to a transactional platform. It is part of a broader approach to regional structuring. By facilitating direct contact, it enables memory-bearers, craftspeople and cultural players to benefit from increased visibility and simplified access to new audiences.
MEETING WITH SABRINA AJAX
What does the Gran Flanm prize at Fanm Dijital 2025 mean to you, and how does it fit in with the development of the ecosystem you're building with ASIS WI?
This award is obviously a source of immense pride, but it also represents a very special moment for me. When I first started talking about creating an ecosystem capable of linking culture, tourism and local initiatives through digital technology, the idea sometimes seemed a little abstract, even ambitious for some.
Basically, my conviction was simple: Martinique and the Caribbean possess an extraordinary wealth of human, cultural and creative talent, but this talent is not always sufficiently visible or connected.
Through ASIS WI, we try to build these bridges. Richès Karayib helps tell the story of the region’s cultural and heritage dynamics, while Latitude 15 focuses on the air and sea ecosystems that link the Caribbean to the rest of the world.
Receiving this prize today is much more than a personal reward. It’s an encouraging signal that projects rooted in our culture, our territory and our openness to the world can also become structuring digital projects.
From ASIS WI to Richès Karayib: building an integrated ecosystem
From the outset, ASIS WI was conceived as a facilitator, a creator of links and opportunities, capable of supporting local structures in their development on a Caribbean and international scale.
However, the project was born in a particularly complex period: a fortnight before the first Covid-19 confinement. Under these conditions, we had to quickly rethink the initial trajectory and imagine other ways of creating connections between local players.
This is how the idea of Richès Karayib.
Initially, it was a blog, designed to showcase Caribbean talent and highlight the region’s initiatives, whatever the sector: culture, tourism, entrepreneurship or innovation.
Gradually, the project has gained momentum.
INTERREG co-financing has enabled us to structure and develop the platform, raise its profile and organize concrete initiatives in the Caribbean, notably through cultural events. These included a Caribbean singing competition, which provided a springboard for the development and recognition of the medium.
Today, Richès Karayib is more than just a media outlet.
It has become a veritable ecosystem, combining editorial production, networking of players, event organization and digital tools, with a clear ambition: to create links, promote talent and contribute to the influence of the Caribbean’s cultural, tourist and economic dynamics.
A prize list that illustrates the diversity of innovation in Martinique
While the “Gran Flanm” prize was awarded to Sabrina Ajax, four other female entrepreneurs were honored at Fanm Dijital 2025.
Meggan Cavalier was awarded the “Démaraj” prize for KOPA.APP, a solution designed to combat food waste by enabling businesses to offer their unsold produce at reduced prices. Today, the application federates around a hundred partners and several thousand users.
Laura Lameynardie was awarded the “Ansanm” prize for her collaborative third place in Lamentin, incorporating a Low Tech Fab Lab where projects are documented and shared in open source to encourage reproduction and transmission.
Natacha Corolus, winner of the “Lidé Nèf” prize, is developing a solution to facilitate the management of third-party payment for healthcare professionals. Since 2023, several practitioners have benefited from support to optimize debt recovery.
Maria Galbert was awarded the “An Mitan Tchè” prize for T-WAVE, an application dedicated to the health of Martinique’s coastline, integrating interactive mapping, citizen reporting and an environmental alert system.
This award shows that women’s digital innovation in Martinique is not limited to a single sector. It irrigates essential areas of economic and social development.
Institutional recognition with concrete implications
Victory at Fanm Dijital 2025 represents much more than a trophy. It represents institutional validation of a business model rooted in local realities. It also opens up prospects for acceleration, thanks to the support and partnerships associated with the competition.
At a time when digital competition is fierce, and online visibility requires structured strategies, this award reinforces the credibility of a project that has been consistently implemented. It confirms that territorial innovation can emerge from a cultural medium and evolve into a structuring economic tool.
By highlighting women entrepreneurs capable of transforming ideas into operational solutions, Fanm Dijital 2025 affirms a clear ambition: to make digital technology a concrete lever for development in Martinique.
The consecration of Sabrina Ajax (founder of Richès Karayib) is fully in line with this dynamic. It illustrates the ability of an ecosystem born of a desire to promote culture to transform itself into a structuring digital tool with territorial impact.
Fanm Dijital 2025 is the 5ᵉ edition of the competition organized by the Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique aimed at supporting and rewarding women entrepreneurs developing innovative digital solutions to serve the territory.
Sabrina Ajax was awarded the Prix Gran Flanm at Fanm Dijital 2025 for her ASSIS WI platform, a digital tool linking visitors and local players to promote Martinique’s know-how and immersive experiences.
This year, 49 projects were submitted. Twenty finalists were auditioned by the jury, and five winners were rewarded in different categories.
From November 15 to 23, 2025, Guadeloupe welcomes a new edition of the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges, an event that has become essential for understanding the cultural depth of the archipelago. This anniversary edition is particularly significant: it marks the 280th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer, conductor, virtuoso and a major figure long relegated to the margins of music history.
Through a week of concerts, encounters and transmission, this festival not only pays tribute to an exceptional musician: it reaffirms Guadeloupe’s place on the world map of classical music and offers a lively reading of Caribbean heritage.
A Guadeloupean composer with an extraordinary destiny
Born in 1745 in Baillif, on the Clairefontaine sugar plantation, Joseph Bologne crossed the XVIIIᵉ century with a trajectory that defied the social conventions of his time. The son of a French planter and an enslaved woman, he received an education in metropolitan France that was rare for a child of his status. From an early age, he distinguished himself through his dual mastery of fencing, where his virtuosity caused a sensation, and music, where his talent took on remarkable scope.
Violinist, conductor and composer, he leads one of the finest ensembles in Paris and inspires his contemporaries. His concertos, quartets and symphonies concertantes bear witness to a musical quest marked by great finesse and masterful writing. And yet, for a long time, his work suffered from an invisibility that went beyond criticism and reflected the social context of the time.
Today,the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges contributes to placing this figure at the heart of Caribbean heritage and European musical history, while recalling the importance of his legacy for the world classical scene.
A festival rooted in Guadeloupe, open to the world
From the outset, the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges has been built around three pillars:
- – memory by bringing the works of Saint-Georges to life;
- – diversity by bringing together artists from different backgrounds and regions;
- – transmission with a strong emphasis on Guadeloupe’s youth.
The 2025 edition remains true to this vision. More than 20 countries are represented this year, with musicians from the major European stages as well as from Caribbean and North American conservatories. This plurality gives the festival a profoundly international dimension, while maintaining a clear territorial anchorage: it’s in Guadeloupe that these encounters resonate, and it’s the archipelago that breathes life into the program.
An opening designed as a symbolic gesture
On November 15, the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges opens at Maryse Condé airport with an evening entitled “L’Héritage du Chevalier de Saint-Georges”. This choice of venue is not insignificant: to host a concert in a place of global traffic is to affirm that the music of Saint-Georges belongs to a heritage that transcends borders.
The program brings together composers whose works dialogue with the themes dear to Bologna: Jessie Montgomery, William Grant Still, Thierry Pécou and Trevor Weston. Actress Firmine Richard lends her voice to the stories that accompany the evening, offering a sensitive bridge between music, history and Caribbean orality.
A week where transmission takes center stage
In addition to concerts, the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges is distinguished by its structured educational programming: master classes, workshops for young instrumentalists, lectures on the links between music, history and society.
This dimension, often absent from major festivals, plays an essential role here. It enables young Guadeloupean musicians to meet international artists, gain access to training they wouldn’t necessarily have at their fingertips, and project themselves onto career paths often perceived as remote.
The 2025 edition also features a tribute to inspiring Guadeloupean women, a powerful idea that resonates with the growing role of women in conducting, composing and the music business.
The first Joseph Bologna International Violin Competition
One of the great novelties of this year’s edition is the creation of a competition dedicated to the violin, the composer’s instrument of choice. Young virtuosos from several continents perform before an international jury.
The aim of this competition is clear: to promote excellence, encourage young people and establish Guadeloupe as a major player on the classical music scene. The Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges adds a new dimension to its commitment to young artists, offering them a rare and deeply symbolic opportunity for visibility.
A finale with the voice of the New World
On November 23, the festival concludes at Hall Paul Chonchon with the “Chants du Nouveau Monde” concert, performed by the Festival Orchestra and mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel.
The program brings together Bologne, Berlioz, Lili Boulanger and Antonín Dvořák. This choice illustrates the desire of the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges to create a dialogue between the Caribbean and Europe, colonial memory and the American imagination, the intimate and the monumental. All this in a space – the Hall Paul Chonchon – that remains one of the emblematic venues of Guadeloupe’s artistic life.
An event that goes beyond music
The Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges is more than just an event for music lovers. It helps rehabilitate an essential part of Caribbean history, opens up new prospects for Guadeloupe’s youth, raises the archipelago’s international profile and reinforces the idea that the Caribbean possesses a profoundly rich artistic capital.
By bringing the Chevalier de Saint-Georges back to the forefront, Guadeloupe is asserting a clear cultural positioning: that of a territory that turns its heritage into a living force, capable of inspiring new generations and world stages alike. The message of this year’s Festival, which is consistently carried by the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges, goes beyond mere programming: it tells of a way of inhabiting memory and passing it on.
La Ressource Wellness Center reopens at last offering much more than just access to healthcare. This rehabilitation is part of an essential dynamic for the Caribbean: preserving people also means preserving the future of territories. By guaranteeing infrastructures adapted to local realities, this modernized space contributes to the attractiveness of the region, the resilience of communities and the enhancement of local heritage. A dynamic region is one where people can live, thrive and build their future.
With this reopening, Saint Lucia proves that health is a powerful lever for sustainable developmenta driving force for social cohesion and the enhancement of local resources..
A center at the heart of community life
The fire at the Ressource Wellness Center in 2015 had left a major void for the inhabitants of the Mabouya valley. Deprived of local medical care, they had to travel to other, often distant, facilities for their consultations. For almost a decade, this absence reinforced inequalities in access to healthcare, particularly affecting the vulnerable and elderly.
Today’s reopening marks a new era. Modernized and better equipped, La Ressource Wellness Center now offers an expanded range of services from general medical care and chronic disease management to specialties such as dental dental health, mental health, podiatry and men’s health. More than just a dispensary, this center is becoming a pillar of social cohesion enabling local residents to benefit from access to healthcare, regardless of distance or means.
Health and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure for Resilience
In a Caribbean facing the challenges of climate change, rural exodus and unequal access to services, the rehabilitation of infrastructures such as La Ressource Wellness Center contributes to a sustainable vision of territorial development. Access to healthcare is a key key element of sustainable development as is the preservation of cultural and natural heritage.
By strengthening the local healthcare system, Saint Lucia guarantees a better quality of life. A healthy community is better able to preserve its environment, pass on its knowledge and boost its local economy. A healthy community is better able to preserve its environment, pass on its knowledge and boost its local economy.
This initiative also illustrates the importance of investing in infrastructure adapted to island realities. Far from being just another medical center, La Ressource Wellness Center is part of a global vision that combines health, well-being and regional appeal.
Rehabilitation boosts Saint Lucia's appeal
A region that invests in health also invests in its image its image and tourism development. Saint Lucia, like many of the region’s islands, relies on an economy that values its heritage, culture, and environment. Providing modern, accessible healthcare services helps to strengthen the attractiveness of the region, both for its inhabitants and for visitors looking for new experiences authentic and responsible.
The development of tourism and well-being in the Caribbean also relies on infrastructures capable of supporting this dynamic. The Ressource Wellness Center by guaranteeing quality health services, indirectly contributes to this transformation, making the destination safer and more pleasant to live in.
A strong signal for the future of the Caribbean
With La Ressource Wellness Center, Saint Lucia is sending out a clear message: people’s well-being must be at the heart at the heart of regional development. This reopening underlines the importance of modernizing and preserving essential infrastructure to ensure a more balanced and prosperous future.
In a Caribbean where every island is seeking to strengthen its independence and resilience, this example proves that investment in health is a powerful lever for sustainable development a powerful lever for sustainable development. By focusing on inclusive initiatives tailored to local needs, the region continues to assert its identity and chart its own course towards a stronger, more united future.
Practical information:
- Opening hours: the center is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Services offered: maternal and child care, chronic disease management, general medical clinics, dental health, mental health, men’s health and podiatry.
- Location: located in the community of Dennery, Saint Lucia.
