The LINK
AMERICAS™ Foundation fosters collaborative initiatives
demonstrating the value of Technology Serving Humanity in the areas of Life, Information, Nature, Knowledge (LINK).
The foundation supports educational, environmental and social
development, and research projects that further LINK objectives by
promoting strategic alliances for systemic and sustained change.
Priority focus areas for LINK projects are educational and social media
technologies, sustainable resource development, green technologies and
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
The LINK AMERICAS™ Foundation
aims to stimulate fresh thinking by linking scholars,
policymakers, and programs that have been historically separated by
boundaries of discipline, regional specialization, methodological
tradition, and distance. Through projects, as well as sponsoring and
supporting a wide range of conferences involving academics,
policymakers, scientists, government officials, labor leaders, business
people, and others the Foundation seeks to advance new knowledge in a
world region that has become culturally, environmentally and
economically interdependent.
The LINK AMERICAS™ Foundation is on the
forefront of the nexus between innovative ICT technologies and the
benefits Green ICT applications for the
global environment. The Foundation collaborates with research
centers, local community organizations, universities, and public sector
agencies in building strategic alliances. LINK AMERICAS has formed a
collaborative relationship with the Universidad Nacional (UNA) in Costa
Rica and engages globally in furthering the dialogue among key
stakeholders.
The LINK AMERICAS™ Foundation
promotes global understanding of ICT digital literacy as the new
literacy of the 21st Century. To further knowledge and research
of digital literacy the Foundation supports the
ICT Digital Literacy
Portal. This Portal provides a rich global resource and collaborative
environment for dissemination of ICT Literacy materials, interactive
discussions, research information, and international dialogue.