This information and communication technology (ICT) project is designed to enhance cultural awareness and appreciation by providing information (currently in Spanish only, but eventually in English as well) to students, researchers, and tourists from all over the world. GeoAméricas also promotes sustainable tourism.

The GeoAméricas internet portal uses GIS technology to give visitors access to text, 360-degree images, colourful photos, timelines, and videos of cultural, health-related, educational, tourist-oriented, and environmental sites in the Americas. While initially focused on sites in and around Medellin, Colombia, the portal will eventually have text and multimedia information for sites hemisphere-wide. PAHEF is providing the information on health facilities in the Americas, and IACDF is providing the information on cultural and tourist sites.

Through its network (GeoNet), the GeoAméricas Project (along with its partners and in coordination with local institutions and authorities) gather multimedia and information to populate the portal. To facilitate feeding information into GeoNet for the portal, GeoAméricas provides opportunities to youth for training.

Cultural Awareness, Sustainable Tourism.

Founded in 1968, PAHEF is a United States (US)-based nonprofit organisation working to build public health expertise by partnering with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the private sector, and major public health research, policy, and development groups.

Created by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as a non-profit organisation, the ICDF seeks to support cultural development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to help cultural organisations become more competitive and sustainable.