Therefore, “it was achieved a reduction of the digital breach and the technological innovation was facilitated for PyMEs (Small and Medium Companies) and entrepreneurs”, according to a report of the Industry Ministry.
The Government set in motion last year, the program Conectar Igualdad (Connect Equality), which handed out until now, 1,8 million netbooks to students and teachers of high schools and planned to hand 1,2 million computers during 2012.
**Argentina ranks first in the regional access to technologies**
A private index that measures the access to technologies placed Argentina as one of the countries in which less number of average salaries is required to purchase digital products and services, as informed by Télam on Monday.
It is elaborated by the RedUsers editorial, self-defined as the largest technological community of the region, which operates on the basis of the minimum salaries and prices of products in eight countries.
“Argentina is the country with the best index of access in the region, because it requires an average of 1,536 salaries to purchase technology”, it reported. During the last year it led the roster of notebooks and tablets, but ranked fifth in the segment of smart-phones.
RedUsers held that when adding the dollar prices of a notebook, an intelligent phone and one iPad, Argentina ranks second with 2,489 dollars, below Venezuela, that requires 3,119 dollars. Although in other countries the add of dollar prices of these three items is lower, as in Uruguay (2,040 and Brazil, 1,952), when these figures are compared with the minimum wage in each of the countries, Argentina is on top, taking into account the purchasing power of buyers.
In Argentina, 1,536 minimum salaries are required to purchase these three products, in Chile 1,683 salaries, in Colombia 1,755 and in Brazil 2,163.
