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Published: Thursday, 04 July 2019 08:23

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Photo: RHCHavana, July 4 .- With the aim of implementing the "Comprehensive Policy for the Improvement of the Computerization of Society in Cuba," comes into force from Thursday several higher-level legal standards aimed at ordering the process of computerization of the society.

As reported by the most recent Official Gazette, the new provisions are composed of a Decree-Law, two Decrees, an agreement of the Council of Ministers and several ministerial resolutions, which ratify aspects of this policy. The development of the Software and Computer Applications Industry and the establishment of the Security of Information and Communication Technologies and the Defense of National Cyberspace are some of them.

Wilfredo López Rodríguez, Director of regulations of the Ministry of Communications, said that it is not possible to advance in the area of ​​computerization without cybersecurity, while the latter provides the necessary tools to protect both the users of ICT and the infrastructures that support them. .

The new legal body establishes the obligation to protect personal data on electronic media, while regulating for the first time for legal entities the validity of digital signatures, "with the use of digital certificates of the national key infrastructure public. "

Incorprora the concept of Critical Infrastructure of ICT and its protection system, while highlighting the importance of the security of Information and Communication Technology.

As announced at the conference, it establishes the obligation for legal entities to use the national antivirus, as well as the priority use of open source and nationally produced applications. "The migration in a period of three years is expected to these platforms in the State Administration Organisms," said Miguel Gutierrez Rodriguez, Director General of Informatics Ministry.

Among the most positive aspects in the text is Decree 359 of 2019 on the development of the Software and Computer Applications Industry, which aims to promote, improve and increase national production and import substitution.

"We establish the scope of the IT applications and services industry, promoting the State Socialist Company as the main actor, complementing with the participation of non-state forms of management," said Ernesto Vallín Martínez, Director of the IT industry.

Regarding the renewal of the computer programmer's license, it was commented that the new provisions are not yet in place, which will go hand in hand with others related to the company.

The Gazette also includes the resolution 125 that approves the registration of marketable computer applications, establishing the procedures to do so, "which allows ordering the production and marketing processes in the program and application industry, in addition to keeping the information on the products up-to-date. of this type that exist in the country. "

The text approves a regulation on housing and accommodation services providers - for legal entities - that will allow the operation and issuance of operating licenses for this service to be organized.

The new regulation promotes the Development of Technological Science Parks "as an integral part of the industry" and that links with the policy already approved by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in this sense.

It also has the responsibilities for the advancement of government and electronic commerce in the nation, as well as the lines of integral development of national broadband from the use of wireless technologies and the use of fiber optics. (RHC)