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2 About 60 years ago, a literate person was somebody who could understand what he read and who expressed himself in written form. This definition is no longer suitable.

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Economically, and thus socially and educationally, the world is divided, broadly speaking, in three different and distinctive country hierarchies:  developed,  developing and  under-developed countries. 4

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6 The place where the student lives determines the level of access to information, technology, health, and educational content.

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11 With the money of the Japanese Donation T.F.O , a survey was carried out with the purpose of obtaining information about the location and “context” of access and connection; update basic data about pedagogic, students' registration and teaching availability.

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14 These rural schools normally have just one room that is shared by all the students attending it, where all of them have instruction at the same time with the only teacher that is in charge of the school.

15 Some of the students live so far away from the place that it takes even 4 hours walk to reach the school and they need to stay the night there, even the week, returning to their homes in the weekends.

16 One of the first steps is to provide the schools with solar panels or other sources of energy required to have electricity so as to have the source for the computers…

17 …and internet access so that the students may participate in specially designed e- learning courses to cater for needs.

18 Greenpeace is working on a program called “Solidarity Energy” in order to provide energy to isolated rural schools.

19 A National Program will provide 85 Rural Schools in Corrientes (north East Province) with solar energy.

20 e-learning will provide them with extra material for the different courses, so as to complement what the teacher is already doing, and, in that way, the content will be leveled to the content of the schools in the cities.

21 At the same time, students who have already finished the primary education will receive complete secondary instruction through e-learning

22 INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology) is helping local people to use the natural resources better to avoid migration, but training is carried out face to face. It may be offered online with the possibility of reaching more people.

23 In a next step, and according to the social and economical needs and possibilities of the local area, short courses related to them will be developed and implemented with e- learning mode.

24 Thus, young people from the area will have the opportunity to remain in the hometowns with their families cutting down the amount of migration towards the big cities.

Progress evaluations and controls of the project will be carried out in three opportunities to detect any weak points and make the necessary changes: at the beginning of the project, in July –winter holidays for the schools- and in December, end of the scholar year.

After the implementation and the correction of possible deviations, an analysis of the results will be done so as to determine the feasibility to adopt this methodology and apply it at a National level. The results will also be informed to all the countries under the same conditions of Argentina, and help arising from experience will be offered to them for the implementation of the plan if they decided to put it into action.

Collaborators: Quillén Villadeamigo Joao Alvez – Webhead from Portugal