21 November 2023

Desoft participates in Innova2023.

As part of the V edition of the Innovation Contest for Society “INNOVA 2023”, organized by the Computer and Communications Business Group (Geic), two Desoft works selected in the Software and Computer Solutions category were presented on this day. .

These works were "Evaluation of sustainable development through indicators using dashboards to facilitate decision making", by Desoft Villa Clara and "PROVEA: Market and Business Platform", corresponding to Desoft Matanzas The event, based at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, was chaired by Ariadne Plasencia Castro, president of Geic; Amaurys López García, vice president of Geic and Elizabeth García Cuesta, director of Technological Development of the business group.

Desoft was also represented by its general director, Dany Valiente Prieto and the director of the Division in Matanzas, Manuel Venero Lauzurica. This edition of Innova had as its essential objective the presentation of works that constitute contributions to the digital transformation in Cuba, it was also intended to encourage the development of innovative solutions that increase citizens' access to ICT, as well as solutions related to cybersecurity.

Workers from the IT and communications sector, both from state institutions and non-state forms of management, students, researchers and professors from the country's universities participated in it.

17 November 2023

Second National Desoft Workshop on MSMEs.

As part of the structural transformation process of the Computer Applications Company, Desoft held by videoconference this Thursday, the Second National Workshop on the company's MSMEs, which was attended by Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila, Labor Hero and advisor to the president of the Biocubafarma Group, who has been linked to our organization for some time.

During the meeting, Noelis Izquierdo, director of the Directorate of Business Development Services of the Headquarters, reminded those present that the Statutes of MSMEs indicate four foundational requirements related to the fact that they must be technology-based entities, be inserted in the digital transformation of their territories, carry out export activities and establish alliances and chains with other entities based on the business model assumed by the company.

In this workshop, the experiences of Desoft Cienfuegos, close to becoming a Mipyme, ASI (Computer Consulting and Solutions) the Mipyme of Las Tunas and the UEB of the company in Santiago de Cuba were heard. When speaking, Dr. Lage acknowledged that Desoft's experience is advancing and in each meeting more details are evident.

He recommended that all the initiatives of this process must be expressed in Plan 2024, a plan that must be serious but bold at the same time. Later he recommended having a greater knowledge of the market and the need to bring together all of Desoft's studies and experiences in this regard, for which a team must be created that integrates all the information in this regard.

He also warned about the need to share experiences about exports in an industry like ours, for which it is essential to create a permanent space to which other entities in the country also dedicated to exports can join with dissimilar results. We must create, Lage said, a kind of learning network on this issue of export management, as well as have greater links with the country's academic world. Before saying goodbye, he acknowledged that at events like this one at Desoft, you learn a lot.

15 November 2023

Cuba highlights concern with the growing digital divide at UNESCO.

The First Vice Minister of the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of Cuba, Wilfredo Gonzáles Vidal, spoke this Tuesday at the Communication and Information Commission of the 42nd General Conference of UNESCO.

During the consideration of the Director-General's report on the implementation of the results of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Deputy Minister highlighted that a few days after the 20th anniversary of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society Information Society, in which important documents were adopted at the level of Heads of State and Government, the digital divide remains, an issue recognized at said Summit as a new dimension of economic and social divisions. In that sense, González Vidal explained that this and other related issues were addressed with concern by numerous Heads of State and Government at the G-77 and China Summit, held in Havana, Cuba, last September, and that Its central theme was: “Current development challenges: Role of Science, Technology and Innovation.”

In the Final Declaration of this Summit it was stated that the G77 and China promote: “close alignment between the World Summit on the Information Society process and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” It was also agreed to “work towards a strong and concerted position of the G-77 and China to ensure that the General Review process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), the Global Digital Compact and the Future Summit contribute, among other things, to the achievement of sustainable development and to closing the digital divide between developed and developing countries.”