Monday, April 18, 2022

The new edition of Connect Equality, with challenges on several fronts

As a result, it will have to distribute 600,000 netbooks among high-school students and teachers. In addition, the government is tendering a million more devices. It will be added to a previous the Juana Manso program, and will link with a plan that will provide connectivity to more than 12,000 schools and will bring coverage to 90% of the establishments.

President Alberto Fernández took advantage of the Opening of Congress’ Ordinary Sessions, on March 1, to give a new impulse to the Connect Equality program, launched in 2010 during the first government of Cristina Fernández, and deactivated in 2018 by the Cambiemos administration. He highlighted that this year they will distribute 600,000 computers to high school students and teachers throughout the country, and noted that another bidding process is underway to buy an additional million computers, also in 2022.

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