[Chapter-delegates] "Google's 'chief evangelist' gives unusual talk to Cubans"

[Sebastian Bellagamba]

Hi, Joly, all

I attended the conference in Cuba. More than "unusual", Vint's presentation was basically the same he made in Montevideo last December, the last one I personally witnessed.
Perhaps the unusual part is having him in Cuba, but given that Obama will be visiting Havana next week, a Google exec might not be surprising.
For what is worth, I have not seen a single security guard at the conference floor.

Cheers

El 17 mar. 2016, a las 18:16, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com<mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> escribi?:

ICYMI, the final para:

Cuban officials, some of whom remain deeply uneasy about close interaction with the United States, declined to make any comment at the fair, and called a security guard to eject Associated Press journalists from the area after Cerf's talk.


?http://bigstory.ap.org/article/97332b8acbac4404bb98ad3e972b05c8/googles-chief-evangelist-gives-unusual-talk-cubans?


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com<mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com>> wrote:

Sharing this here:

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"Google's 'chief evangelist' gives unusual talk to Cubans"

http://www.startribune.com/google-s-chief-evangelist-gives-unusual-talk-to-cubans/372421401/

        A legendary computer scientist known as Google's chief Internet
        evangelist has delivered an unusual talk to Cuban officials in a
        sign of warming relations between the U.S.  technology giant and
        the Cuban government days before President Barack Obama visits
        the island.  Google Vice President Vint Cerf spoke for more than
        an hour to an audience of Communications Ministry officials and
        recent computer science graduates on Wednesday at the 2016
        International Computer Science Fair, a government-run symposium
        on information technology and communications.

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