Mexico, agency
Puntos México Conectado, national digital learning centres
Mexico's communications ministry operated Puntos México Conectado centres in all 32 states, reporting more than 410,000 enrolled members and over 260,000 course enrolments by June 2017.
410,000 members, punto méxico conectado enrolled members, 2017-06. 260,000 enrolments, course enrolments reported by the network, 2017-06. Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes, Government of Mexico, retrieved 2026-09-02.
The move, and what it needed
The communications ministry put free digital classrooms in every state, then used equipment and curriculum partnerships with firms such as Samsung to turn connectivity points into places where people could practise new tools.
Preconditions
- A national network of staffed community centres rather than connectivity alone
- Public funding for access and instructors across all states
- Private partners willing to provide current equipment and course material
Where else it has been used: Digital-learning hubs travel when the state supplies trusted physical access and partners refresh the content; registrations without completion data should not be mistaken for population-wide proficiency.
Limits: The ministry reports registrations and course enrolments, not a comparable adult-skills test, completion rate or retained ability. The article is a programme announcement about a partnership and does not establish how many of the 410,000 members completed training or whether the network continued at that scale after 2017.
This record describes what Mexico delivered. It is linked to Adults doing digital tasks because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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PROSPERA, and its replacement by a new scholarship authority
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New International Airport of Mexico, and its cancellation
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The same indicator elsewhere
3 deliveries linked to Adults doing digital tasks in other countries.
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