Desigualdad digital y usos de Internet en telecentros públicos

The following work explores the possibilities of appropriation of the users who go to Digital Inclusion Spaces (EID), local telecentres provided by the state company ANTEL as part of the ICT social policies of Uruguay. Through a census of users and multivariate analysis techniques, we seek to know what uses Internet users make of these spaces, how much this initiative fulfills the tasks of reducing the digital divide, understood in its complex conception. According to the findings, digital appropriation occurs according to different socio-demographic profiles of the users of the EID, being women and the most educated young people who benefit the most from the use of the Internet in these spaces. We conclude that the contribution to the reduction of the digital divide is achieved in relation to a very limited group of users.