The identity and diversity of communication policies in Latin America and the horizons of the region to define a telecommunication strategy, capture today the interest of those attending the third day of a meeting of researchers from those issues.
The first of the two topics will be in charge of Spanish Ramon Zallo, who will give an opening lecture about the issue, and tell about possible keys to search a common agenda of communication for the region.
On the other hand, Mexican researchers, Florence Toussaint and Rodrigo Gomez, and Cubans, Pedro Urra and Rosa Miriam Elizalde, will lead a theoretical panel that will discuss problems associated to the so-called Digital Revolution, and the right of access to the Internet and its services.
Later, Raul Garces, dean of the Communication Faculty at the University of Havana and president of the organizing committee of the 8th Meeting of Researchers and Scholars of Information and Communications (ICOM), will meet with directors from American universities.
During the opening speech of the event on Monday, Garces stressed the possibilities that the process of normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States open for the academic, respectful and reciprocal exchange, with theorists of a so important issue in this so-called knowledge era as communication is.
An example of this is the American delegation attending the ICOM, which will allow to establish bridges and share views on that and other areas of relevance for the contemporary social science.
The event will run until Friday, Dec. 11, at the Havana Conference Center. It is held in parallel to the 9th International Congress of the Latin Union of Political Economy of Information, Communication, and Culture.
The shared program of both conclaves brings together about 400 papers, which are presented in several working committees, where current problems related to those issues are being analyzed.