Update from Country(Tunisia)New Regional Centre in Tunisia to Help Young People Participate in the Knowledge Economy

(Tunisia) New Regional Centre in Tunisia to Help Young People Participate in the Knowledge Economy. PRNewswire. Online November 2005. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and Microsoft Corp, (Nasdaq: MSFT) in cooperation with the Tunisian Ministry of Youth, today inaugurated the InfoYouth Centre, a regional community technology centre for North Africa, designed to provide youth with access to, and skills training in, IT. The InfoYouth Centre will provide training for IT instructors in more than 200 youth centres across Tunisia, extending its reach to as many as 50,000 young people throughout the region each year. … The Tunisian InfoYouth Centre will act as a hub for ten centres in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, enabling them to share best practices and establish joint activities and programmes. One of the first joint activities will be a collaborative project to design a web portal for hundreds of websites across the region. This portal will be maintained jointly by the participating centres and will allow thousands of young people in the region to engage in a cultural dialogue and, in the near future, access training materials. …