d with a teaching community where 90% had no previous ICT experience, Microsoft Uruguay worked with the Council of Primary Education and other expert partners to develop a portal to deliver online training. The training includes demonstrating the basic concepts of distance learning, showing how ICT can be integrated into the core curricula and teaching educators how to use computers in the classroom environment.
2011 - The U.S. Department of State in partnership with the Government of Uruguay launched TechCamp Montevideo, a project aimed to provide training to organizations working on education issues such as teacher training, digital literacy among students, and the provision of education to marginalized communities.
2014 - Beyond Access in collaboration with the Uruguay National Library and ANTEL launched a new digital inclusion project to provide ICT services to communities through public libraries. It will also provide computers, Internet access, and training programs to 10 participating libraries.
2016 - First national Internet Governance Forum of Uruguay is scheduled to be held on 17 May 2016.
Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescente (INN)
A specialized body of the Organization of American States (OAS) on children and adolescents policy that provides guidance to the different states on how they must assume protection.
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. Its mission is to enable police forces to collaborate globally to fight crime in the Internet age. Three areas of focus are crimes against children (with a focus on internet crimes and travelling sex offenders), cybercrime and human trafficking.
Latin American Network of Educational Portals (La Red Latinoamericana de Portales Educativos – RELPE)
Formed in 2004 by an agreement of the Ministries of Education from sixteen Latin American countries, a network of educational portals, allowing the collaboration and sharing of educational content between the member countries. It also provides for the construction of standards and methodologies of processes to position the network as a benchmark in the region and the world on collaborative management of educational content.
Latin American Network of ICT and Education (Red Iberoamericana de TIC y Educación – RIATE)
This organization promotes bilateral or multilateral cooperation for development through the exchange of information, initiatives and projects that promote the integration of ICT in education in 21 countries.
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
A nonprofit organization launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, whose aim to empower the world’s poorest children through education by providing a low cost laptops.
The Ministry of Education and Culture
It is responsible for all public schools in the Republic and the running of the country’s MEC Centers to increase digital literacy.
The Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents to the Safe and Responsible Use of New ICTs - RedNATIC
It comprises a joint group of organizations from across Latin America. Its member organizations assume as shared the principles of the statements contained in the Theoretical Framework for the rights of children and teens to a Safe and Responsible Use of ICT.
State Party Examination of Uruguay’s Initial Report on the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2015)Committee on Rights of the Child
Initial periodic report after the ratification of the Optional Protocols on the sale of children, child prostitution and Child Pornography on 03 July 2003.
Protecting Children from Cybercrime (2015)Simone dos Santos Lemos Fernandes, Legal Consultant, Global Forum on Law Justice and Development (GFLJD), Legal Vice Presidency, World Bank
This report studies different Latin American countries’ legislation on the prevention and combat of violence against children on the internet. It also identifies gaps and good practices on the protection of children from cybercrime.
Committee on the Rights of the Child Reviews 12 countri