The educational policies of digital inclusion: A brief tour of the programs Connect Equality, Learn Connected and the emerging Juana Manso Federal Plan

Abstract

In recent decades, numerous educational experiences of digital inclusion have burst into Latin America, understood as part of the "floor.of rights that the State must guarantee. In this context, the “Conectar Igualdad Program” arose in 2010, during the Fernández de Kirchner Presidency. Adopting the 1 to 1 model, he set out to reduce the digital and social Gap in public secondary schools. However, as of 2016, this program entered a transition stage that ended with the arrival of the “Aprender Conectados Program” (2018), moving away from the 1-to-1 model and focusing on school equipment and digital literacy. During 2020, the Juana Manso Federal Plan arises, in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic, trying to retake some traces of connecting Equality.
Based on them, we propose to describe the digital inclusion policies in Argentina and subsequently identify the changes and continuities. To fulfill the objectives, we will develop a methodological strategy that includes a review of the main contributions of the relevant literature, an analysis of official documents and an interpretation of specific normative instruments, mixed with information obtained from in-depth interviews.