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| Cuba Empowers Collective Use of Information Technologies
Source: MNN
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09 Feb 2009 |
Cuba Empowers Collective Use of Information Technologies
Posted: 2009/02/09
From: MNN
There are more than 1, 400, 000 IT users on the island, where key sectors are being prioritized, despite the high cost of such technologies for the country.
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 7 (acn) Cuba empowers and defends the social and collective use of Information Technologies, including Internet Connection as a way to boost the country's development.
Under that system, there are more than 1, 400, 000 IT users on the island, where key sectors are being prioritized, despite the high cost of such technologies for the country.
The development of Information Technologies is crucial to the advancement of the country, said deputy minister of IT and Communications Boris Moreno, PL news reported.
The country has improved its telecommunications infrastructure with a growing band width since last year, said Moreno, who noted that despite that fact satellite connection hardly reaches a 180-Megabyte transmission and a
302-Megabyte reception, two indicators considered as very low for real necessities of a connection, which is still very costly.
The number of IT users includes people with national and international e-mail accounts, those who navigate on Internet or on the Cuban network. The Cuban official said that the most responsible policy in that respect is
favoring collective access to IT, which has been the line followed by Cuba.
That policy includes the expansion of connections among health and research centers, universities and other key entities in Cuban economy, said Moreno, who underscored the country's will to facilitate, according to technical and economic conditions, a larger access to Internet.
By late 2008, there were some 630, 000 PCs in Cuba, which translated into an average 5,6 PC per every 100 inhabitants, with 34 percent of those equipment operating in prioritized sectors. The figure stands for 23 percent increase in respect to 2007. #
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu
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