Interest here is to establish a state of the issue on public communication of the political opposition in Cuba, because in the reviews on the subject no studies relating both terms were found. Meanwhile, there are few studies that examine Cuban dissidence in general. To advance in research about how is the configuration of the public thing is set around the political opposition in Cuba, an illegal and criminalized activity, is imposed an analysis that identifies gaps in knowledge production about this subjects and rescue the elements which allow us to think, contextualized and critically, the phenomenon.

The present article is an international review or state of the art that analyzed more than seventy texts of studies and interventions of information and communication technologies for development and social change with the objective of identifying tendencies, in particular those that had the specific purpose of youth development. In the results of this systematization stands out the discussions around the concept of development, the predominance of works in marginalized communities, and the need to orient this field towards situated users and problems, as is the case of young people, a topic that has been less attended.