Republic of Cuba
Minister Ignacio Gonzales Planas
Cuba joined the United Nations on October 24, 1945. Ignacio Gonzalés Planas is Cuba’s minister of informatics and communications. The following is excerpted from his November 16, 2005, speech to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia.The new information and communication technologies, far from becoming a means to move toward a fair world, and a more harmonic and equitable development, have contributed to deepen inequality and injustice, and have become an additional obstacle for the progress of the poor countries.The promising technological scenario that is being predicted is framed by the existing unfair international economic…
