DYA launches its Digital Rights Literacy Project in Misiones

This week marked a milestone for DYA in the province of Misiones: Helga Fourcade, Director of DYA Argentina, visited the municipality of Aristóbulo del Valle and signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement with Mayor Juan McDonald to launch the project Digital Literacy with Rights.

The agreement establishes a joint commitment between the municipality and the organization to reduce the digital divide affecting children and adolescents in the area, where more than 35% of households lack quality internet access and many students reach secondary school without basic digital skills.

The project, implemented within the framework of the N-PNP program, aims to design and deliver a digital literacy pedagogical tool tailored to the local context, which will be piloted in secondary schools in Aristóbulo del Valle between June and December 2026. The intervention goes beyond technological access: it also addresses issues such as grooming, mental health, and critical use of social media, recognizing that digital education with a rights-based approach is a key tool for protecting and expanding opportunities for adolescents.

During the visit, the DYA team also met with Cielo Linares, Pedagogical Coordinator of the School of Innovation, and Dr. Rosaura Barrios, researcher at CONICET, who are joining the participatory design process for the pedagogical tool. This interdisciplinary team will be essential in building a rigorous, territorially grounded methodological proposal, developed together with teachers and students from Aristóbulo, that can be systematized and replicated in other schools across the province.

The process will be organized in three key phases: participatory design workshops with teachers and local stakeholders, piloting of the tool in one or two secondary schools with different profiles, and validation and systematization of results. By the end of the year, two documents will be produced: the complete methodological tool and the systematization of the pilot experience, both designed to support scaling the project to the provincial level in 2027.

This new phase deepens the work DYA has been carrying out in Misiones for years around child labor prevention and educational inclusion, particularly in the yerba mate sector. The alliance with the municipality, academia, and the local education system reaffirms the organization's commitment to building territorial, sustainable, rights-based solutions for children and youth in the region.