Name three types of technology that you have used.

What kind is your favorite?

On a scale of one to ten, how would you feel if you couldn’t use the internet?

1 – I’d just die; I can’t live without it! 5 - I’d miss it some, but have other things to occupy my time.

10 – I wouldn’t care, I don’t use it much!

Well, if you have to have your technology,

Cuba is not the place for you.

The government considers technology to be a tool that is being used as a weapon against their country. Because of this, they restrict its use.

How is it used as a weapon?

Cuba’s War Against

Technology By Maureen O’Grady

Why does the Cuban government want to

keep technology out of the hands of its people?

Because…..

Knowledge is Power!

Knowledge is PowerKnowing about others’ struggles against the communist regime helps Cubans know what’s going on in their country.

I WILL NOT SHUT UP, I WILL NOT LEAVE

Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez

A statement of principles

from one who suffered 17 years and 38 days of

political imprisonment in Cuba.

I will not shut up because I will continue to raise my voice and to denounce and resist, peacefully but directly, the totalitarian regime in Cuba

I will not leave, I will not abandon my country because to do so would show an immense lack of faith in the inevitable return of freedom.

Knowledge is Power! social networks summon people to street

protests, then spread news of the protests.

Knowledge is Power

Being able to communicate with other people around the world gives Cubans information that the Cuban government doesn’t want its citizens to know.

Yoani Sanchez followed via Twitter the upheaval in Egypt that ultimately led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and responded with her own tweets."What a great lesson the Egyptians are giving us!" she wrote.Sanchez has won a huge global audience with her blog "Generation Y," which criticizes the Cuban government and comments on daily hardships.

Times, they are A-changing!

In the last few years, the Cuban government started allowing their citizens to own a cellphone. This is for adults only. Children in Cuba rarely own cellphones.

Out of 11 million Cuban citizens, only 2 million have the internet.

Let’s translate those millions into numbers we can understand!

Let’s translate those millions into numbers we can understand!

   

 

 

 

SO… about 6 member of our class would have the internet!

Food for Thought

The next time you call your mom on your cellphone, send your friends emails, or use a computer to find out what’s happening around the world, remember the people of Cuba. The communist regime doesn’t want Cubans citizens using technology. They want to keep them in the dark .