Connect Cuba | Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba

CONNECT CUBA!

For over ten years The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba established a program named “Connect Cuba” whose purpose fully coincide with the decision of the current Administration of the United States of creating a working group (Task Force) about this...

To Everyone Who Participated in the Hey Cuba Hackathon Presented by Connect Cuba

We just wanted to take a quick moment to thank all of the participants, volunteers, organizers, sponsors, media and hosts who contributed to the amazing Hey Cuba Hackathon last month! A special congratulations to Salvi Pascual from Apretaste! as well as all the...

PC Magazine: “Internet Access in Cuba…Still Far From Free”

PC Magazine’s April 2016 Cover Story is all about how Cubans are “bootstrapping the internet.” Their Contributing Editor, William Fenton, spent a week in Cuba recently “staying in casas particulares and asking Cubans how they use technology....

Google Has a Tough Road Ahead if it Wants to “Connect Cuba” to a Free and Open Internet

As published in Motherboard, “The most telling tidbit of information from President Obama’s visit to Cuba thus far was this disclaimer sent in an email to reporters by Laura Haim, a White House correspondent for the French TV station Canal Plus: ‘Apologies...

Cuban Regime Creates Union of “I.T. Professionals” to Defend “Sovereignty”

As published in Diario de Cuba, Havana announced on Monday the establishment of a new worker’s union specifically for information technology (I.T.) professionals “The Informatics Union of Cuba.” During the official “constitutional...