Internet politics in Cuba

Abstract

2009 marks not only the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, but also the 20th anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web. Although the Internet as such came into existence in the early 1970s, it was Tim Berners-Lee’s invention that definitively altered the panorama of global telecommunications, unleashing a tide of debate. From country to country, its implementation has been shaped by economics, culture and politics but this diversity is not always recognised when writers make general claims about the social impact of the Internet... [Introduction]