Get a website that ends in .cu must be quite a feat, since the Buena Fe duo booked the largest theater in Havana for three days, to give promotion with a trio of concerts to its going “online” from its new www.buenafe.cu website, which can be accessed, though it is not finished yet.
Presentations are scheduled for next March 7, 8 and 9, in the Karl Marx Theater. “Buena Fe dot cu… finally we have it!” Israel Rojas, the vocalist, says in the promotional spot of the event that the EGREM label sent to the media.
The duo’s website suggests visitors to browse through the blogs Chiringa de Cuba and La Joven Cuba and Cambios en Cuba blogs. The biography of the group, its lyrics and its music are also included.
So far, Buena Fe was publishing (and still publishes) its information, photos, videos and promotions on their official Facebook page, which announced in late February that buenafe.cu would be the title of the concert where they would present its website, announcing that “we will have fun time with YouTube, Facebook, twitter and all the cyber world that is so “easy ” for us Cubans of Cuba.”
That much fuss is justified only by the fact that tens of thousands of Cubans can connect to the so-call Intranet, the network of national sites whose servers are in the island. National navigation allows access to domains dot cu from home, workplaces or the young computer clubs with fewer restrictions than exist for entry to the network of networks, although limited to “national navigation.”
The granting of the domains dot cu in Cuba is in charge of the Cuban Network Information Center, CUBANIC, registration service provided by Information Technology and Advanced Telematic Services the company, CITMATEL under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.
The Intranet is the cheapest of the options in the ETECSA’s Nauta service, at 60 cents CUC per hour, about seven or eight times cheaper than accessing the regular internet.
Author
Javier Ortiz
