“CognitIA Mujer expresses the will and commitment to promote and design strategies for the empowerment of women in the digital context.”

Throughout history, Cuban women have demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to reinvent themselves and forge new paths amidst social, economic, and cultural challenges. Their entrepreneurial spirit, often overlooked, is expressed in the creation of projects that support their families, preserve traditions, and contribute to community development.

Innovator Eliécer Castro Sosa, Antonio Guiteras sugar mill.

Eliécer Castro Sosa has made innovation another powerful reason for his existence. He has demonstrated this in the face of numerous challenges posed by the obsolete technology of the “Antonio Guiteras Colossus,” which refuses to give up an epithet it earned through courage and production that was the pride of the residents of Delicias, in the municipality of Puerto Padre, in Las Tunas, and all Cubans.

Puerto Padre's farmer Adisleydis Buyaín Matos

Every day, Adisleydis Buyaín Matos wakes to the urgencies and challenges, whether it's Monday or Sunday, and gets out of bed to “conquer the world,” to be useful, to try to transform her environment so that each day is more fruitful.

Railcar 2221.

Railcar 2221, based in the municipality of Colombia, is expanding its route to connect with the town of Guamo, in Granma province. This temporary measure responds to the interruption of national service on the Havana-Bayamo-Manzanillo route, affected by severe railway damage following Hurricane Melissa.