In addition to the on-campus maker spaces, the program’s online platform will facilitate knowledge sharing within and between CCE Hubs in the region. This digital infrastructure will connect entrepreneurs and partners to collaborate on business development. It will use digital technologies for training, data collection, mentorship sessions, and startup impact and development reporting.

McAuliffe was appointed by President Joe Biden to lead the Office of Global Partnerships in the U.S. Department of State. 

Her office directly supports the Biden Administration’s commitment to U.S. global leadership by assembling public-private partnerships to advance key national security and foreign policy priorities. 

U.S. Department of State stated that McAuliffe leads on partnership building efforts that achieve the administration’s policy objectives by advancing public-private collaborations that spearhead new technology and innovation, support entrepreneurship and economic development, combat climate change and strengthen energy security, promote gender equity and human rights, and counter malign influence across the globe.

She has forged these partnerships by engaging a diverse set of stakeholders including civil society, business, non-profit, diaspora, academic, philanthropic, faith-based, and other private sector leaders, authorities added. 

McAuliffe is one of many prominent U.S. government executives who have lately visited Costa Rica.  Last month, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with President Rodrigo Chaves regarding plans to expand the semiconductor sector.

In March, General Laura Richardson, Commander of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), visited Costa Rica to announce the donation of ports 'scanners.