The role of the nongovernmental organizations in the company of information

It is commonly allowed, that the multiplication of the nongovernmental organisations is a product of the industrial company, since it acted, at the beginning of XXème century, to face the resulting social disturbances and to meet the new needs for solidarity, mutual aid and reciprocity. A second wave of associations emerged in a stage later, to consolidate the humans right in their political, economic aspects and socioculturels.

But, after the fall of the Soviet block and the appearance of the concept of economic universalization, the role of associations becomes increasingly determining for progress, owing to the fact that the evolution will be made in adequacy with the mechanisms of the company of information and that the motorways of the communications will support the circulation of the international exchanges in particular, in immaterial goods without consideration of borders or trade barriers.

Thus, the concept of universalization can sufficiently be perceived clearly only if it is located, within the framework of a global vision, fascinating of account the whole of the changes which we know, since the beginning of this decade.

For better seizing the degree of connection of these various aspects with the policy guidelines of our country, we will try to analyze the whole of the subject through the following points: - the mission of associative fabric in the processes of universalization; - levels of the associative action in the company of tomorrow; - conditions of development of the action associative

a - Mission of associative fabric in the process of universalization
   The program of American development N.I.T. (the national infrastructure for information) adopted by President Clinton, dice his election in 1992, planned for the construction of the company of information (information super highway), a redistribution of the roles between the various two sides of industry; within this framework, a major role is allotted to the organisations of the civil company, to compensate the action of the State and the public sector, in the development of many tele-services in social, educational or cultural matter (medicine, education, training, etc… transport).
   In all the countries, one estimates that the public revenue must drop, in a first stage, following the various suppressions of customs rights and taxes on consumption. The private sector must deal with larger part in the national investments and the ONG must assume a more consistent mission in the social action. 
It is not by chance that the number of the ONG in the United States doubled in 10 years, to reach in 1997 the figure record of a million 500 thousand associations, and according to certain statistics, the contribution of the American nongovernmental organisations would have exceeded in 1996 the 10% of the GDP.

   In general, the role of the ONG will consist more and more with: - To consolidate the evolution of the sectors conceded by the public authorities with the private sector; - To prepare the citizen with the disturbances which the emergence of the company of information involves; - To promote the mechanisms of arbitration and conciliation for the new types of litigation's generated by this new company; - To take care of the respect of the payments and ethics defined for the installation of the new tele-services; - To protect the right of the consumers and the intellectual property from the producers; - To face the shelves of the transborder surges of the immaterial goods.

c - conditions of development of associations in a country emergent
   In Tunisia, the emergence of the company of information will be concretised, more and more during ten next years and will result in the intensive development of the electronic trade, the fast movement of the capital and the publication of new Tele-services. An action any azimuth is necessary to the training of young people for new technologies of the communication and the general levelling of the various social components for the requirements of the company of information. As underlined President Ben Ali in his speech of April 23, 1996 " the integral levelling which we chose as average to carry out the progress … order with associations to work in order to widen the awakening screw-A-screw these challenges … so that the associative action is at the same time a support and a complement with the action of the State. Indeed, the State assumes the mission of the development in its broadest dimensions; on their side, associations, according to their fields of specialisation and their activities, organise the sectors of interest of their members, by enracinant in the latter the love of the good deed and the abnegation… ". Indeed, the action falls at the same time on the State, the public sector, the private sector, the parties which frame the political life and with the sector of the civil company, which has the essential role the voluntariate and the action of good faisance. Any annoying shelf or use of the fabric association apart from this precise framework on a scale international, regional, or national, would move away association from its natural vocation and would bring it closer to a statute which is not it his.