Access to the Information and Communication Technologies in South America in Times of COVID-19

Abstract

COVID 19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, has managed to deepen and to put on evidence, the great inequalities existing between countries such as the internal social strata regarding accessibility to education and technological services that are required to have effective distance learning. Although rural areas still have precarious basic services throughout the continent, it is enough with a single non-studying child to conclude that there is no democratization of learning access and technology. The research methodology was a bibliographic review, supported on electronic means to obtain all the relevant and available information about the subject of study. The general conclusion is that regardless of the accessibility to learning that exist in our countries, the important thing is the knowledge that remains, if this is really effective, if the teacher do the class online with the available applications, and also if he has all the technological resources, to teach the class and not only to send the weekly planning of the assignment either by mail, messaging or web platforms, without an evaluation to verify that the student has learned and passed the class or subject