What is already known about this topic:
• ICTs have a transformation potential that can contribute to reducing social, cultural and economic inequalities.
• Insight into student’s literacy with ICT can be a starting point to gauge their level of digital competences and to explore or learn about the influence of such competences both at academic and personal levels.
What this paper adds:
• A digital divide has been found among university freshmen within the context that has been analyzed.
• The inequalities faced by university students towards technology are evident when we look at the scarce ICT resources available to some of them and what they are used for.
Implications for practice and/or policy:
• In order to be able to define teaching strategies and integrate ICTs within an academic setting, one must first detect and analyze the presence of such digital divide among students.
• University institutions should reinforce their available ICT resources and dynamics in order to minimize the handicap that arises from such digital divide.