CAMAGÜEY.- With the agreement to hold a workshop on digital humanities in this city, the 5th Meeting of Audiovisual Culture and Digital Technologies concluded, which led to an exchange between specialists from Spain and Cuba.

The last work session took place from the Nuevo Mundo Audiovisual Complex, through the group video call service Jitsi Meet, with live transmission for the YouTube channel of the El Callejón de los Milagros project.

The participants reflected on the possibilities of information technologies for the cultural sphere, in terms of distribution, content generation, access and personalization of services.

On behalf of Tecnalia, the largest technology center in Spain, the sociologist Eguzkiñe Saenz de Zaitegi pointed out: “Intelligence is not provided by technologies. These are a mere instrument. They are the people with the use that they do that contribute to that intelligence ”.

The reasoning was based on the presentation by Reynaldo Alonso Reyes, president of the subsidiary of the Cuban Computer Union (UIC) in Camagüey, on the challenges of the Citizen Innovation Laboratory for the central Calle de los Cines.

“Urban laboratories, innovation laboratories, or whatever we want to call them, provide this challenge to people, by opening spaces and making them think differently. In these laboratories we have to take off the traditional jacket, and open our minds ”, added the Spaniard.

She recommended consolidating relationships in the community and influencing training "so that people get all the social and economic benefits of the options, from the point of view of cooperation, and take advantage of the strengths of each one."

Tatiana Delgado, national vice president of the UIC, intervened from Havana, who leads the project Citizen innovation laboratory for digital transformation in the cultural sector in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Mayabeque, Cienfuegos, Camagüey and Las Tunas.

“Camagüey is one of the advanced provinces in the introduction of technologies and innovation. It is an avant-garde team, with results, with prototypes built ”, she said before thanking Tecnalia for its collaboration, as well as the collective intelligence to be developed through the partners and participants from the territories.

Tatiana Delgado referred to the process of diagnosing the innovative potential now that the pandemic has brought technology closer together: "Focusing on people is an approach that we have had in mind from the beginning, in order to understand their problems."

She had the idea of ​​doing an internal workshop on digital humanities in Camagüey, due to the experience of working from critical thinking promoted by Juan Antonio García Borrero in Calle de los Cines.

At the end, Seidel Toledo Pimentel, director of the Provincial Film Center, ratified the institutional commitment to accompany this academic action that each year must be the result of a greater integration of social actors, and invited the 6th Meeting of Audiovisual Culture and Digital Technologies , planned in 2022.