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Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics
had three weekly cultural bulletins issued in Spanish, English and French, and 42 852
subscribers in the whole world.
If we take into account that our work aims at producing cultural information,
mainly in Spanish, and the fact that this takes place in a small Caribbean island with
barely 11 million inhabitants and a very limited satellite connection to the Internet,
we may conclude that Cuba has reached a good position and presence on the Internet.
An analysis of the main Cuban cultural portals
In the analysis of the 24 main Cuban cultural portals we started with defining
differences between portals and websites. 3 In addition to the criteria relating to the
amount of information, to be defined as a cultural portal a web resource has to be
organized as a platform that provides access to other cultural websites and it has to
deal with culture in general or some of its specific aspects (e.g. arts and literature,
cultural promotion, heritage preservation, etc.). 4
In 2001 Cuba had 15 portals, in 2002 it had 20 portals and in 2007 it has 24 portals.
24 main Cuban portals www address
National portals
Biblioteca Nacional José Martí www.bnjm.cu
Casa de las Américas – La Ventana www.casa.cult.cu
Consejo Nacional Casas de Cultura www.casasdecultura.cult.cu
Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas www.cnap.cult.cu
Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural www.cnpc.cult.cu/
ICAIC – Instituto Cubano de Arte e
Industria Cinematográfica. (Cubacine)
CNAE – Centro Nacional de Artes
Escénicas (Cubaescena)
ICL – Instituto Cubano del Libro.
(CubaLiteraria)
Portal de la Cultura Cubana (CUBARTE)
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www.cubacine.cult.cu
www.cubaescena.cult.cu
www.cubaliteraria.cu
www.cubarte.cult.cu;
www.cubarte-english.cult.cu/;
www.cubarte-francais.cult.cu/
3 http://www.informaticamilenium.com.mx/paginas/espanol/sitioweb.htm
4 The main artistic manifestations are literature, music, cultural heritage, performing arts,
visual arts, cinema, the audiovisual and community culture.