Created as a space for promoting virtual meetings between specialists, business people, governments, international bodies and civil society, the website seeks to promote public policies, stimulate regional cooperation, monitor progress, provide analytical and technical assistance in preparing and implementing strategies for developing the information society.

The home page of this new website includes:

• eLAC Regional Action Plan 2007 approved 10 June in Rio de Janeiro by the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC )
• Access to the future platform for cooperation and dialogue for the implementation of programmes and projects associated with eLAC 2007.

This new website also offers all ECLAC publications, grouped according to the four eLAC Plan of Action themes: access to infrastructure; skills and know-how; content and public service; policy instruments.

It offers direct links to other relevant web sites, among them the World Summit on the Information Society, which will take place in Tunis, November 2005. Documents available include regional agreements such as the Bavaro Declaration (Dominican Republic, 2003) and the Rio de Janeiro Commitment (June 2005), and a calendar of events.

The programme has received financial aid from the European Union, as part of the Alliance for the Information Society's political dialogue (lis), the Institute for the Connectivity of the Americas (ICA) and IDRC (International Development Research Centre).