The ICT sector in Tunisia is rapidly evolving and has created a hub of high level competences. Technological and commercial cooperation opportunities with Tunisia is ever growing. The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, in collaboration with Innova, has organised a seminar on December 15th 2009 on the topic and a new programme to assist and accompany innovative tunisian companies in their development and search for italian partners was launhed. The tunisien daily "Le renouveau" dedicated an article "Un programme italien d’assistance aux PME tunisiennes dans le secteur des TIC"on the event in the December 16th, 2009 issue .