Synchronoss Anuncia Forte Crescimento da Plataforma de Mensagens na Ásia-Pacífico Alimentado por Mensagens Avançadas

Provedores de Serviços Globais Utilizam Plataformas Synchronoss para Fornecer Serviços de Valor Agregado a Dezenas de Milhões de Assinantes

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Feb. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (“Synchronoss” ou a “Empresa”) (Nasdaq: SNCR), líder global e inovadora em nuvem, mensagens e produtos e plataformas digitais, anunciou hoje o seu forte crescimento na região Ásia-Pacífico, como resultado do crescimento do Synchronoss Advanced Messaging. Por meio de parcerias com provedores de serviços globais, especificamente no Japão, a empresa continua a expandir sua presença global, apoiando dezenas de milhões de assinantes na região.

No Japão, a tecnologia Rich Communications Service (RCS) permite que os consumidores se envolvam com segurança com marcas e empresas, e proporcionem a melhor experiência de usuário para os clientes japoneses. Através de uma parceria de longa data com a WIT Software, a Synchronoss Advanced Messaging está permitindo que as operadoras móveis NTT DOCOMO, KDDI e SoftBank implantem uma experiência RCS entre operadoras com 32,5 milhões de assinantes.

“É um grande prazer testemunhar o sucesso único do serviço +Message no Japão com base na plataforma de mensagens WIT RCS e, juntamente com a Synchronoss, estamos prontos para alavancar a nossa oferta comum de mensagens amplas para outras operadoras que desejam gerar novas oportunidades de receita”, disse Luis Silva, CEO da WIT Software.

Outro proeminente provedor de serviços na Ásia-Pacífico anunciou recentemente um marco importante, o fornecimento de serviços de e-mail para mais de 50 milhões de usuários. A completa plataforma de e-mail, alimentada pelo Synchronoss Email Suite e pela plataforma de mensagens principal Mx9, é altamente escalonável e garante a segurança e a privacidade dos dados dos assinantes.

“As recentes implantações e marcos são resultado do impulso das nossas plataformas de mensagens na região da Ásia-Pacífico”, disse Jeff Miller, Presidente e CEO da Synchronoss. “Este ano, esperamos trabalhar com nossos parceiros estratégicos, especialmente a WIT Software, para oferecer soluções de mensagens inovadoras que permitam novas maneiras de conectar, colaborar, engajar e realizar negócios.”

Sobre a Synchronoss
A Synchronoss Technologies (Nasdaq: SNCR) cria software que capacita empresas ao redor do mundo a se conectarem com seus assinantes de forma confiável e significativa. O conjunto de produtos da empresa ajuda a agilizar as redes, simplificar a integração e envolver os assinantes, permitindo novos fluxos de receita, redução dos custos e aumento da velocidade no mercado. Centenas de milhões de assinantes confiam nos produtos da Synchronoss que se mantêm em sincronia com as pessoas, serviços e conteúdo que elas gostam. Saiba mais em www.synchronoss.com

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Sub-Saharans in Tunisia: Saied’s untruths

The President accuses civil society of encouraging the settlement of undocumented sub-Saharan migrants in the country. Kais Saied denounces those who want to “change the demographic make-up” of the country, citing “violence and crime”. His proof? The Ministry of Interior, contacted by Nawaat, says it has no statistics on the number of migrants involved in criminal cases. And the facts sweep away the xenophobic fantasies.

By Rihab Boukhayatia

President Kais Saied lashed out at the “hordes of illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa”. Urgent” measures are needed to stop this “ceaseless flow” that causes “violence and crime”, Saied told a meeting of the National Security Council on February 21. These unprecedentedly virulent comments were taken up in a statement posted on the official Facebook page of the Tunisian presidency, sparking a heated debate on social media. The next day, the Head of State persisted and signed during a visit to the premises of the Tunisian Company of Pharmaceutical Industries on February 22, attacking those who want to “change the demographic composition of Tunisia.”

These comments come amid rising hate speech against migrants in Tunisia. The Tunisian nationalist party, which is very active on social media and openly xenophobic, has called for the expulsion of undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

This party now has the right to be heard, as its members are received and listened to by representatives of the state. On December 29, 2022, the governor of Ariana received members of this movement. A month later, on February 9, 2023, members of the party even posted on Facebook a picture of them with an official from the Prime Ministry. But for such controversial statements to be taken up at the very top of the state is unprecedented.

Conspiracy rhetoric

The President of the Republic embraced the rhetoric of the Tunisian nationalist party. He pointed the finger at ‘a criminal arrangement launched at the beginning of this century with the aim of changing the demographic composition of Tunisia’. And he denounced ‘third parties that have received huge funding since 2011 to populate the country with illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa’. The President of the Republic continues his conspiracy theory by arguing that there is an “unspoken” objective behind this arrangement. Namely, to strip Tunisia of its Arab-Muslim identity and reduce it to its African dimension.

This anti-migrant rant refers to the “Great Replacement” theory introduced in 2010 by French writer Renaud Camus. Having become the focus of political debates in France, this theory has been exported to other countries, this time reaching Tunisia. A country with a large diaspora abroad.

In France, the leader of the “Reconquête” party, Eric Zemmour, welcomed Saied’s speech and used it to defend his call to expel undocumented migrants from his country. Even French far right figures are no longer making such virulent speeches in a concern for respectability.

Tunisia has a population of just over 11 million. But only about 57,000 sub-Saharan migrants live there, according to estimates by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). The National Survey on International Migration, published in 2021 and carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) and the National Migration Observatory, puts the figure at almost 59,000. However, these two organizations are not part of the civil society that Kais Saied denounces, but of the state.

The arrival of migrants in Tunisia is not the result of a settlement arrangement, but of a national policy and a regional context. The abolition of visas to enter Tunisia for nationals of many sub-Saharan countries has contributed to this migration. This visa exemption, granted for years by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was intended to boost business exchanges with these countries.

As a result, many migrants have entered Tunisia legally. Among them are students who have come to study in Tunisia within the framework of bilateral cooperation between Tunisia and their country of origin. Moreover, the illegal status of some of them in Tunisia is due to the administrative paperwork that hampers the renewal of their residence permits.

More generally, the intention of many migrants is not to settle in or colonize Tunisia, but to make it a transit country to Europe. According to the survey conducted by the INS and the National Migration Observatory, almost two-thirds of sub-Saharan migrants intend to leave Tunisia.

Arab-Muslim identity under threat?

According to the same survey, migrants in Tunisia come mainly from the Maghreb (37%), other African countries (36.4%) and Europe (18.5%). Of the 6,068 refugees and asylum seekers, 45.4% are Syrians, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tunis in September 2022. Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers come from a variety of countries, many of which are Muslim or have a large Muslim population, such as Libya, Mali or Eritrea.

Saied’s comments seem to echo those of the Tunisian nationalist party, which refers to the expansion of sub-Saharan churches. First of all, the Tunisian constitution guarantees freedom of belief and worship. The move by Christian migrants to establish their places of worship is part of a logic of resourcefulness in response to the absence of the state, Ali Belhaj, a teacher, researcher and expert on international migration, tells Nawaat. “They had to find their own solutions. We find places of worship, restaurants, venues for parties intended for them,” he adds.

For the expert, the Tunisian state is absent when it comes to managing migratory flows. Kais Saied is pitying a situation for which he himself is responsible.

A complicit civil society?

The arrival of migrants by illegal means is subject to human trafficking and smuggling. These traffickers always act illegally, plundering migrants in the process. According to the 2022 report of the National Authority for the Fight against Trafficking in Persons (INLTP), 54% of victims of trafficking in 2021 were foreigners. Of these 64% were Ivorians.

It is not civil society that encourages the arrival of migrants but rather the trafficking networks.

Far from facilitating the settlement of migrants in Tunisia, the UNHCR has been accused by refugees and asylum seekers of abandoning them. Homeless and lacking financial resources, they say they want to leave Tunisia for other countries. In July 2022, protesters staged a sit-in at the organization’s headquarters in Tunis.

Some components of civil society, such as the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), Terre d’asile, Médecins du Monde, etc., are working to improve the chaotic situation of migrants in Tunisia. These organizations have had to fight for access to health and education for migrants. These rights are guaranteed on paper, as the constitution grants them regardless of the beneficiary’s nationality or status.

The role of civil society is also to draw attention to the economic exploitation of migrants. Contrary to the claims of the Tunisian nationalist party, migrant workers do not steal jobs from Tunisians. Migrants work in sectors such as catering, agriculture and construction that are shunned by the Tunisian workforce.

Kais Saied accuses migrants of violence and criminality without providing any figures or facts to back up his statements. When contacted by Nawaat, Faker Bouzghaya, press and communication officer at the Ministry of Interior, said that his ministry does not have statistics on the number of migrants involved in criminal cases. “Our statistics are not based on ethnic or racial criteria,” he explains.

In sum, Saied’s comments seem to tap into the prejudice and racism currently flourishing on social media. The head of state adopts racist and xenophobic language, leaving migrants at the mercy of mob justice and police crackdown.

*Rihab Boukhayatia

Specializing in rights and freedoms, I have been a journalist at Nawaat since 2019, where I also cover social issues. A lawyer by training, I also do research in political science alongside my work.

Source: Africa News Agency

8th Human Screen festival to focus on “Women Peace and Security”, line-up includes 37 films from 16 countries

The 8th edition of the Human Screen Festival (HSF), the International Human Rights Film Festival of Tunis – Karama Tunisia, will take place from March 4 to 8, 2023, in Tunis and in four other governorates of the republic.

A selection of 37 films from 16 countries is in the line-up for this 2023 edition under the theme “Women Peace and Security”. This theme coincides with the values conveyed by International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8 each year, which is also the day the festival starts.

The selected films will compete for the 5 festival prizes in the categories of feature and documentary films, short fiction and documentary films and animation films.

The programme of this edition was unveiled during a press conference held on Tuesday at the Cité de la Culture in the presence of the organising committee of Human Screen Festival.

The festival will take place in the capital with special programming in the governorates of Tozeur, Gabes, Kasserine and Mahdia which will see the screening of 13 films.

The screenings in Tunis will take place at the Tahar Cherira Hall for fiction films and at the Omar Khelifi Hall for documentary films.

The opening ceremony at the Tahar Chérira hall will see the screening of “Beirut Eye of the Storm” by the Palestinian Mai Masry.

Critic and member of the organising committee Nacer Sardi said that the 37 films on the programme were selected from among 3,400 applications received by the festival.

They represent Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, South Korea, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey.

The organisers have announced the creation of an award for the best animated film. The animation competition is composed of two films, one Iranian short film “The Sprayers” (9′, 2022), and another Palestinian “Night” (16′, 2022).

Four Tunisian productions, from 2022, are included in four competitive sections. These are the feature films “TranStyx” by Moncef Zahrouni (fiction, 65′) and “The guardians of Margoum” by Akram Moncer (documentary, 54′), and the short films “Le Chemin de la Mort” by Nasreddine Ragam (fiction, 9′) and “Nidhal” by Bassem ben Brahem (documentary, 10′).

On the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of Tunisian cinema, a tribute will be paid to five filmmakers who have marked the history of national cinema, including Haydée Tamzali, actress, Hassiba Rochdi, actress and singer, Anissa Lotfi, actress, Nejia ben Mabrouk, director and Selma Baccar, director and producer.

Human Screen Festival Tunisia is a film event created in 2012 by the Tunisian Cultural Association for Integration and Training – ACTIF.

This festival is organised with the support of the National Centre for Cinema and Image (CNCI) and several other national and international partners who are active in the defence of human rights and women’s rights in particular.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Videoconference on partnership between Tunisia and WIPO

Ways to strengthen partnership between Tunisia and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was the focus of a videoconference on Tuesday between Hayet Ketat Guermazi, Minister of Cultural Affairs, and Sylvie Forbin, WIPO Deputy Director General.

The Ministry of Cultural Affairs said in a statement the two sides discussed the partnership between the Tunisian Copyright and Neighboring Rights Organisation (OTDAV) and the UN organization in charge of services, policies, information and cooperation in intellectual property.

They discussed mechanisms for developing Tunisian policies and skills in intellectual property and the possibility of setting up a national strategy for copyright and related rights, the same source added.

WIPO is a United Nations agency created in 1967 with 193 member states. The mission of this global body based in Geneva (Switzerland) is “to promote the development of a balanced and effective international intellectual property system… “.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Jendouba: 300 needy families receive aid

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates distributed aid in kind to 300 needy families in the governorate of Jendouba in the delegations of Ain Drahem Ghardimaou Fernena and Balta-Bou Aouane.

In this regard, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Tunisia, Imen Ahmed Mohamed Sellami said that these aids underline the depth of the fraternal ties between Tunisia and the UAE.

For his part, Jendouba Governor Sami Kouka said that the aid, worth an estimated 1400 dinars per unit, will support the efforts of associations established in the region to help families who were victims of the cold wave that occurred last December and January.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Genome sequencing devices provided to Charles Nicolle Hospital and Institut Pasteur (Louzir)

Director of the Institut Pasteur Hechmi Louzir said Tuesday that genome sequencing devices have been provided to Charles Nicolle Hospital and the Institut Pasteur, as part of the “Med Net” project which started in 2020 in partnership with the Ministry of Health, the Italian Embassy, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Italian Institute Teramo.

Louzir said during a scientific day held at the WHO office in Tunis on Tuesday, that training will be provided to doctors working in these two institutions for the use of this equipment, pointing out that the Med Net project, which started in 2020 in concomitance with the COVID-19 pandemic aims to strengthen the capacity of Tunisian doctors in genome sequencing.

He said that Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital in Monastir and Habib Bourguiba University Hospital in Sfax will also be equipped with similar genome sequencing equipment.

WHO representative in Tunis Ibrahim El-Zik stressed the importance of using sequencing techniques to identify the different strains of viruses and bacteria in order to fight and prevent the spread of viruses during pandemics.

“This project will make it possible to set up a Mediterranean network of information and exchange of experiences in the field of public health and to fight against any pandemics that may emerge,” he added.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse