With the severe economic crisis on the island and the growing alliance between Moscow and Havana as a backdrop, Russia and Cuba They plan to strengthen their collaboration in technological matters with the construction of a Technological Center for Leadership and Advanced Development in the Caribbean country.
The project for this center was presented in recent days to Cuban authorities by a delegation in the city of St. Petersburg, visiting the island, As reported on their networks The Russian Embassy in Cuba.
The delegation of St. Petersburg, headed by Yulia Smirnova, president of the computerization and communications committee, held meetings with the Cuban ministers of communications and higher education, as well as with the Biocubafarma business group.
“The central theme of conversations was the joint project for the creation of a Technological Center for Leadership and Advanced Development in Cuba,” said Russia’s diplomatic headquarters.
According to official information, visitors presented “in detail” to the Cuban authorities their concept of the future center, as well as “their potential for the development of digital sovereignty and the formation of highly qualified specialists.”
The publication of the Russian embassy does not provide details about the location that the center would have within the Cuban territory, nor on its physical dimensions and technological abilities. Nor does it explain when its construction could begin or how it would be carried out.
Other collaboration edges
The delegation of St. Petersburg traveled to the island to participate in Sigestic 2025, a meeting dedicated to the management systems of the Information and Communication Technologiesheld last week in Varadero, which had a commercial and business fair.
Along with their presence in this event, Russian visitors dialogue with the island’s authorities about their project for the Advanced Technology Center, and also carried out other activities.
Among these, the Russian embassy in Cuba lists visits to Matanzas entities, as well as the Technological University of Havana (Cujae) and two capital schools, “to which San Petersburg had previously supplied computer equipment and interactive blackboards.”
In addition, he met with Sergey Parkhomenko, business manager of the Russian diplomatic headquarters in Havana, and with representatives of the Cuban company Cinesoft, which develops digital platforms and multimedia content.
For the Moscow Embassy, this visit “laid the basis for long -term collaboration between St. Petersburg and Cuba in the fields of information technologies, education and creative industries”, at a time when both countries have been narrowing their political, economic and other areas.
As part of that process, last July It had already transcended Another project promoted by Russia in the Caribbean country. This is the so -called Digital Cayo, a kind of Silicon Valley that would be settled in the Youth Islandwith the aim of enhancing the international expansion of the Eslava nation in the Information and Communication Technologies sector.
According to the projected, Digital Cayo would become a technological hub with the ability to host up to 15 thousand residents, between specialists and students, and would be mainly oriented to provide products and services to customers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
