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No More “Droplets of Internet” for the Cuban People: Let’s Tear Down the Cyber Wall

An article on June 30th from El Nuevo Herald as well as the follow-up in Newsweek on July 13th highlights recent Cuban government meetings with several Google executives on the possibilities of bringing massive Internet to Cuba. Brett Pelmutter, a top Google Ideas...

Cuba’s Internet: Flying a Kite on a String

The Cuban government owned telecommunications provider Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) apparently released an inequitable Internet plan for the Cuban populace. “The plan”, revealed on the website La Chiringa de Cuba on June 24th, states ETECSA will...

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...

Cuba’s regime is calling on the UN for an “urgent” action against the “threats” of the Internet

According to Diario de Cuba, “The regime in Havana on Wednesday called on the United Nations to take ‘effective and urgent’ steps to deal with ‘new threats related to information and communications technology.'”Havana denounced “the...

Perspective: The Internet as “a space for diversity and freedom of expression”

According to CubaNet’s Ernesto Perez Chang, “faced with the problem of the limits on access to the Internet in Cuba, one would have to wonder not how much the Cuban government invests in expanding the reach of this information tool, essential in our time,...