In the early 1990s, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America investigated establishing telecommunication links among schools. This arrangement—Project Quorum—included public and private schools throughout Latin America from Chile to Mexico and was funded by IBM. As part of the project, a collaborative software system was developed called Knowledge Soup. This allowed students to create a concept map in one classroom over a local server and then join a remote Knowledge Soup with students in other schools by using the Internet.