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[Masada]

It isn't dealing with the number of Cubans with internet access but how much it would cost to get one as a percentage of median income. It might be the case that most Cubans can't access the internet but that a small number of people with good connections can access a subsidised service. In which case, we would look at the latter rather than the former.

 

[Arwon]

How many Cubans have internet access?

http://informacioncivica.info/new/internet-censorship-and-freedom-of-expression-in-latin-america/

Nearly all studies of online censorship in Cuba, such as the OpenNet Initiatives May 2007 study, depend on secondary sources, and most point to Julien Pain’s October 2006 report “Going Online in Cuba” for Reporters Without Borders as an authoritative account. Pain found that there are two types of internet connections in Cuba: “a “national” one that just lets you use an e-mail service operated by the government, and an “international” one with access to the entire Internet.” While the national connection is available at Interet cafes throughout the island that are accessible for ordinary Cubans, the international connection is highly restricted and expensive. Still, Pain found that:

There is hardly any censorship of the Internet in Internet cafes. Tests carried out by Reporters Without Borders showed that most Cuban opposition websites and the sites of international human rights organisations can be accessed using the “international” network. In China, filtering for key-words makes it impossible to access webpages containing “subversive” words. But, by testing a series of banned terms in Internet cafes, Reporters Without Borders was able to established that no such filtering system has been installed in Cuba.

On the other hand, he claims that in cyber-cafes that offer the cheaper “national” connection:

Users have to give their name and address at the door. If they write something containing suspect key-words, such as the name of a known dissident, a pop-up message appears saying the document has been blocked for “state security” reasons. Then the application – word processor or browser – that was used to write the text is automatically closed. So it seems that a programme installed in all Internet cafes automatically detects banned content.

But it is difficult to determine whether Pain actually entered one of these national cyber cafes, and Salim Lamrani points out in a July 2009 piece that Reporters Without Borders’ coverage of Cuba has long been inconsistent.

 

[innonimatu]

"Reporters Without Borders" is a group well known both by its links to anti-cuban terrorists and its financing from the US state department. They almost got the EU parliament to approve funding for them a few years ago with their number of being a "reporter's" organization, but were exposed.

In other works, it's a US-managed anti-Cuba propaganda organization. It sole purpose is to attack the government of Cuba while making it look like those attacks come from an impartial source.,

 

[Masada]

Eh, I don't like Reporters without Borders: WEST #1!!!1111! But I don't believe that the counter-evidence is all that compelling. The use of the international service seems to be restricted even if the content is not. That much is clear. No amount of niggling at the edges seems to alter that.

 

[Arwon]

That was my take. The broad outline sounds about right, even though I'm sure the "national" service is more than just email. There's publically known Cuban bloggers like Yoani Sanchez, but they probably don't have unrestricted access.

 

[dwaxe]

Guess the map!

 

[Dachs]

[Censored due to getting the answer right.]

 

[choxorn]

Environmental Degradation?

 

[madviking]

Robots / square mile?

 

[say1988]

EDIT: must make sure I am on last page

Anyways, HDI?

 

[Tee Kay]

Environmental Degradation?

Places like India should be higher.

There seems to be a high correlation with wealth.

Population growth?

 

[amadeus]

It looks like birth rates to me.

 

[Kal'thzar]

Average Age?

 

[Cutlass]

Quality of health care.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

age difference? (more old people then young)

 

[W|M]

Industrialisation levels?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

China would be better than Bosnia, it has to be age, Japan is first followed by Germany,Finland....

 

[W|M]

If it was age, the USA and Canada would be much younger, and Russia would be much older/younger (depending if you count the USSR as still being Russia).

 

[say1988]

I believe he means the average age of the population.

Though life expectancy would probably look quite similar and I would guess that.

 

[Dachs]

It's not mean age, it's median age