The Ministry of Education of the Nation reported this Monday that during June they distributed more than 140 thousand netbooks for students of the 24 jurisdictions in the framework of Connect Equality Programas part of a “right that all students have in a government that wants them to have more rights.”
“We decided that all the girls and all the boys in the public high school have a computer to studyto learn, but also to play, write, get to know, express themselves, they are to make music and to play with others,” said the area minister, Jaime Perczyk.
And he added that it is “a law that each and every student has in a government that wants them to have more rights”.
Connect Equality is a program of the National Ministry of Education and a federal digital inclusion policy that includes the distribution of educational and technological material and the deployment of connectivity actions.
In turn, the initiative seeks to “recover and enhance public schools in order to reduce digital, educational and social gaps throughout our country,” according to the ministry.
The program, which distributes computers on a one-to-one basis to high school and special education students in public schools, aims to guarantee young people’s access to new technologies.
Likewise, through Connect Equality, this year Internet connection is planned for 90% of students throughout the country, in order to guarantee access to the service and its availability for public schools in the national territory.
