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The article presents the results of a study applied to freshmen students of the Macaracas University Annex Program, Los Santos University Regional Center of the University of Panama, in order to determine the student's digital competences. The results indicate that 80% of those surveyed surf between 1 and 3 hours a week on the Internet, 46% have access to the web anywhere since they have data packages in their phones. and the use they mostly give to the net is to look for information to do university tasks. They feel more proficient in texting to communicate with others and less proficient in creating blogs; they are able to use different browsers to access the Internet; however, they find it difficult to use software to broadcast interactive presentations on the web.