Objective
The Federation´s Mission Statement is to promote development of ICTs in the Latin America and Caribbean region, support initiatives that reduce the digital divide in this geographical area, and represent the ICT private sector of this region in the corresponding international fora, such as: * WSIS – World Summit of the Information Society * IGF – Internet Governance Forum *History
eCOM-LAC organized two regional electronic commerce summits, the first in São Paulo (March 2000), and the second in Buenos Aires (April 2001). Amongst the keynote speakers who participated, we can highlight the presence of Mr.Executive Board
*President: Oscar Messano (CABASE) *Vice President: Eduardo Parajo (ABRANET) *Secretary: Osvaldo Novoa (ANTel) *Treasurer: José Pedro Derrégibus (CNCS)Members
*ABRANET – Associação Brasileira dos Provedores de Accesso, Serviços e Informações da Rede *ANTEL – Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Uruguay) *ASSESPRO – Associação das Empresas Brasileiras de Tecnologia da Informação *CABASE – Cámara Argentina de Bases de Datos y Servicios en Línea *CANADECO – Cámara Nacional de Comercio y Servicios del Uruguay *Intersys (Uruguay)eCOM-LAC's cooperation agreements
In 2006, eCOM-LAC became a member of Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), a global entity that focuses on sharing knowledge and building partnerships, for ICT4D and poverty reduction worldwide. In April 2008, eCOM-LAC was elected as GKP Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean..lat domain initiative
The Internet continues growing day by day. Internet users need to identify and differentiate themselves, even beyond their region, to reflect their identity in their cultural, social and business activities. The DNS through the TLDs continues providing unique identification to machines, services and internet users on the Web. This identification is traditionally associated with its country of origin or its prime activity like commerce, education and government. Users need choice. In response to this need, in recent years we have seen the emergence of some new top-level domains such as: ‘.biz’, ‘.info’, ‘.name’, ‘.travel’, ‘.mobi’, and significantly the regional identity TLDs – ‘.eu’, and ‘.asia’ and cultural identity TLDs like ".cat". These two latter domains, which are enjoying significant success, provide registrants with an option to register domain names establishing a regional or cultural identity on the Internet, as compared for example, to national identity by registering their domain names under a country code top-level domain. To give Latin-American and Caribbean individuals and organizations from all over the world a new choice to identify themselves with the rest of the internet, eCOM-LAC in partnership with NIC Mexico, applied for delegation of a new top-level domain – ‘.lat’. This TLD was launched in 2019.External links