CAIRO: Microsoft is helping kick start ten Tunisian start-ups, after the projects won in the company's fourth-annual start-up sponsorship program competition. Thirty projects competed for the program, launched by the Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in November of 2011. The program works in partnership with HP Tunisia, Tunisie Telecom, the El Ghazela technological park and the United States Embassy. Leila Charfi, the director of the MIC program, expressed her continued commitment to helping promote technological growth in Tunisia in helping to develop local talent. One project, started by the young entrepreneur Afif Bouchoucha, would establish a large computer system between health care centers, pharmacies and labs in his region in order to foster the paperless flow of information. Another exciting project, developed by Slimen Rebhi, a graduate of computer science, aims to design and implement a web application by which people can monitor state-funded infrastructure projects. Microsoft will continue to work with the ten projects with management and marketing issues in order to allow them to become Microsoft Certified Partners. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/AqDaI Tags: Microsoft, Startups Section: Latest News, Tech, Tunisia
