Tunisia Adopts Law to Promote Entrepreneurship, Digital Startups

“A bill on the promotion of start-ups to encourage entrepreneurship with digital content has been adopted by the Cabinet meeting and will soon be tabled in the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) for approval,” Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said on Monday. Speaking at the closing of the Tunisian-Spanish business forum, held at the headquarters of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), on the theme “Tunisia-Spain: Economic Reforms and Investments”, he recalled the major reforms initiated by the government to improve the climate, referring namely to the new…

Tunisian Maher Damak, MIT PhD student awarded in USA

A tech using electrical fields to recapture water vapour that normally escapes from cooling towers attached to big power plants was invented by “Infinite Cooling” a startup co-founded by Maher Damak, a 28-year-old Tunisian, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston, USA. Water from the collected steam is recycled back into cooling. “Power plants consume a lot of water; they use this water for their cooling system. Currently, all this water is lost, as it evaporates from the towers of power plants. So…