Wikileaks: U.S. diplomats saw a critical partnership between Microsoft and Tunisia

Wikileaks: U.S. diplomats saw a critical partnership between Microsoft and Tunisia

Employees of U.S. embassy in the Tunisian capital of Tunis have been critical about five years ago one of his time between Tunisia and the software giant Microsoft agreed partnership. This emerges from a study published by the whistleblower Wikileaks telegram last week from the U.S. Embassy. The embassy staff estimates the time planned training of Tunisian IT experts to fight Cyberkriminialität, to promote e-government and to strengthen intellectual property rights than theoretically positive, but the Tunisian government could thus possibly also their capacity to monitor its own citizens . expand

The agreement between the software giant and Tunisia was signed, according to the dispatch to the Government Leaders Forum Africa 2006th They thus felt that before a training program for employees of the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior and Justice, and 12,000 licenses for Microsoft software. They also argue that a selected small group of employees of the Tunisian government to get insight into the source code of Microsoft software. Tunisia should look for when purchasing future hardware that it is compatible with Microsoft products. Until then Tunisia pursued according to the Dispatch since 2001, the goal of promoting open source and use only free software. Tunisian side of the agreement with Microsoft by Khedija Ghariani was signed, then Secretary of State for "computer, the Internet and free software."

2006 in Tunisia was the then President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power, who left following riots in mid-January 2011 the country. In the last weeks of his 24 year reign was Ben Ali's Internet censorship in Tunisia can aggravate further. From the "Government Leaders Forum Africa" ​​in July 2006, at which Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was there, had become known so far mainly that Microsoft had there formed partnerships with UN agencies, by the year 2010 some 45 million Africans in Information Technology to train.