Marseille Innovation and the Elgazala Pole of Communication Technologies have received more than 300 people on June 11th & 12th for the second stage of the "RoadShow e-3M 2009": the 7th ICT, Telecom & Multimédia French-Maghrebi Business Meetings "e-3M Tunis'2009".

Organized as a part of the "Invest In Med" European programme, and with the support of UbiFrance's label, this event has enabled 26 French, Algerian and Moroccan companies to meet hundreds of Tunisian ICT actors to negotiate business partnerships thanks to BtoB meetings (at least 10 per company) set up by Marseille Innovation, in collaboration with KPMG Tunisia. The delegation's companies have been able to discover the Tunisian business environment, start negotiations with major actors of the Tunisian ICT field (including the Ministry of Communication Technologies itself), and initiate business flows with their delegation's counterparts.

During this event, lectures about Information Systems and company management have been organized. Many speakers have contributed to the success of these workshops: Madam Lamia Chaffai Sghaier, Secretary of State of informatics, Internet and open source software, Madam Aïcha Ennaifar, General Director of the Elgazala Pole, Professor Tawfik Jelassi, dean of the "School of International Management de l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris", and many other corporate managers and major actors of the Tunisian ICT field.

Many national Medias were covering the event, among which the national television channel Canal Tunis, and the French-speaking radio RTCI. Some national newspapers (TAP Agency, "Le Renouveau"...) have reinforced the national media coverage.

To see the pictures of the event, download the presentations, the programme, the list of the attending companies and the articles, you may visit the Medinnov website: www.medinnov.com, or use the following link: "here".

More info: You may visit the page "e-3M Tunis'2009" on the "Invest In Med" website, or contact Lotfi Hamdi / +33 (0)4 91 11 88 09 - l.hamdi@marseille-innov.org

About Medinnov: Medinnov, Euro-Mediterranean Innovation network, brings together the organizations contributing to the innovation around the Mediterranean Sea, and among the following themes: creation of innovative companies, transfer of technology, and financing innovation in the Mediterranean Area. The members of this network are: business incubators, technopoles, research labs, investment promotion agencies, and innovative companies from Mediterranean countries. It has been initiated by Marseille Innovation and AFII-Anima in 2005.