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Havana Hosts International Conference on Information

CUBA, April 19, 2010. Participants in the Eleventh International Conference on Information (INFO), which began on Monday in Havana, are analyzing worldwide experiences on Information and Knowledge Society.

The meeting is taking place at Havana’s Convention Center through Friday with the presence of over 500 professionals from 20 countries, the largest participation since the first event of this kind was held in 1988, said the president of the organizing committee Carmen Sanchez Rojas.

Topics being discussed include information services, international literacy campaigns, information policies and technologies, and quality and assessment of information sources, among others.

The program also includes an International Workshop on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management that was first held in Havana in 2000 and later in Brazil (2004) and Venezuela (2006).

The event opened on Monday with the lecture “The Role of Technology on the Society of Knowledge” by Cuban Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communication Boris Moreno Cordoves, followed by “The Society of Knowledge and Its Challenges”, by the director of postgraduate education at the University of Havana, Jorge Nuñez Jover.

This kind of conference has been held uninterruptedly every other year since 1988. In 1990, Cuba hosted the 45th Congress and the Conference of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) and, since that first experience Cuba has been the venue for the 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 editions. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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