Government, Wind Tre, Vodafone, Tim agreement –

From today, female students will be able to follow the teaching at a distance without consuming the data traffic of mobile phone subscriptions.

The ministers of Education Lucia Azzolina, for Equal Opportunities and the Elena Bonetti Family, of Economic Development Stefano Patuanelli and Paola Pisano for Technological Innovation and Digitization, have in fact invited the main mobile telephone operators to identify solutions that facilitate boys in following lessons remotely.

Tim, Vodafone and Wind Tre have accepted the Government’s invitation and will exclude distance learning platforms from the gigabyte consumption foreseen in the subscriptions.

“When we face an emergency like the one we are experiencing, everyone’s support is really needed – said the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina – From March to today the State has already invested over 400 million for digital at school. Initiatives like this reinforce the commitment to support female students and students. I thank those who joined the project ”.

The Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Bonetti Family stressed that “the impact, including economic, of distance learning on families, already heavily tested by the consequences of the pandemic, is a knot to which the institutions owe a response made up of concrete solutions. The synergy achieved today with telecommunications companies is a step that looks especially at family situations of greatest hardship, which are those most severely exposed to the risk of social exclusion and educational poverty. The priority remains that of guaranteeing equal opportunities of access to a primary right, education, to all female students of our country and avoiding with every effort educational gaps which are difficult to fill for our children ”.

“As in the first phase of this pandemic, the telecommunications companies are collaborating with the Government to ensure continuity of the connection service, maintaining high levels of assistance and facilitating, for all families, essential activities such as smartworking and teaching at a distance – added Patuanelli, Minister of Economic Development – Connectivity has become an essential element of social inclusion and is confirmed to be increasingly essential for the growth and development of the country ”.

The Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitization Pisano thanked the telecommunications companies “for having responded promptly and positively to the invitation addressed to them by the Government. We are called to face complex challenges such as training our young people with distance learning. The most effective way to do it – he added – and also the most ethical is to create solidarity projects in which public and private pool their energies for the interest of the community ”.