First Community of Cyber-hackers Founded in Tunisia
22.05.12
The first organization of hackers has been founded in Tunisia. Known as HackerSpace, a group of prominent Tunisian Net-activists have joined forces to advocate for free access to information, digital freedom and to collectively set up a number of projects related to open online information.
Ali Hentati, is a 25 year old active member of the project. “We are creating a space of open source information enabling every citizen to actively partake in the information gathering, editing and sharing process. It is an excellent idea to better structure the new emerging concept of “citizen-journalism” we are all joining efforts to establish long-term sustainable strategies to guarantee the maximum amount of information freedom.”
Tunisian HackerSpace is a type of an open communitarian lab where people sharing common interests and developing similar ideas gather to carry out collaborative projects.
Tunis based Nawaat Media group, an independent platform for bloggers and independent citizen journalists in Tunisia, has opened their workspace to empower the initiative. “Nawaat has believed in the idea and is supporting us not only by opening wide their offices’ doors but also by providing us with needed equipment,” explained Ali.
Source: Tunisia Live