Cuba USA
I interviewed an anonymous Internet user for my report on the state of the Internet in Cuba. I was curious about control over access to information and services at various locations.
He told me that domestic email and Web pages can be accessed from all locations. International email is blocked at the Youth Computer Clubs (YCCs) and some work places. He said there is no international web access at the YCCs, and Web sites are filtered at other locations. (See Table 6 in the report). Of course this is anecdotal -- only one person's experience. (Have you had a different experience in Cuba)?
Can we get better data using a survey? I don't know if we can get much response, but let's try one.
Several comments in a previous post on Alan Gross said that many people in Cuba have illegal access to Direct TV, a popular satellite television service for US homes. Underground TV might be more important than underground Internet access. To learn a little more, I set up a two-minute survey on illegal TV in Cuba in English and in Spanish.
If you are in Cuba or have been there recently, please complete the anonymous survey.
Also, since many people do not have Web access, please forward the following versions to others using email:
I will post a summary of whatever results we have in one month.
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Cuba USA
Gathering data from within Cuba
He told me that domestic email and Web pages can be accessed from all locations. International email is blocked at the Youth Computer Clubs (YCCs) and some work places. He said there is no international web access at the YCCs, and Web sites are filtered at other locations. (See Table 6 in the report). Of course this is anecdotal -- only one person's experience. (Have you had a different experience in Cuba)?
Can we get better data using a survey? I don't know if we can get much response, but let's try one.
Several comments in a previous post on Alan Gross said that many people in Cuba have illegal access to Direct TV, a popular satellite television service for US homes. Underground TV might be more important than underground Internet access. To learn a little more, I set up a two-minute survey on illegal TV in Cuba in English and in Spanish.
If you are in Cuba or have been there recently, please complete the anonymous survey.
Also, since many people do not have Web access, please forward the following versions to others using email:
- A text version of the survey, in Spanish
- A Microsoft Word version of the survey, in Spanish
I will post a summary of whatever results we have in one month.
- Interviews Of Etecsa Officials
Juventud Rebelde published a summary of what seems to have been a three hour online question and answer session between their readers (at least the ones with Internet access :-) and ETECSA officials. They talked about ETECSA's data center, which has...
- Annual Report On Cuban Ict
The Cuban National Statistics Office reports over one million computers and twice as many .CU domain names as the previous year. The Cuban National Statistics Office has released their 2014 Information and Communication Technology report. Here are the...
- Fidel Likes The Internet, But Does That Matter?
A recent story on Fidel Castro's 87th birthday calls him a "soldier of ideas on the Internet," who, according to his biographer and book editor, Katuiska White, surfs the Internet for "personality profiles, maps, monographs, data, anecdotes and recollection...
- Guest Post On Learning About Computers In Cuba
This 1991 note, in which Fidel Castro writes that he feels envy, hangs in a frame on the wall of the Youth Computer Club (YCC) headquarters in the one-time Sears building in Havana. Fidel dedicated the headquarters and supported the Youth Computer Clubs,...
- Reporting From Inside Cuba
I just had an interesting exchange with "Muchas Gracias" in the comments of this post. In the exchange, he (she?) tells of a 10 kilometer WiFi link he helped build in Havana using fabricated antennae. He also says some people are sharing 56 kbps Internet...