Jorge Ferragut for Connect Cuba
Actor Jorge Ferragut discusses the importance of connecting Cuba because, Cuba is very much like a movie “set in a dystopian future where there is very little information, and the information that does exist, is controlled by the government.”...
Does Google Ideas have its sights set on connecting Cuba?
As published in Yoani Sánchez recent post for 14ymedio, and other sources, Brett Perlmutter, an executive at Google Ideas is visiting Cuba this week. It is at least the third time team members from Google Ideas have visited the island during the past 12 months.As...
Connect Cuba breaking barriers on the island of the disconnected
The Connect Cuba campaign has teamed up with the Latin American Federation of Rural Women in Cuba (FLAMUR) to distribute dvds in rural parts of Cuba as part of the “Internet without Internet” project. This collaboration has resulted in the ability of...
Cuba and the Internet: A question of business and human rights
As published in NPR, “when Cuban bikini maker Victor Rodríguez visited Miami this month, he was on a pilgrimage — not just for bathing suits but for bandwidth.””The most important stop on Rodríguez’s schedule was lunch in Wynwood, Miami’s...