Tunisia Industry Cluster Initiative

Tunisia launched their Industry Cluster, a joint initiative with Tunisia’s government, in March, providing technical guidance for 10 Tunisian companies focused on the vertical markets: Telecommunications, Financial, Healthcare, Education and Government. All activities will be hosted by the local Microsoft Innovation Center that will provide technical and business mentorship, while accelerating the enrollment in MSPP fostering the competencies of Software Development, Software Solutions Integration, E-Services, M-Services and Security.

The Initiative aims at providing a technical endorsement to 10 Tunisian IT companies, to address specific development needs for the following sectors:

Telecommunications
Banks and Finance
Healthcare and Biotechnologies
Education
Embedded Systems
E-Government

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The selected companies are the following:

ST2I
Oxia
SATEC
Picosoft
Archimed
Discovery
BFI/Vermeg
Telnet
GET Wireless
Progidec

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Through the MIC, Microsoft will support these companies to develop solutions and build competencies in:

Software Development
Software solutions Integration
E-services
M-services
Security

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The selected companies will attend the following courses:

SBMC Course
Skills Accelerators: VS2008, SQL 2008 (Scheduled from 25th to 27th of April)
Microsoft Solution Framework
Best Practices in Software Development

In addition, Microsoft will certify 2 persons per company, and will enroll them in MSPP (Microsoft Partner Program) to help them fully benefit from our skills building program and extend their market coverage.

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Some Key ISV links

•	Microsoft on ISVs Blogs
•	ISV Advisory Service
•	The INNOVATE ON initiative