Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Guest post: The Digital Transformation of Cuba's Reconstruction: A Geopolitical and Human Approach

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Cuba's Digital Transformation (DT) must be understood not only as a national challenge, but also as a geopolitical opportunity in the co...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Cuban undersea cable politics

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Note: This was posted at the time the cable installation began on my general Internet blog, It is belatedly published here. Larry ----- Unde...
Friday, September 3, 2021

The long-run effect of Cuba's recent Internet-augmented protests

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Neither tweets and Facebook video clips nor the repetition of tired slogans from Granma are likely to convince many Cubans to change their m...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

SpaceX Starlink comes to South America

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This one-year pilot study in rural Chile will be productive and successful. Starlink antenna on the roof of the John F. Kennedy school Space...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Cuban Internet in the aftermath of the anti-government protests

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Before the protests, around 18 thousand Cubans used the Psiphon VPN per day. Now its holding steady at around 166 thousand per day. In an ea...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Time for a change in our Cuban Internet strategy

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In a post last week, I advised Cuban President Díaz-Canel that investment in fixed broadband Internet would benefit both the Cuban people a...
Monday, July 19, 2021

President Díaz-Canel, The Cuban Internet is more than Facebook on a cell phone -- don't be afraid of it.

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The Internet could and should be controlled and used to serve peace and development. Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Cuban Minister of Informatics ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Internet during the anti-government protests in Cuba

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On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans, took to the streets in anti-government protests triggered by COVID, the faltering economy and an o...
Monday, March 22, 2021

A look at Cuba's digital revolution

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In spite of having slow, expensive, government-controlled Internet infrastructure, Cuba is undergoing what Ted Henken and Sara Garcia Santam...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

SpaceX's Starlink service in Cuba would benefit the Cuban people, SpaceX, and the US.

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SpaceX has begun the process of securing licenses to operate its Starlink Internet service in the Caribbean. I don't know which nations...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A simple suggestion for President Biden regarding the Cuban Internet

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President Biden has a lot on his plate, but having someone pursue a Cuban undersea cable would be simple and benefit both Cuba and the US. ...