While approximately 55% of the households in the highest income quintile (average for 13 countries of Latin America) have a computer connected to the Internet, only 26% of the households in the first income quintile do.5 In general, studies show that despite this segmented access to technology, children and young people are entering the world of technology in greater numbers. In households with 13-to-19-year-oIds, connectivity is rising at a faster rate than in households where all members are over 20. A look at the figures shows that in the countries of the region where technology is more market-driven (such as Brazil, Chile and Uruguay) the class gaps foryounger-generation users are not narrowing. They are widening (see figure II. In Uruguay, for example, the connectivity gap between households with younger members in the highest and lowest quintiles is more than 80 percentage points.