*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
*Patria goes discussion goes beyond viral trends and news coverages
*4th International Patria Colloquium to run from March 17th to the 19th
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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.