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ALLAFRICA

Tunis — As part of the development process in Tunisian regions, Kairouan's library will soon turn digital.

The library which will be equipped with the latest cutting edge technology in 2010, aims at providing Kairouan people and those in remote rural areas with the benefits of digital technology.

This achievement will boost the dissemination of digital culture and the advent of knowledge society in Tunisia.

Inscribed since 1988 on the UNESCO's World Heritage List and proclaimed as Capital of Islamic Culture for 2009, Kairouan was and remains a scientific and technological pole.

During an international symposium on the "digital divide and ways to cope with it in the Islamic World", "2009 Call of Kairouan" was launched to dessiminate digital practices and technologies in Islamic countries.