San Luis is a more digital province of Argentina where technological innovation is combined with educational innovation. In this context, Digital Chess is an alternative that promotes implementation of the traditional teaching of chess in classrooms for 13 years, which had an impact in half of the population, evaluating annually the improvements in students' school performance.

This modality is fully inclusive for the children of the province who do not depend on the physical instructor, or materials, game, board, clock, books, etc, being only necessary connectivity and a computer device to access the best educational quality in the learning of chess.
The chess level of the students improved exponentially with their access to coaches according to each level, without leaving the house, practicing daily with children and young people from anywhere in the world and correcting errors with integrated analysis modules in the open and free platform Lichess.
We have managed to save resources and time in commuting, by organizing competitions without hiring or buying materials, furniture, referees, etc.
With regard to ongoing training, the strengthening of knowledge among professors and students in the use of ICTs, and work on platforms, from which quality monitoring is done, is observed because of the competition registers, the learning and teaching journeys are automated and stored on the platform.
In four months of work, there were trainings, management of governmental emails accounts, visits to schools, organization of competitions, etc. In this journey, the scope of Digital Chess has been 5,760 participants from 34 locations.
We are convinced that it is essential to modify study habits in order to train and motivate students in the use of technology and include them in the digital world as the Government of San Luis does. And within this context, it is important to promote recreational activities such as chess, which motivates and shapes the development of the logical thinking of individuals.

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• San Luis province, Argentina

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities
• students for primary and second education

The development and success of this initiative in San Luis is the result of the political decision to invest heavily, during the last 20 years, in infrastructure, connectivity, and in facilitating access to devices for the population, as well as training. This initiative is replicable successfully only in this context.

Digital Inclusion as a Fundamental Human Right, a commitment assumed by the Government of San Luis and embodied in the Provincial Constitution in 2011, guarantees the continued investment of public resources towards a more inclusive, digitized and innovative society.

The government of San Luis promotes strong policies against the fight against poverty, the strengthening of digital inclusion, gender equality, care for the environment, among others, through multiple initiatives and public policies. The development of a connectivity infrastructure, with a fiber optic network of more than 3,260 kilometers that allows free connectivity of the entire population throughout the territory, the delivery of devices, the development of digital platforms and ICT training they contribute strongly in these purposes. States that invest in ICT and develop development police improve the quality of life of the population. To date, those who have gained the most were those who could access the digital world.