Tunis 1997-1998

Technical assistance for the reorganization of Tunisia-Telecom

Within the scope of an international co-operation project lead by a Canadian governmental organization, we provided the necessary technical expertise for the reorganization, the privatization and the sub-contracting of certain activities of Tunisia-Telecom.
In 1995, following the signing of a free-trade agreement by Tunisia with the European Union, this reorganization was necessary and preferable in order to improve the productivity and performances of the Tunisian institutions with regards to those of the European Union.

During Phase I, our mandate included, amongst others, the following activities:

• Meetings with various Tunisian representatives;
• Validation of the requirements with the help of files/projects;
• Identification of the achievable sub-contracting projects and the completion constraints;
• Establishing calendars for the inputs and interveners for the various sub-projects;
• Elaboration of an action plan for the accomplishment of the projects using a global approach to attain our objectives.

The second phase of the co-operation project with Tunisia included providing recommendations pertaining to the implementation of a few of the sub-projects identified in Phase I. In this mission, the following four (4) sub-projects were selected to progress to the next step:

• Research functions of the Research and Development Division;
• Automated cartography of the Networks;
• Engineering of the towers;
• Interest group for the Development of the Telecommunications (GIDT).

The above four sub-projects included the following elements:

• Internships of Tunisians in Canada;
• Canadian experts at Tunisia-Telecom;
• Levelling of private sector;
• Calendar;
• Canadian expertise allowed to contribute;
• Budget per activity;
• Responsibilities of representatives and implementation limitations.
  

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