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    Digital transformation in Cuba, a strategic and urgent process

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    Transformación digital en Cuba, proceso estratégico y urgente

    The preliminary ideas for the elaboration of the Policy for digital transformation in Cuba and the Cuban Digital Agenda 2030 were analyzed by the members of the National Innovation Council (CNI), at its meeting corresponding to May.

    In session this Monday, headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Council, at the president's proposal, agreed that both projects, with the observations made, be submitted to the decision instances of the Party and the Government for its approval.

    The CNI, founded a year ago, is "the national advisory body of the State, which assists the President of the Republic, aimed at recommending decisions to promote innovation in the functioning of the State, the Government, the economy and society in a coordinated and integrated manner. Moreover, it contributes to the vision of the nation, as well as to compliance with the current National Economic and Social Development Plan.

    The digital transformation process, a matter described as strategic, and at the same time urgent, was discussed for the second time in less than six months at the CNI, this time taking as its axis presentations from the Ministry of Communications (Mincom) and the Computer Union of Cuba (UIC).

    The head of Mincom, Mayra Arevich Marín, explained that the Policy for digital transformation in Cuba enriches and updates the Comprehensive Policy for the improvement of the computerization of society, it does not replace it.

    It is, he added, a higher stage of this, in which, based on what has been achieved, it emphasizes the processes, placing people at the center. However, he noted, due to the breadth of its scope, it is convenient to structure it in strategic axes for its implementation, in correspondence with the strategic sectors of the National Economic-Social Development Plan until 2030.

    The digital transformation, he added, cuts across all economic, political and social factors, and involves the Government at its different levels, all economic actors and citizens. The Minister of Communications also pointed out that the roadmap for conducting the initiative is the program document Digital Agenda 2030 of Cuba.

    The deputy minister of the Mincom, Grisel Reyes León, explained, among other aspects, that the preliminary ideas for the elaboration of the Policy for digital transformation have several policies as antecedents. The Improvement of the computerization of society in 2017; automation and industrial development (both from 2020), and policies for industrial development and for technology (2021), as well as completing the guidelines of the 8th Party Congress.

    Aylin Febles Estrada, president of the Union of Informatics of Cuba, addressed the preliminary ideas for the Cuban Digital Agenda.

    The vision is "that the Cuban socialist society is a digital, inclusive, participatory society, based on rights, with a population endowed with skills and competencies. It allows to make critical, ethical, humanistic and productive use of data and technologies; with high affordable and accessible connectivity, with a digital economy and an interconnected State, transparent and close to the citizen, and where the culture of innovation prevails in a safe environment that contributes to general well-being and to achieving a prosperous and sustainable socialism».

    In the meeting of the National Innovation Council, celebrated in May, the member of the Political Bureau and minister of the FAR, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera; the associate of the secretariat of the Central Committee, Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, head of its Department of Attention to the Social Sector, and the deputy prime ministers Inés María Chapman Waugh, Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella and Alejandro Gil Fernández, as well as ministers and participants of the CNI among other personalities, were present.