January-July 2013Innovation Center Tunisia

“An address of excellence

where dreams become

reality, ideas transform

into businesses and small

businesses grow”

Arab ICT Incubators Workshop

11-12 November 2013

ICT4All Forum

Hammamet, Tunisia

MIC Ecosystem in TunisiaStrategic Partners

Academia Industry

Communities

Entrepreneurs

Developers

IT Professionals

Microsoft Student Partners

Universities

Teachers

Researchers

Students

Startups

Microsoft Partners

Microsoft

Customers

BizSpark Network

Partners

Government of Tunisia

U.S. Embassy

Technopole El Ghazela

AfDB,

Tunisiana

EFE

Innovation Center Tunisia

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MIC Tunisia – since 2007

Startups

EmpowermentEvents &

Programs for

students

Developers

skills

development

Support other

initiatives

300 BizSpark

members

70 incubated

through Annual

Startup

Program

15,000 participated

in trainings &

competitions

2200 people

trained

1600 certified

developers

StartupWeekend

Soukattanmia

StartupFactory

MENA Social Good

VC4Africa

Global Entr Week

MIC Team and FacilityAlia Mahmoud

MIC Director

Citizenship Lead

Ahmed Kaddour

Technical Evangelist

Academic Lead

The facility is strategically located in the El-Ghazela Technopark

to be closer to the IT community

Programs Overview

academia

developer

community

startups

Programs for universities and students to develop their technical skills, empower them

with events and programs to help them develop innovative applications, participate in

competitions, get certified and find their dream job.

Activities and events for the developer community to get the latest technology

innovations, develop better apps and connect and share best practices and ideas

around the software development.

Programs for startups to help them grow and become sustainable through the offering

of software, trainings, visibility and opportunities of funding and partnership.

Innovation Center Tunisia

startups

BizSpark launched in Tunisia from 2009 and has been driven by the MIC to

reach over 300 startups. BizSpark camps are organized yearly in the

regions with Network Partners. The BizSpark program includes free

software, visibility and support online.

Since 2007 the Annual Startup Program has incubated 70 startups. In 2013

for this first time, the MIC is working with partners to support 20 instead of

10 startups yearly. The goal is to reach 100 startups in the next 3 years.

Build Your Business training is for young entrepreneurs who want to

transform a business idea into a startup. In partnership with Education for

Employment, 300 youth willbe trained and coached in 2013. Many of these

trainings take place at the MIC, most recently with Centre de Jeunes

Dirigeants and the Women Incubator Program.

Annual Startup Program Components

IT Trainings CertificationsOne on One Coaching

Microsoft Innovation CenterFacility

Networking&

Visibility

Management TrainingsAccess to Financial

Institutions

Free Software

Autres Programmes – Inities par des Partenaires

Souk At-tanmia is an economic development initiative, which aims to

provide Tunisians funding opportunities in the form of grants to

support the creation of innovative projects initiated by the African

Development Bank and its partners

Annual Startup Program -- growing through partnerships

The Startup Factory offers an early stage investment fund to ICT

entrepreneurs. The program goal is to provide young investors with

a starting point, with the target of promoting brilliant ideas and

maximizing the chances of success. The startups selected receive,

direct support for business development, professional network and

relationship support, educational and training programs and

facility-based services .

As a result of these partnerships, the Startup Class of 2013 has doubled from 10 Startups to !!20

Build Your Business• Fostering entrepreneurship skills for early-stage startups at the MIC

• 7 startups have benefitted from the full BYB Curriculum, taught by BYB certified trainers with our partners Education for Employment Tunisia (EFE).

• A curriculum for small enterprises to help promote skills training and create new businesses

• Blended learning approach (facilitator-led classes & practical sessions)

• Modules include: market research, business planning, marketing, accounting, governance and ethical business practices.

• Content includes: DVD tutorials, video case studies, interactive practice exercises, educational games, business document templates, Microsoft Digital Literacy Curricula and lesson plans

• Free access in English, French and Arabic

• In partnership with IYF, Manpower, Stellenbosch University, Enablis and local partner EFE

Managerial Training & One on One Coaching

On March 18th, the first training session on Management skills was delivered to all of our startups by expert coach Afifa Ghamgui. She uses interactive techniques and role playing to get them actively engaged.

Coaching Sessions

Beginning in March, the new startups began their one on one

coaching sessions. Our coach Afifa Ghamgui, is a professor at

INSAT and certified entrepreneurial coach and has dedicated

every Third Thursday of the month to one on one coaching

followed up by regular Skype and phone calls as well as field visits!

March 18-20: All Microsoft Startups receive access to the BizSpark Program

complimented by an expert 2 day training to demonstrate how to make the

most of the global platform and its offers (listed below)

April 11-12: Visual Studio Is a software development environment (also know as

an Integrated Development Environment or IDE), It's used primarily by Software

Developers to build Software products, websites and Utilities.

The developer teams from our startups learned how to use this important tools

for the development of their software and web solutions.

Office/Sharepoint Training

April 15-16: Visiting Microsoft Certified Trainer for SharePoint, Marko Kokol from Slovenia came to deliver a

special training to the startups. Marko is the R&D Lead of Virtua IT d.o.o., a Slovenian company specialized

in providing SharePoint products and services in the region. He has more than 10 years of experience in

delivering SharePoint services to customers ranging from retail industries to integrating SharePoint based e-

learning solutions for public international organizations..

During his visit, Marko trained a series of trainers from Microsoft Partner Companies Dot. I.T, IP Tech and

Netsystem to deliver a series of 3 subsequent Office/Sharepoint Devcamps for APP development!

Visual Studio Training

April 26-27: As a result of the partnership between Sibley International and the Microsoft Innovation Center in the context of the USAID ICT Competitiveness Project, the MIC invited Karim Morsli to deliver a professional Strategic Marketing training to the startups entitled “Effective Marketing for IT Startups”

Strategic Marketing Training – USAID ICT Competitiveness Project

Karim is the co-founder and CIO, co-leads the

strategic direction of Rising Data, oversees the

technology and operational infrastructures.

Prior experience includes international field

engineer with Schlumberger, strategic

management with Arthur D. Little. Karim

obtained an MBA from Boston University and a

bachelor degree in Engineering from McGill

University.

Course Outline:• Marketing Mix and Key Marketing Activities

• Developing Marketing Segmentation

• Product Planning and Development

• Distribution Planning and Pricing Strategy

• Promoting

4Afrika DevCamps

In the context of the 4Afrika

Initiative newly launched by

Microsoft in 2013, the startups

benefitted from small group

coaching sessions based on

their technology needs with

visiting experts from the

4Afrika Center of Expertise

Team during a full week the

last week of April.

This permitted each team to

address specific technical

questions related to their

projects and discover new MS

Technologies to push their

business forward

Team Foundation Server Training

Activité Durée

Introduction générale à TFS 2012 et Visual Studio 2012. 15 minutes

Présentation de la machine virtuelle de la formation. 15 minutes

LAB 01 : Gestion de projets Agile avec Visual Studio et Team

Foundation Server 2012.

60 minutes

LAB 02 : Amélioration de la productivité des développeurs

avec Visual Studio et Team Foundation Server 2012.

60minutes

LAB 03 : Maquettage et collecte des retours d’expérience

utilisateurs avec Visual Studio 2012.

60 minutes

LAB 04 : Utilisation des outils d’analyse de code de Visual

Studio 2012 pour améliorer la qualité du code.

60

minutes.

LAB 05 : Utilisation des outils d’architecture de Visual Studio

2012 pour la découverte du code.

30

minutes.

LAB 06 : Utilisation de Visual Studio 2012 pour le débogage

avec IntelliTrace.

60 minutes

Clôture première journée de formation 15 minutes

Activité Durée

Récapitulatif de la première journée de formation 30

minutes

LAB 01 : Utilisation d’IntelliTrace et Visual Studio 2012 pour le

diagnostic d’anomalies en environnement de production

60

minutes

LAB 02 : Gestion et contrôle des codes sources avec Visual Studio

et Team Foundation Server 2012

30

minutes

LAB 03 : Utilisation des outils de Test unitaire, couverture de

code, et analyse de code dupliqué dans Visual Studio 2012

30

minutes

LAB 04 : Création et exécution de tests manuels avec Microsoft

Test Manager 2012

LAB 04 : Introduction aux tests d’interface utilisateurs codés avec

Visual Studio Ultimate 2012

60

minutes

LAB 05 : Introduction aux outils de Test de performance et de

montée en charge Web avec Visual Studio Ultimate 20012.

60

minutes

LAB 06 : Utilisation de Team Foundation Services 30

minutes

Clôture deuxième journée de formation 15

minutes

May 14-15: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's

application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. TFS supports agile development practices, multiple IDEs and platforms

locally or in the cloud and gives you the tools you need to effectively manage software development projects throughout the

IT lifecycle.

This training was destined to the project managers of each startup and equips them with a powerful tool to manage and

coordinate the work of their developers and was executed by Microsoft Partner IP-Tech.

Day 1: Day 2:

June 17-19: In this course, developers learned to develop advanced ASP.NET MVC applications

using .NET Framework 4.5 tools and technologies. The focus was on coding activities that

enhance the performance and scalability of the Web site application.

The 3 day training was executed by Mohamed Romdhani, Microsoft Certified Trainer and

professor at INSAT. He also presented to the developers how to become certified in Microsoft

Technologies.

Asp.Net/C# Training & Information Session on Certifications

Course Outline

Module 1: Exploring ASP.NET MVC 4

Module 2: Designing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 3: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Models

Module 4: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Controllers

Module 5: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Views

Module 6: Testing and Debugging ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 7: Structuring ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 8: Applying Styles to ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 9: Building Responsive Pages in ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 10: Using JavaScript and jQuery for Responsive MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 11: Controlling Access to ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 12: Building a Resilient ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application

Module 13: Using Windows Azure Web Services in ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 14: Implementing Web APIs in ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 15: Handling Requests in ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Module 16: Deploying ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Consultation Sessions with experts from the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Salima Messaadi is Certified Public Accountant and a member

of the Tunisian CPA Institute with a focus on supporting

young companies. Meriem Belajouza is a lawyer with the

Cabinet Donia Heda Ellouze and a specialist in business law,

due diligence and arbitrage. Finally, Mohamed Ali Arfaoui is a

representative of the “Centre de Soutien de Creation de

l’Entreprise” familiar with all of the various offers and services

for startups including physical incubation and financial

incentives.

After a rich discussion where everyone introduced themselves

and their projects, each startup had 15 minutes to sit

individually with each representative. This “speed dating”

lasted 3 hours and the startups received valuable advice!

This year’s startups expressed the need to meet with relevant actors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem to help them

address certain blockages in their businesses. On June 25th,the MIC invited 3 experts: a business lawyer, an expert

accountant and a representative from APII.

MIC Startups go global…

Amine Chouaib, a aussi brillé lors du sommet international des affaires à Istanbul (IBF). Ce sommet annuel a pour objectif de répondre aux défis du développement continu et de limiter la pauvreté. Durant cette manifestation dont le thème était « Le rôle de l’entreprenariat dans la protection de l’environnement et la modernisation du marché pour un développement continu »,

Dans le cadre du programme 4Afrika de Microsoft, Ahlem Bouchahda, a présenté sa startup « FAMISSIMA » lors du rassemblement « Demo Africa » devant un nombre important d’investisseurs et de journalistes. FAMISSIMA.com est une plateforme en ligne qui met en relation les familles directement avec des experts, et qui vise à fournir des solutions pratiques et complètes afin de faciliter la vie de famille dans ses différentes dimensions.

Le projet DISRUPT CK, representé par Zied Jallouli a quant à lui représenté la Tunisie lors du Web Summit, en Irlande, qui a réuni des spécialistes du domaine des TIC. Ce projet a aussi été choisi pour faire partie du « Programme de développement technologique au moyen orient ». Il s’agit d’un programme unique en son genre, adressé aux Startup de la région. Il est conjointement appuyé par Tunisiana Startup Factory, et de Microsoft.

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