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Primera edición del Evento Infoclub, en la provincia Cienfuegos.

Asalto al Palacio Presidencial y a la emisora Radio Reloj.
Asesinato de Pelayo Cuervo, líder ortodoxo.

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La sociedad que no se prepara para el uso de la computación, está liquidada.
Fidel Castro Ruz
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The Youth Club stand  on its human capital which include more than 5 700 workers in order to develop a computing culture within the Cuban population, socialize the use of new technologies and contribute to the process making computing accessible to all society. More than 60 % of those personnel are directly related to services, and their age average is 35 years.

 

The upgrading of the instructors is guaranteed through a training system that covers from the  municipal level up to the national one, in coordination with the universities, research centers, and computing polytechnic schools, among others. Due to this training policy, the program has already a Doctor in Sciences and other 20 under training, more than 700 graduates of master degrees and 600 under training.

All over the country there are more than 600 facilities, strategically located to allow better access; out of this amount 138 are located in rural communities and 39 in mountainous areas. Every municipality of the country has two Youth Clubs as minimum, which mean a Youth Club per 18000 inhabitants each. The facilities include 4 mobile laboratories that offer services to the more complex places of our geography, also 4 Palacios  de Computación,  located in the main cities of  the provinces of Ciudad de La Habana, Pinar del Rio, Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba, which offer a  wider range of services to a bigger amount of persons  due to its  structure and position.  Such diversity and extension made of these institutions a community reference nucleus in areas related to technology of computing and communication.

The technological potential includes more than 8 500 computers, along with printing equipments, image digitalization, storage and reproduction of information equipment, all of them at  the disposal of the population.

 

TinoRed, a service network for data transmission, is an unique system made up of analogue subsystems for the transmission and reception of information of the regional and provincial servers and /or local networks and user stations of the Computing and Electronic  Youth Clubs. Through this network and the web sites managed by the Youth Clubs the Cuban reality is reflected  from its autochthonous community roots,  with its values, customs and traditions.

An important aspect for the Youth Club is the efficient use of the new technologies, in that sense the personnel of these institutions are constantly training and upgrading. The join work with other institutions in order to keep the achievements in the field of Computing in Cuba as well as the quality of our products have prevailed during all this years.