IT Association

http://www.ijma3.org
Representing the Arab ICT private sector.
ICT is an important growth industry for many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. An educated multilingual workforce, rising demand for Arabic content, and increasingly globalized economies have generated dynamic ICT sectors around the Middle East and North Africa.

Recognizing the opportunities that exist for cooperation, the pooling of resources, and the sharing of best practices, an alliance was recently formed linking the preeminent ICT industry associations from the region’s key ICT producing countries. This alliance – the Union of Arab ICT Associations, its Arabic name, IJMA3 (Ittihad Jameyet Maaloumatiyah Arabiya) also meaning “to calculate” – was formed during a regional ICT conference at the Dead Sea in Jordan in March 2004. Founding members include the ICT associations of: Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon. Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, and Iraq have subsequently joined the union, bringing the total number of members to ten.

IJMA3 was formed with the belief and determination that it will accelerate the process of development in the Arab countries since it links the most prominent ICT associations of the region together. As a uniting platform of the Arabic ICT private sector, IJMA3, through establishing a clear vision of IT in the region, overcoming barriers, initiating projects and events, and providing coordination and cooperation between the different country members, will help the Arab world grab its endless ICT opportunities to improve development whether social, economic, political, or other in the very near future.

*Contact Person:
Nizar Zakka
CEO - Secretary General
Union of Arab ICT Associations

* Address:
IJMA3, Union of Arab ICT Associations, Beirut, Lebanon
Phone: 961-1-985 440
Fax : 961-1-985 441 / 961-1-985 441
Email : info@ijma3.org
Country: Lebanon