Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2015 Winner

Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean


Description

eLAC2015, is long term vision plan -2015- according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the WSIS, which states that ICT’s are instruments for economic development and social inclusion. eLAC2015 was approved at the third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, in November of 2010, in Lima, Perú. During the fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, held in April 2013, in Montevideo, Uruguay, governments of the region adopted the Montevideo Declaration and the 2013-2015 Work Plan for the eLAC2015 implementation.

Project website

http://www.cepal.org/elac2015/documentos/


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C11. International and regional cooperation 2015
Millennium development goals related to this project
  • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Coverage
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Aruba
  • Netherlands Caribbean
  • Barbados
  • Bahamas
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Belize
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • Guadeloupe
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • French Guiana
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • Martinique
  • Montserrat
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Suriname
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uruguay
  • The United States Virgin Islands
  • Venezuela
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Latin America and the Caribbean

Status

Completed

Start date

01 December 2010

End date

07 August 2015


Entity name

ECLAC

Entity country—type

Chile International Organization

Entity website

http://www.cepal.org/elac2015/

Partners

Argentina Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia Brasil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras México Nicaragua Panamá Paraguay Perú Rep. Bolivariana de Venezuela República Dominicana Uruguay Antigua y Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Cuba Dominica Grenada Guadalupe Haití Islas Caimán Islas Turcas y Caicos Islas Vírgenes Jamaica Martinica República Dominicana San Bartolomé San Cristóbal y Nieves San Vicente y las Granadinas Santa Lucía Trinidad y Tobago ALETI-Information Technology Federation for Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal LACNIC Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre APC-Association for Progressive Communications AHCIET, American Association of Research Centers and Telecommunication Enterprises The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC