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A proposal for digital inclusion in Argentina
Stein, Natalia y Haddad, Verónica.
32° Congreso Internacional del CIRIEC (Centro Internacional de Investigación e Información sobre la Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa). CIRIEC Bélgica, Liege, 2018.
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This paper?s aim is to show the ways in which a public policy turned into a programme with funding and projects which facilitated the digital inclusion of hundreds of thousands of people throughout Argentina. The Programme My PC was established to contribute to the national policy of social inclusion by reducing the digital gap throughout the country. It contributed with access policies to the ICTs and, in order to do so, the programme developed the strategy of setting up IT Learning and Access Centers (CEAs ? Centros de Enseñanza y Acceso Informático) from the year 2006 onwards. The CEAs were public centers for access and training in these technologies that were physically set up within various Civil Society Organizations sites. Those linked to the development of ventures and social-productive processes related to the social and solidarity economy were prioritized, set up in districts or neighbourhoods presenting social-economic vulnerability or distant from urban areas. The project was launched in 2006 and received funding from the National Government and from the United Nations Argentine Development Programme. The team had their offices in the Ministry of Economy and consisted of 6 people with a Coordination. This small team worked alongside officials from other Ministries and various regions picking up on their requests in order to assess and assign resources to set up IT Access and Learning Centers throughout the country.The IT Access and Learning Centers were launched in 2006 and, by August, 2010, they were already helping over 200,000 people throughout Argentina, offering e-training to vulnerable children and youngtsters and contributing to the training of teachers and informal education trainers that could, in turn, facilitate e-learning in the farthest corners of the country. The Programme has had a massive effect on the population of the areas served by CEAs, and has also helped to develop and support social-productive ventures and social economy management. In some cases, the centers were set up in local cooperative organizations.This initiative from the Ministry of Economy also laid the foundation for the Programme Conectar Igualdad (Connecting Equality), implemented by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, with the aim of providing netbooks to students of all schools in order to facilitate their education and give them access to the internet.Like many other social inclusion public policies implemented in Argentina in the period between 2003-2015, there was not much publicity that reflected the social effect it had, nor was there any memory articulated with other public policies it generated synergy with in order to widen results. The 2003-2015 government failed in so much as their communications policy could not show the effect that inclusion policies were achieving and the concomittant beneficial effects for the whole of Argentine society, especially to the middle/upper classes.Nowadays the Programme My PC is interrupted and the activities carried out by the Programme Connecting Equality have been modified. It hands out more netbooks to students in the City of Buenos Aires where the social-economic level is higher rather than to those students from more vulnerable communities who used to be the original target of the Programme.The methodology used for this paper consists of data collected from the Internet, experiences recounted by officials and stakeholders involved in the Programme and interviews conducted with those who worked in the programme and some actors who manage the centers that are still functioning in various locations.
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