The OAS Alliance with ProFuturo aims to contribute to the strengthening and advancement of public policies on digital education in Latin America and the Caribbean. To this end, it articulates actions between the ProFuturo Program and the Educational Portal of the Americas, designing activities that promote intersectoral educational dialogue.
This Alliance was presented in 2017 during the IX Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education of the OAS, and it was formalized in 2018, with the signing of a collaboration agreement between the OAS General Secretariat, through the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) and the Inter-American Committee on Communications (CITEL), and the ProFuturo Program, an initiative of Fundación Telefónica and Fundación La Caixa.
The Alliance seeks to contribute to the fulfillment of the objectives outlined in three main political mechanisms of the Inter-American System:
- The Second Phase of the Inter-American Education Agenda, agreed upon by the Ministries of Education of the OAS Member States for 2022-2027. In particular: 1) Recovery, repair, and reactivation of the post-pandemic education sector, 2) Use of new technologies in education and the digital educational agenda, and 3) Professional development and teacher training.
- The ICT 2030 AMERICAS Alliance, promoted by CITEL and signed in June 2016 between the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, and the main telecommunications companies in Latin America, seeks to contribute to the fulfillment of the objectives of the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030, through the fight against poverty through the integration of ICTs into the national policies of OAS member states.
- Article 26 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, establishes guidelines for civil society participation in OAS activities and hemispheric debate.