21 February 2022

Computing 2022: for the Digital Transformation.

The 2022 Informatics Convention and Fair is consolidated as the most important space of its kind in the country. The XVIII edition will be held from March 21 to 25 in a face-to-face/virtual hybrid modality, with greater weight in the virtual modality.

Participation can be (in both modalities) as a speaker, lecturer or course professor in the scientific convention; as an exhibitor at the exhibition fair and as an exhibitor of projects that are winners of the ICT Panorama contest in Cuba. In addition, bearing in mind that the Convention constitutes an excellent opportunity for up-to-date training, it is possible to register as a participant or attend the courses that are taught.

The Virtual Fair: The Fair will take place in a virtual format, through the Fevexpo platform, to exhibit products, services, solutions and interact with other participants in the event, whether they are other exhibitors or visitors.

19 February 2022

Ministry of Communications holds annual work meeting.

With the presence of the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic Manuel Marrero Cruz, the annual work meeting of the Ministry of Communications was held on February 18, in which the work projections for this 2022 were presented.

According to the organization for the analysis of compliance with the goals and objectives of the country's Economic and Social Development Plan until 2030, the Minister of Communications, Mayra Arevich Marín, explained that the ministry has a presence in three of the six Macroprograms defined , with the participation of the projects: Infrastructure of public telecommunications services; digital television; electronic commerce; digital government; the industry of computer applications and services and Cybersecurity as a cross-cutting element for all, in accordance with its scope. In the debate, the interventions of directors of the organization and the Communications system on the work projections for this year 2022 stand out:

Ariadne Plasencia Castro, president of the Information Technology and Communications Group (Geic): "We have new goals: to develop solutions and new ways for services to the population and exports."

Mario Hernández Pastrana, General Director of Computing at Mincom: “There are many potentialities that we have to digitize in terms of digital government. Projecting the potential of the companies associated with the process will transform the life of the citizen into a better quality of life and management.

Ailyn Febles Estrada, president of the Union of Informatics of Cuba: “Within the projections is to continue the training of our professionals. This year we have three blocks of training within the approved program to strengthen the quality of future local development projects.

Rafael Luis Torralba Ezpeleta, director of the Scientific and Technological Park of Havana (PCT): "Diversifying the sources of financing is one of the greatest challenges that lie ahead."

Tania Velázquez Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa): One of the company's priorities is to continue the investment process, particularly for wireless Internet access in homes, which will allow some 56,000 homes to be connected in 2022 .

For his part, the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic, Manuel Marrero Cruz, recognized the importance of the exchange that enriches the debate. He commented on the priorities established for 2022.

09 February 2022

Digital transformation, communication and innovation, pillars of work for 2022.

The Informatics and Communications Business Group reviews what was achieved last year with a view to strengthening its decisive participation in the process of digitization and development of Cuba Contributing to the development of Cuba is a constant for the Informatics and Communications Business Group (Geic), which held its annual work meeting this Wednesday to assess what has been achieved in 2021 and analyze the challenges that the current year holds.

According to the central report of the meeting, last year the entities integrated into the Geic worked intensively on the implementation of new services for the development and use of Information and Communication Technologies in the country, with results of various kinds. .

Thus, it transpired that the development by Softel of the e-Signature application, to use the digital signature on mobile devices with the Android operating system, together with new functionalities implemented by Desoft in the Tax Portal, contributed to the computerization of the services offered by the ONAT to taxpayers.

This action is an example of the management of online procedures and participation in the digital transformation of this institution. Desoft, for its part —whose 24th anniversary is this February 9—, launched in 2021 the first Cuban platform for the management of virtual events, Fevexpo, created from Odoo technology and which was successfully used in Felti 2021.