![]() ![]() ![]() Hernandez, who left Cuba eight years ago for the U.S., said the type of web-in-email system the hackers are working on comes in a variety of versions. “In Tunisia, in Egypt, the people were communicating through SMS (texting), through social media and the digital activism kept them organized, and that's what we want to achieve for Cuba, for the people to have access to the information they need to have so they can get organized and ultimately change the way things are there," he said. He is one of the hackers participating in the event. "We think social media and instant communication by all means is the key to new digital activism,” Serguei Hernandez, 34, a web developer and information technology student at Miami-Dade University, told Al Jazeera. They plan on doing so by creating a link, distributed by email, which would allow users to tap into an unobstructed World Wide Web. Their mission is to develop a way for Cubans to access the Internet free of government restrictions. ![]() The Hackathon for Cuba began with an opening ceremony on Friday, but participating computer programmers didn’t get to work until Saturday. Technology experts gathered in Miami Saturday to brainstorm ways to circumvent Internet restriction in Cuba, considered one of the least connected countries in the Western hemisphere. ![]()
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