SWGO is an international proposal to build a wide-field observatory to explore the Southern Hemisphere sky in the energy range of a few hundred GeV to the PeV. Its objective is to open a new window of astronomical observation, in a field where observational coverage is currently limited to the northern hemisphere, through the HAWC and LHAASO observatories. SWGO will be installed in the Atacama Astronomical Park, in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude of 4,770 m above sea level, and will be based on an array of Cherenkov water detectors deployed over an area of 1 km2. In this presentation I will present an overview of the SWGO proposal and future plans for this instrument, as well as its financing and construction prospects, and scientific objectives.
