The PRI seeks to guarantee digital education for all students in Mexico

Lázaro Cuauhtémoc Jiménez, federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), proposed to ensure that digital education is included in educational institutions in the Mexican State, with the intention of improving the skills of millions of girls and boys before communication technologies.

In order to achieve this goal, the secretary of the Commission on Federalism and Municipal Development in the Lower House proposed amending Article 3 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM), which promotes public, free and secular education for all Mexicans.

The initiative with the draft decree establishes that the State, at its three levels of government, will teach and ensure that digital education is included in the curricula and programs of study, this in view of the need to generate citizens who are versed in the tools that allow access to information circulated on the Internet.

During the explanatory statement, the graduate of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla pointed out that it is necessary for digital education to be recognized as a constitutional right, since only in this way can it be effectively exercised and, once recognized, will it allow learners, as subjects of the right to education digital, can require the State at its three levels of government to ensure the use and enjoyment of this right.

He also argued that this type of education policy contributes to the reduction of inequality, since one of the objectives of education is to provide equal opportunities to people because of attracting individual and collective well-being.

He also pointed out as negative the lack of knowledge of how to search for information on the web, the dangers of digital communication, developing new communication skills and the rights and obligations they have as users of the internet and social networks.

He added that, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), in 2020 there were 84.1 million internet users, representing 72% of the population aged six and older. Among the main activities carried out are communication 93.8%, searching for information 91% and accessing social networks 89 percent.

For this reason, the PRI legislator considered digital education necessary and that it should be guaranteed by the State. In this regard, he affirmed that the current digital context must be recognized, as well as the constant and permanent dynamism in which we live, since only in this way is it possible to establish the necessary legal norms that allow us to meet the needs, aspirations and priorities that our society requires.

Under the slogan of reducing the digital divide between the underprivileged population, the deputy recalled that the General Law on Education has not provided sufficient conditions to consolidate digital education as a fundamental right. Finally, the initiative was sent to the Committee on Constitutional Points for its correct opinion and then voted in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies.

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