Journalism
Yoani Sánchez (1975, Cuba)
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Awards:
Journalism
Yoani Sánchez (1975, Cuba)
"Yoani Sánchez (Cuba)
Yoani Sánchez (1975, Havana) is a leading figure in the use of social
networking technologies to breach imposed frontiers. A graduate in
philology, she is now dedicated to computer sciences and their capacity
to alter perceptions and generate social change. She works as a
webmaster, columnist and editor for Desde Cuba, an online news portal.
Determined to promote freedom of information and to speak out regardless
of danger, in 2007, Yoani Sánchez set up a blog, Generation Y.
Her regular posts offer punchy accounts of the day-to-day environment.
Avoiding direct criticism and global politics, her blog provides
subjective insights into the practical difficulties people face.
Emphasising the vital importance of material autonomy for any form of
active citizenship, her subjects include unaffordable food, shortage of
proteins and vegetables, the turgid proceedings of parliament and the
lack of meaningful reforms.
Sánchez operates in a context of strict control and censorship, working
clandestinely, under threat of arrest. Local access to internet is
limited and filters set up by the authorities slow and block connection
to Generation Y. Local supporters circulate her writings in emails and
USB memories, and volunteers translate her Spanish reports into 22
languages. Generation Y's growth has been exponential. It is now one of
the most-followed blogs in cyberspace, and a compilation has been
published as Cuba Libre.
Yoani Sánchez is awarded for raising global awareness of daily Cuban
realities through her blog, for her inspiring and courageous example in
giving a voice to the silenced, and for demonstrating the immense impact
internet communications technologies can have as tools for social change
and development."
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