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be able to satisfactorily use the Internet and World Wide Web. Many governments have developed plans aimed at decreasing the digital divide in collaboration with the private sector. Thus, not only the need for access has been suggested; so has use and the appropriateness of these new technologies, because they can indeed impact development processes and combat underlying the other lacunae. Support for developing and using freeware is essential for helping decrease the digital divide. Information Technologies require that everyone can provide a place for encounter, a new public sphere where civil society can define and understand itself in its diversity, and where political structures are subject to public debate and can be evaluated for their actions. This would guarantee the participation of people in the most excluded social categories with their gender, regional and social perspectives. In the Cuban case, this divide has a number of unique characteristics. All political systems exist with inequalities and some level of backwardness, but the Cuban one creates these and concomitantly solidifies its power and mechanisms of domination precisely through those inequalities and disadvantages. Drawing by Yasser Technological backwardness is one with the system, because it constrains and atrophies possibilities for individual and societal development. Excessive control, paternalism, and the State’s monopoly on information, services and other spaces for social or economic development result in enormous difficulties and lack of access or use of 74 new technologies and their cultural, economic and social benefits. As is always the case, the Cuban government presents itself as the guardian of personal and social development. Yet, all it does is activate mechanisms and designs to affirm and strengthen its control and hegemony. It is conscious of the fact that an informed and connected person is a much freer one. Thus, the design of all mass technology and communications education in the island’s educations system, social access through so-called Young Computing and Electronics Clubs, and the training of high-level specialists in new technologies are nothing more than new propaganda glitz that in no way can combat the backwardness and inequality from which we suffer in this area. Broad, dispossessed and socially vulnerable population groups in Cuba are hopeless victims of the digital divide, which is combined with the enormous economic shortages and vicissitudes they face, and in a society with the lowest level of real connectivity, access and coverage via landline and mobile telephony in the western world and many developing countries. These realities led our brother Rafel Campoamor to create the NGO EmpoderaCuba. As an information systems specialist with a number of years of work experience in important, European companies and corporations, Campoamor traveled three continents taking knowledge of the new technologies to the most remote communities and saw the enormous value they have for promoting socio-cultural development and the insertion of marginalized groups in economic progress and modernity. Sensitive to the reality that the hegemony and intolerance of the Cuban authorities condemn Cuban society, in general, and the most marginalized communities, in particular, to unprecedented backwardness and difference, Campoamor proposed to himself the creation of a institution that could activate more efficient mechanisms and designs for the technological empowerment of all Cubans, without distinction, from within and from without the island. The conditions for this would include respect for individual freedoms and universally acknowledged rights. This should