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Digital Economic and Social Evolution of Tunisia

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  • Nahla Chaaben

    (Sousse University, Laboratory of Research Economy, Management and Quantitative Finance, Tunisia)

  • Faysal Mansouri

    (Sousse University, Laboratory of Research Economy, Management and Quantitative Finance, Tunisia)

Abstract

As we are living in twenty-first century the use of ICT is raised day by day and the internet of things is promoting innovation, raising productivity and increasing economic growth. Having concentrated on the digital revolution and its impact on economic growth (Antón et al., 2015; ECLAC, 2015), this paper aims to evaluate the digital performance of Tunisia in comparison to the European countries (European Commission, 2014). This comparison is important, because it defines Tunisian’s performance at a global scale with regards to her digital maturity. Tunisia has the ambition to embrace the digital economy, with the aim of enhancing Tunisia’s competitiveness, creating employment and strengthening Tunisia’s industrial leadership especially after the spring revolution. To do so, we have adopt an indicator system in particular the new composite index International Digital Economic and Social Index (I-DESI) introduced by the European Commission in 2016 (European Commission, 2016). This index is covering five principal policy areas which represent more than 28 indicators including overall connectivity, human capital, use of Internet, integration of digital technology and digital public services. Our findings indicate that Tunisia has a score of 0.39 which shows that Tunisia is digitally poor performed comparing to the average of the EU member states. Identifying the areas requiring priority investments and action in order to create a truly opportunity for Tunisia to track the digital market is one of the main contribution of this paper.

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  • Nahla Chaaben & Faysal Mansouri, 2017. "Digital Economic and Social Evolution of Tunisia," MIC 2017: Managing the Global Economy; Proceedings of the Joint International Conference, Monastier di Treviso, Italy, 24–27 May 2017,, University of Primorska Press.
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