The Tunisian Internet Agency, known by its acronym ATI (short for Agence tunisienne d'Internet) and created on 12 March 1996, is the principal Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

n ISP

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

. It is run by the Ministry of Communications and has an equal mission to promote Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 usage in that country.

The ATI also has the task of contributing to the installation of networks in various fields (health

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

, education

Education

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 and agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

), to manage the national network and domain name

Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics,...

 (.tn

.tn

.tn is the Internet country code top-level domain for Tunisia.-Second-level domains:Registrations can be made directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath these names:* .com.tn* .ens.tn* .fin.tn* .gov.tn* .ind.tn* .intl.tn...

) to launch website

Website

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s and organize trainings and workshops.

Its customers are other ISPs, government agencies

Government agency

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, state-run firms

Government-owned corporation

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, research centres, etc.