SELA REVAMPS WEB SITE

Caracas, 9 July 2015.- The Permanent Secretariat has refreshed its presence on the Internet by revamping its Web site (www.sela.org), with significant improvements both in its functions and its image, in accordance with current standards for this type of tools in order to make it more user-friendly and more efficient in retrieving contents.

With its new portal, the Permanent Secretariat optimizes its image on the Internet and incorporates features to offer to its users an environment with greater added value in terms of usability, access, navigability and timely and effective information retrieval.

Emphasis is made on the specialized portals included in SELA’s Web site, which are subdomains with their own identity and structure of contents for specific topics, such as: South-South Cooperation; Free Trade Zones in Latin America and the Caribbean; Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean; and Directory of Intergovernmental Agencies, Institutions and Organizations in the Region. Two new specialized portals will be included soon, one on the CELAC and another on the SELA-SME Programme.

SELA’s Web site offers multiple databases. The main one contains all the documents prepared by the Permanent Secretariat for its activities and it is available to the Member States of SELA and the public in general. Specifically, this tool provides access to the bibliographic description and the full text of documents containing the intellectual production of SELA, essentially consisting of informative and work documents, as well as reports on seminars, workshops and regional meetings that form part of the activities conducted by the Permanent Secretariat. In addition, it includes documents of interest for the organisation drafted by specialists as well as other regional and extra-regional entities.

The Web site also provides access to information on public policies, programmes and services aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and other subjects, as well as documentary digests addressing topics of interest on the achievements made by Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of regional integration, socio-economic development and international cooperation.