This is quite cool... But it's regrettable it's taken so long. Two years ago, in Malága, I spoke with a representative from Cuba about migrating to OOo and ODF, and learned that the rhetoric then was not commensurate with the reality, in part simply b/c there seemed to be less reliance on computer technology. But Cuba suffers from the same complex problem nearly every country is now experiencing: accelerating urbanisation (in no small part because of the continuing demolition of economically valuable environments), the unprecedented rise in children needing teaching (but lacking teachers, books, classrooms, etc.), and the devastating lack of jobs for those newly urbanised adults and growing children.
Only ICT can begin to satisfy this complex of needs, through distance learning, through open source, through the establishment of new commons and new ecosystems that will not only communicate knowledge and information but also set the scene for the establishment of markets providing for jobs, careers, taxes. And not just social and real death.
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