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(PCTM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is planned up until December 2024 and has three main stages, the first of which, currently underway, \u201cpursues the purpose of diagnosing services and technological capacity\u201d in the Cuban tourist town, explained Mail\u00e9 Salgado, vice president of the PCTM, to the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the actions of this first stage are \u201csocialization with participants and beneficiaries, identification of projects to be carried out by focal points and size, as well as the preparation of diagnostic groups to start the cardinal task in July,\u201d commented the Salgado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVaradero, digital city,\u201d the official name of the program, is one of the 19 initiatives in different stages of the PCTM, located in the University of Matanzas, which \u201cconceives the use of information technology and communications (ITC) to generate solutions that contribute to the quality of life of the population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NM6soUB52G\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/cuba-consejo-de-ministros-actualiza-regulaciones-sobre-el-trabajo-privado-en-varadero\/\">Cuba: Consejo de Ministros actualiza regulaciones sobre el trabajo privado en Varadero<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abCuba: Consejo de Ministros actualiza regulaciones sobre el trabajo privado en Varadero\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/cuba-consejo-de-ministros-actualiza-regulaciones-sobre-el-trabajo-privado-en-varadero\/embed\/#?secret=lLzvhG2qwb#?secret=NM6soUB52G\" data-secret=\"NM6soUB52G\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project, according to Salgado, \u201cwill have the mobile terminal on the cell phone,\u201d and its purpose \u201cis to integrate and interconnect the different dispersed computer solutions that currently exist in the Hicacos Peninsula.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a concrete example of its usefulness, the specialist referred to the development of electronic commerce that the initiative would promote in Varadero \u201cthrough existing payment channels,\u201d while also covering \u201cother transcendental main themes such as government, mobility and management of transportation and sustainability and ecosystem,\u201d the ACN highlighted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vice president of the PCTM assured that \u201cthere is a willingness of the state and government at the local and country level to materialize the 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