The background for the priviledged position ICDE has now aquired with OAS must again be sought in the patient and long-term building of actitivities, cooperation, visibility and reputation of ICDE all over Latin America.

The Organization of American States (“OAS”) established the IACD as an entity for the promotion, coordination, management, and facilitation of the planning and execution of partnership for development projects, programs and activities within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Partnership of its Inter-American Council for Integral Development (“CIDI”). The IACD’s objective is to become a leading supplier of technical cooperation and training in the Latin American region to accelerate the pace of economic development and to address the issues of poverty reduction and social imbalances, and that it seeks to achieve that mandate by developing projects that attract private sector experience and financing so as to expand beyond traditional grants and thus leverage available project funding.           

The purpose of the Agreement between ICDE and IACD is to establish a mechanism of general and special cooperation for coordinating the activities to strengthen education and training in the Americas through the application of information technology.

ICDE will collaborate with the IACD in the design and development of socio-educational, economic and cultural initiatives that promote access to knowledge, learning and training through the use of information technology, particularly for those in low-income populations and remote communities of the Caribbean.  

This agreement opens the doors for ICDE to become a very important advisor to IACD on cooperative efforts with regional partners, and on methods to modernize the educational systems of Latin America.

23 August 2004