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Statistical of the community Video Clubs program in this eastern province of Las Tunas assure that 60 percent of people that attend these facilities are students between eight and 17 years old.

The website of the national forum on science and technology was launched during the final session of the International Information Congress INFO 2008 that with the slogan “Knowledge Society: New Spaces to Build It” was held at Havana’s Convention Center.

UNESCO’s representative in Cuba Herman Van Hoof, says the use of informatics in Cuba is admirable, speaking at a round table during the International Congress on Information recently concluded in Havana.

“Cuba´s ever growing presence on the World Wide Web (Internet) offers the island the possibility of articulating efficient ways of spreading the truth about Cuba, as well as the island’s views on world events,” said Cuban journalist Nirma Acosta in Argentina, where she is attending the 34th Buenos Aires International Book Fair.

Representatives from the Cuban and Brazilian Institutes of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT) will sign a cooperation agreement in Havana.

The efficiency of the Internet as a tool to spread the Cuban reality was highlighted by Cuban journalist Nirma Acosta during the Buenos Aires' international book fair.

The Cubarte portal, as part of their many services, includes a registry of a hundred and six Cuban cultural institutions with their respective work profiles, directions, phone numbers, the possibility to establish immediate contact with them through e-mail, web sites and pictures from the front or the logo.

Representatives from the Cuban and Brazilian Institutes of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT) will sign a cooperation agreement today in Havana.

The meeting takes place along with the International Workshop on Business Intelligence and the Management of Knowledge in Companies, reports Granma newspaper.

A Salesian community in Cuba presented a DVD commemorating the visit of Benedict XVI's secretary of state.

China Invited Cuban Information and Telecommunication Conference. The Informática 2009 Conference will be held in Havana, from February 9 to 13, under the theme “New Technologies: Development and Sovereignty.”

In the region of the Sierra Maestra in the eastern province of Granma there are different courses of information technology being taught that stimulate the knowledge and use of free software, apart from the creation of computer programs.

Artemisa, Manzanillo in Granma, and Morón in Ciego de Ávila are the three municipalities that take in the 972 young people that so far are members of this plan. A number that is part of the 11,200 students all over the country who are part of the Futuro project, lead by the Havana University of Information Technologies.

The towns of Artemisa and Manzanillo and Moron are the three municipalities that are welcoming the 972 youths who are currently enrolled in this new effort.The towns of Artemisa and Manzanillo and Moron are the three municipalities that are welcoming the 972 youths who are currently enrolled in this new effort.

The Architecture of the Information as vital element to be published in Internet, was the main topic during the first day of the fifth training course on Digital Journalism, undeway in this eastern province of Las Tunas, whose womb began in the José Martí International Institute of Journalism, of Havana, last January.