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Cuba: Welcoming “Granpa”

Categories: Latin America, Cuba, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Media & Journalism, Politics, Technology

A new SMS service has increased Generation Y [1]‘s faith in the power of technology: “I’ve known about a page called Granpa (we hope it will be more objective than Granma) that sends news to cell phones located in Cuba. Since we don’t have a paper newspaper to tell us everything the official press keeps hidden…kudos for this information flashing on the screens of our phones.”