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Tunisia's Date Exports: One Dollar of Water in Every Two
The fossil water behind Tunisia's exported dates is worth about half the revenue those exports earn — and falling water-per-tonne is hiding rising extraction.
Studio
Studio of open data intelligence.
tanitdata is a studio of open data intelligence, operating from Tunisia for North Africa and beyond. We build the end-to-end layer between open data and public understanding in the age of artificial intelligence — for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and civil society.
A mission-driven studio for open data, open science, and open governance — building AI-native tools, public-interest research, and partnerships that make open data easier to access, analyze, and use, with particular attention to the Global South.
Three stages, one practice
Access, analyze, inform — a single practice that closes the gap between public data and public understanding in the age of AI. Each stage below surfaces the work that serves it; the same work is also organized into long-term programs.
Access
All toolsAI-native access to open data, so that reaching a dataset is as immediate as asking a question.
Public Data
agridata MCP
A Model Context Protocol server connecting LLM clients to Tunisia's open agricultural data.
Public Data
INS MCP
Ask Tunisia's national statistics in plain language — an MCP server over the INS data portal.
Public Data
ONEM MCP
A qualifier-aware MCP server over Tunisia's national energy statistics (2010–2026), derived from public ONEM reports.
Public Data
tanitmap-ai
The first agentic map for Tunisian agricultural data — ask in natural language, get a chart, map, table, or short text in return.
Analyze
All researchThe studio and its research fellows turn accessible data into conclusions that are specific, contestable, and empirically grounded.
First analyses coming soon.
Inform
All publicationsPublishing designed for how public actors, funders, journalists, and civil society actually read.
AI & Governance
Importing Intelligence: What Production-Centric AI Sovereignty Misses
A political-economy analysis of LLM token flow: dependence is concentrating in the flow layer — the gates every inference request must clear — not in who produces models.
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Southern Tunisia's Date Oases: Monitor the Aquifer, Not the Yields
Twenty-two years of satellite data: the aquifer is draining, harvests keep growing, but climate is starting to show through in good and bad years again.
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Sidi Bouzid's Solar Paradox: Diffusion Without a State
Seven points to understand how 3,201 solar pumps appeared in Sidi Bouzid without public subsidy, and what the 2025 Finance Law still needs to fix.
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Tunisia's 2026 Oil Shock: A Six-to-Nine-Month Policy Window
A stress test of Tunisia's exposure to the 2026 Middle East oil shock, using IFs v8.28 across a moderate and a protracted scenario, with three sequenced policy recommendations.
Programs
All programsThe same work also lives under long-term programs — the strategic questions that organize what the studio builds, analyzes, and publishes.
Principles
- AI-native. Infrastructure, research, and analysis designed for the age of AI assistants — not retrofitted.
- Autonomous. A studio with multiple partners, no parent organization.
- Grounded. Strategic analysis rests on concrete technical work.
- Public. Open data should remain openly accessible.
These principles are set out in full as the studio's working method. How we work
Partners
tanitdata works with partners who share the studio's commitment to public access to data. None holds parent-organization status.
