The Ministry’s assignment is to set up a regulatory framework that organizes the sector, planning, control and supervision in order to enable the country to acquire new technology. It also provides support for development, attracts investment and encourages Tunisian enterprises’ export work and competitiveness.

To this end, the Ministry is responsible for: 

• Elaborating strategic studies in the field of telecommunications
• Supervising research programs and industrial activities and fitting these to the sector’s requirements
• Setting out the standards and specifications peculiar to the sector
• Following up ongoing technological progress and introducing this in the context of the economic and social development plans
• Supervising investors and, where necessary, intervening in the concerned enterprises to help them obtain services that come under this sector in the best possible conditions
• Following up agents’ activities in the field of telecommunications and postal services
• Setting up an organizational and regulatory framework to ensure the sector operates correctly, and introducing the structural and functional changes required by the demands of efficiency and quality in this domain
• Making best use of human resources by installing an in-work training and re-training in order to improve the professional abilities of those working in the sector
• Developing international cooperation and partnership in the field of telecommunications.

The Ministry also carries out the following functions:
 

• Making sure the technical standards and specifications are complied with
• Following up the activity of the enterprises that come under it, by studying and updating projects in the field of their activity and monitoring how they put their program contracts and objectives contracts into effect.
• Introducing a national information technology strategy by setting up a national computer plan falling within the development plan, and making sure the plan’s objectives are achieved and put into effect.
• Bringing about synergy between the ministerial departments by encouraging inter-ministerial computer programs and stimulating innovative projects.
• Encouraging the exchange of information between public structures via national networks and the creation of national information systems.
• Promoting new technology in the field of computer technology, and, to this end, suggesting all research-related steps likely to intensify the use and development of such technology, as well as any other legislative or regulatory action or measure with a view to developing the software industry and computer engineering services.
• Drafting model contract conditions and guides as part of help to the public purchaser.