The Congress began on Saturday morning with brief welcoming speeches by the Congress Organizing Committee, and by Ms. Samia Barnat representing the TSS-Executive Committee. The first session was devoted to the topic of information technology. The first presentation was by Dr. Moez Limayem, Professor of Information Systems at Laval University. Dr. Limayem, emphasized that information systems are vital to a modern organization or enterprise.
Information systems increase productivity and give competetive advantage to companies.
Finally, Dr. Limayem suggested several ways that Tunisian companies can benefit from information systems and technologies. For over three decades, progress in microelectronics has continually increased the capacity of information transfer rates. The fabrication technology used for producing integrated circuits has played a key role in these developments. In addition to progress in this area, the advent of photonic devices for data transmission has further improved information processing speeds. Both of these fields were discussed in relation to recent developments in information scie nce and technology.