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Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics<br />
The above table shows the exponential increase in the total of visits received by the<br />
websites <strong>and</strong> portals of Cuban culture from 2002 up to 2006. This five-year period<br />
was an important one as regards the penetration <strong>and</strong> extension of the Internet on a<br />
global scale, where the number of Internet users almost duplicated (1.95 times,<br />
according to Morgan Stanley, 2006 2 ), <strong>and</strong> the number of visitors to the websites <strong>and</strong><br />
portals of Cuban culture multiplied 16.6 times.<br />
The number of visits during 2007 shows an impressive increase of more than a<br />
million <strong>and</strong> a half visitors per month, which, if it continues, would allow us to finish<br />
the year with more than 18 million total visits to Cuban cultural resources on the<br />
Internet, representing an increase of 50% as compared to 2006.<br />
Monthly<br />
visits in 2007<br />
January February March April TOTAL<br />
Institutions 236 560 246 219 231 096 241 388 955 263<br />
Other<br />
websites<br />
National<br />
portals<br />
Artists <strong>and</strong><br />
musical<br />
groups<br />
Cultural<br />
events<br />
Portals in the<br />
provinces<br />
Magazines<br />
<strong>and</strong> bulletins<br />
Sites of<br />
Cubarte<br />
Total of the<br />
whole system<br />
Source: Cubarte’s Statistics System, 2007<br />
32 379 32 881 43 239 34 416 142 915<br />
458 201 467 072 582 731 527 700 2 035 704<br />
21 448 22 199 26 084 24 341 94 072<br />
32 075 29 263 35 761 34 553 131 652<br />
406 837 366 103 387 188 402 690 1 562 818<br />
218 867 228 267 312 312 317 540 1 076 986<br />
30 621 31 628 46 028 43 273 151 550<br />
1 436 988 1 423 632 1 664 439 1 625 901 6 150 960<br />
Cubarte has experienced a growing trend during recent times. The original<br />
website, created in 1998, became a portal in 2001. Cubarte has had a remarkable<br />
increase in number of sections <strong>and</strong> services, the number of the data entries went from<br />
10 751 in 2002 to more than 100 000 in 2006. It also included two more languages –<br />
English <strong>and</strong> French – within the news <strong>and</strong> opinion sections; it created news bulletins<br />
<strong>and</strong> a magazine in French – Lettres de Cuba; some sections led to the creation of new<br />
2 http://www.morganstanley.com/<br />
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