At the headquarters of the Cuban Association of United Nations (ACNU), participants highlighted the role of the UN, its specialized agencies and the States in establishing cooperation mechanisms and a regulatory framework, adequate to the break neck development of 2.0 technologies and Artificial Intelligence.

The meeting, considered a preamble to the Summit of the Future, to be held soon at the United Nations in New York, encouraged the debate between youth sectors with executives of the Ministry of Communications and other institutions, on the policies promoted by the nation in the field of information technology, considering the matter as a pillar of the Government’s management.

The dialogue focused on such items as the need to foster what they called digital literacy for the active use of the Internet, in a country with over eight million netizens (a percentage higher than the world average in relation to the number of inhabitants), as well as the hurdles imposed by the U.S. blockade to the Cuban breakthrough in that matter.

Participants agreed on the urgency to eliminate unilateral coercive measures that ostensibly limit and prohibit countries as Cuba from acquiring technologies and access digital platforms and content, and instead boost international cooperation for the sake of a more inclusive and fairer world.

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