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The Internet in Tunisia
- Universal access to the Internet is a strategic objective in
Tunisia. This is best illustrated by the growing number of Internet
users (at least one million in July 2005) as well as in the large
number of Internet Service Providers (12 ISPs, five of which are
privately owned), and of public Internet service centers (310 centers
at the end of 2004).
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Tunisia currently ranks among the best
connected Arab and African countries. All secondary and higher
education institutions are connected to the web. By 2006, all primary
schools will also be connected. A program for the generalization and
promotion of the Internet is being implemented. "Internet buses" reach
the most remote areas of the country. In addition, the State has
promoted the training of skills in the ICTs sector. It has also
established a vast program offering families the possibility of
purchasing computers at low prices, in addition to successive
reductions in the connection and online communication rates.
Technopoles and cyberparks have been established in all the regions of
the country, and research/development in the ICTs sector is
particularly expanding.
- Various public incentives encourage initiatives for the creation of websites.
- President
Ben Ali's Electoral Program for the 2004-2009 period provides for new
measures to facilitate universal access to the Internet (ensuring
connections in all the country's regions, increasing the current
capacity of connection to the International Internet network fivefold
during the next five years, gradually generalizing the broadband
capacity through ADSL connections for subscribers to the Internet,
ensuring the access of 50% of citizens to ordinary Internet capacity,
and establishing Internet service centers in each village by the end of
2009)
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