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This paper attempts to:
• provide a statistical analysis of the presence of Cuban culture on the Internet
during the period 2002-2007, taking into account the number of visits made to
the cultural websites and portals and the subscriptions to the cultural bulletins
issued by Cubarte. These were taken to be parameters that measure the interest
of virtual visitors in Cuban culture;
• survey the 24 most important cultural websites and portals in Cuba, with the
purpose of analysing their various aspects, such as the tools used, the content of
the information and its update, linking patterns, etc.
Cultural system statistics
In the period 2002-2006 the introduction of new websites and portals went from 100
to more than 2 500 in the whole country, a consequence of an inclusive and
far-reaching policy of inserting Cuban presence on the Internet. This was followed by
great efforts to position cultural content on the Internet, through an increase in the
content and an improvement in the quality of information, the links exchange and
other synergies within the system, all of which reveal the presence of Cuban culture
on the Internet. There are four sites with more than a million visits in 2006. These are:
Cubarte, CubaLiteraria, José Martí’s National Library and La Jiribilla.
Number of
Visits
Cubarte
portal
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
281 343 353 523 673 022 864 466 1 117 337
Institutions 272 188 2 135 106 3 155 333 3 176 934 1 903 846
Other
websites
Cultural
events
72 114 249 598 189 736 1 091 303 3 072 931
90 520 134 780 176 808 240 782
Provinces 38 318 938 347 1 475 450 1 684 149 3 427 879
Issues 34 769 90 826 123 094 1 808 790 2 119 465
Artists and
musical
groups
251 252
TOTAL 729 450 3 857 920 5 751 415 8 802 450 12 133 492
Source: Cubarte, 2006
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