The Workshop, which was organized by the UNESCO Office in Quito, trained 38 experts from 18 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to become portal editors researching, compiling and publishing information on their countries’ tangible and intangible heritage. The editors will also be promoting the project in their countries creating a network of collaborators.

The new web based service aims at providing a regional vision of heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean through a single entry point to information on all types of heritage that until now can only be found isolated on different websites. The portal’s computing platform that supports Spanish, Portuguese and English versions of the website has been developed by Alfa-Redi, an NGO of “cyber-attorneys”.