50,000 Jobs to be Created

It's launched. Two months after its adoption by the Council of Ministers on November 18, 2013, the Smart Tunisia project, aimed at laying the foundations of a digital economy in Tunisia over the next five years, is officially launched.

Indeed, the outgoing head of government, Ali Laarayedh, on the proposal of the Ministers of Information and Communication Technologies and Vocational Training, promulgated Decree No. 2014-6 of January 2, 2014, relating to this project.
Smart Tunisia aims, as explained in Article 1, to promote in our country the activities of offshoring in the field of information and communication technologies.
Specifically, four categories of services are concerned: research and development services, services related to the development of applications and computer software, data processing services, and customer relationship services and related services. A promoter may include one or more categories in their project...
With a duration of 5 years, Smart Tunisia aims to create a total of 50,000 jobs, at an increasing rate (6,000 jobs in 2014, 10,000 per year for the following three years and 14,000 in 2018).
Once the project is completed, its results will be evaluated based on ten criteria set by the decree: number of agreements concluded, creation of jobs in high-value specialties, beneficiaries of training programs and the degree of adaptation of these programs to the project requirements, degree of evolution of indicators of Tunisia's positioning in ICT activities, success in facilitating the implementation procedures of the contracted investors, respect of the deadlines for the implementation of the project and its stages and the efforts deployed to shorten it, the achievement of the objectives set and the measures taken to improve its performance, the difficulties encountered in the implementation, the monitoring and evaluation system of the management unit and its degree of efficiency in determining the data relating to the pace of progress of the project implementation, and the effectiveness of the intervention to modify the program's progress.

Moncef Mahroug.

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Published February 13, 2014.

Posted online February 13, 2014.