Cuba, 4th edition of the International Patria Colloquium kicked off in Havana

teleSUR English

*Colloquium to address the building of sovereign digital platforms *Patria goes discussion goes beyond viral trends and news coverages *4th International Patria Colloquium to run from March 17th to the 19th

Transcript

00:00The fourth edition of the International Talaquian Patria opened on Monday in Havana as journalists,

00:06communicators and representatives of media outlets gather to address the challenges of

00:13digital communication. Our correspondent in Havana Belén de los Santos brings us

00:19more details from an event that also celebrates Telesur's 20th anniversary. Let's see.

00:27The fourth edition of the International Patria Colloquium has kicked off in Havana,

00:33an event that gathers journalists, influencers and the collective experience from media outlets

00:38from across the global south to think about present challenges in digital communication.

00:43This edition also celebrates Telesur's 20th anniversary as the news platform Ambition

00:49by Chávez and Fidel reviews its milestones in two decades of journalism thought from

00:54a people's perspective.

00:58We have to make a profound reflection and stop thinking of ourselves as competitors,

01:05but also as collaborators and decisively and consciously work on common agendas,

01:13to work in ideological exercises about what is important for the landless workers movement

01:20in Brazil that I see them here, that their struggle agenda be also important for the

01:27community newspaper of Jujuy in Argentina, for the Chinese newspaper in Beijing and of course,

01:35for a multi-platform such as Telesur.

01:40Among the main topics of discussion at this edition of the Patria Colloquium

01:44is the building of sovereign digital platforms and technologies that allow critical and

01:49anti-capitalist thought to be fostered and shared. That is to say, to imagine a technological future

01:55in which digital discourse is not dependent on capitalist platforms.

01:59We need to create our own political horizon, technological horizon, that we have to

02:06challenge this idea that this way of doing politics is the only way and the only ones that

02:14could think about the future is the technocapital or the big corporations. I think we can do that

02:20and we have to do it quite fast.

02:23In CMG we have developed many good technologies and so we would like to

02:32take this Patria as a platform and we would like to share our technology with all the other

02:38countries and we would like to make the improvement together.

02:44From Palestine to Africa and South America, for the participants of this event, the discussion

02:49goes beyond viral trends and news coverages. Coming together in Havana is the possibility

02:54to coordinate collaborative efforts to rethink the global scene by looking at the world from

03:00the perspective of the popular movements of our territories.

03:03In a way, the movements are the source and the point is to look into those movements,

03:08who is saying the interesting things, who is thinking beyond the immediate problem and trying

03:13to generalize and find a way forward and then to try to create a kind of global left culture

03:19out of that, have those people talking to each other, sharing experiences and so on.

03:23We are people's weaving networks. Those are the words that accompany this edition of Patria

03:29and it is in those connections, the sharing of common experiences and agendas

03:34that lays the true power of the future of digital communication.

03:38Belén de los Santos, Denise Aravi, Portela Sur, Havana, Cuba.

Category

Transcript

Recommended