The presence of large scale projects financed by international organizations, such as the World Bank and the EU through the Map-it project is attracting in the Mediterranean areas major international ICT players and is also contributing at the same time to the growth of the local economic context of ICT companies that are building a common identity through the creation in each country of dedicated associations which are in turn backed by a federal supra-national organization, the “Union of Arabic ICT Association”.

Read more in the article "Sponda Sud informatica", Le Idee, Nòva, 01-05-2008