The program Conectar Igualdad is an initiative seeking to retrieve and enhance public school with the objective of reducing digital, educational and social gaps all over the country.
This is a state policy created under Decree 459/10, and implemented jointly by Office of the President, the National Social Security Administration (ANSES), the Ministry of Education’s Office, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services.
Conectar Igualdad, as a digital inclusion policy of federal reach, will travel around the country distributing three million netbooks, in the 2010-2012 period to each student and teacher of public High Schools, of Schools of Special Education and Teacher Training Institutes. At the same time digital contents will be developed to be used in didactic proposals and in teacher education processes in order to transform learning and teaching paradigms, models and processes.
The program contemplates the use of netbooks both at school and at home so as to make an impact on the daily lives of all families and most diverse communities in Argentina.
Bearing this in mind, it is essential to work towards a literate society based on the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with the possibility of a democratic access to technological and information resources regardless of the social or economic group or population densities or the most diverse rural and urban geographies.
Because we can all be part of a social inclusion program called to make a revolutionary change in education media. Conectar Igualdad, a new school on the move, a fairer Argentina.
