History of computing in South America

[3] In 1972 Brazil implemented a policy innovation strategy to encourage the economic development of the Brazilian computer industry.

Brazil's domestic computer industry was able to take significant shares of the local market from IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.

Cybersyn consisted of a Cybernet, which was a network of 500 telex machines and planned to connect every factory in the nationalized socialist economy.

[6] Today Project Cybersyn is remembered for its unique implementation of socialism and the futuristic industrial design.

In 2009, FSF founder Richard Stallman visited Buenos Aires during the concurrent Wikimania 2009 conference in order to promote free software.

[9] This program is not related to the similarly called "Yo Elijo Mi PC" program, put in place during the presidency of Michelle Bachelet which aims to bring computers to primary school students in lower socio-economical classes.