About the Network

Everyone here has stood in the wrong line. Everyone has turned up at the CESCO one document short and had to come back another day. Everyone has opened ten different sites hunting for the same job. Everyone has pulled out their phone calculator for a sum any decent app should have done on its own.

It is not that the world is short of technology. It is that the world's technology was not built with us in mind. Land here is measured in cuerdas, and no calculator on the internet knows what a cuerda is. The Christmas bonus is law on this island and almost nowhere else, so nobody abroad has bothered to program it. And when the power goes out — and it goes out — you need to know which generator will keep the fridge alive; we have done that sum ourselves too, on paper, in the dark.

With work it hurts more. Some of the best openings on the island are federal and arrive written in English. People who have spent their whole lives searching in Spanish simply never saw them. It was not that they did not qualify. They never found out.

That is where Mi PR Network came from: the simple, stubborn idea that the things we use every day should be built with us in mind. All 78 of our towns, not five. Both our languages, because that is how we speak. Our way of living, which belongs to nobody else.

None of this is hard to build. What is hard is caring enough to sit down and do it. I care because this is my island and these are my people.