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This paper discusses the historical trajectories of South-South and triangular cooperation and its dimensions in Latin America. Based on this information, the paper intends to assess the framework’s role as an instrument of public diplomacy in developing countries, which enables participating countries to strengthen their international presence and establish strategic alliances with other countries. Building on the theoretical perspective of the framework, the study analyzes specific Cuban cases of South-South cooperation, linking them with the characteristic elements of public diplomacy, and assesses their impact on international development cooperation. In conclusion, the paper contends that Cuba and South Korea should explore the possible concrete links between the elements of international development cooperation and those of public diplomacy, and seek opportunities to foster South-South cooperation as part of public diplomacy. This will help developing countries to discover and establish new forms of exchanges between them and strengthen their cooperative relations with partner countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a Third World vision, the present paper deals with some international methods to evaluate sustainability in Projects and realizations, at architectural and urban scale, in order to, valuate in a comparative way, strengths and weakness, mainly taking into account their possible application in developing countries, and particularly in Cuba. The research started by looking for a method to evaluate sustainability in the University of Informatics Sciences, and it was later on extended with the inclusion of the African experience. The evaluative categories differ from one system to the other, but all of them emphasize the environmental dimension of sustainability. Only two methods coming from developing countries include social dimension and the necessity of an endogenous approach, which is an important current challenge for Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction to technologies of information and communications in the processes of academic peer-reviewed information exchange will necessarily produce a change from the paper pattern to the electronic one. CENIC Journals, Biological Sciences and Chemical Sciences, were the first Cuban journals to be published in CD-ROM. However, the need for indexation of the serial publications from the Ministry of Higher Education in full text database in Internet, with the aim of obtaining a wider visibility of Cuban science, has been manifested. This paper had the aim of knowing the opinion of authors and readers of CENIC journals, about the kind of full text database available in the World Wide Web where they should appear, as well as evaluating the skills of the researchers for search, recovery, organization and elaboration of electronic documents, and basis of these analysis to create the procedures for the publication of CENIC Journals in Internet and its incorporation to Fuente Académica database, belonging to EBSCO Host, one of the most prestigious database at international level. The researchers with the degree of PhD in sciences propose the publication of CENIC journals "in electronic pattern in prestigious database". On the other hand, researchers from all scientific degrees coincide in "not recommending" the publication of only the electronic version this is , they coincide in the need for keeping the printed version, and only the researchers with a lower rank propose "to increase the run" The culture of work with remote database handlers of bibliographic references and personal digitalized libraries from the researchers and members from the CNIC Board Committee was assessed as BAD or FAIR. An the basis of the personal opinions collected the procedure for the publication of CNIC Scientific Journals was performed in WWW, used in the EBSCO project' Digital Journals for the popularization of Science and Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Third millennium begins in a globalized world: 6.3 thousand million people, 850 millions hungry, 1,200 without drinkable water, 2,400 without proper healthcare, 850 millions illiterate, 10 million children die annually. Meanwhile, 10% of the population enjoys 70% of wealth. Social explosions, wars, hurricanes, earthquakes, environmental contamination, floods, global heating, AIDS, proliferate. Rural communities have economic and socially collapsed, unemployment increases for technologies of low labor force, migration to the cities persists. The "Green Revolution", of specialized and industrialized agriculture of developed countries has generated environmental conflicts and has not been any solution. The geophagy and power thirst of countries and political leaders, generate more unbalanced distribution of wealth. In our planet, positive results with agroecological systems of production are plentiful, demonstrating its possibility to solve great number of problems. In Latin America and Cuba, large number of experiences based on knowledge of rural and indigenous traditions, research and commercial production exist, with feasible solutions for this called third world", where the neediest countries are. There are possible roads to reach the desired agricultural development. This paper summarizes some examples of these advances. The future challenge is to integrate agroecosystems components to achieve synergies, consolidating holistic agroecological systems, with biological, productive, economic, energetics and environmental efficiency. It is hopefull to think in an agroecological future together to political will for the economic and social development, can contribute in a high degree to liberate our third world countries of the critical current situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]