LONDON, March 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of the Tunisian nascent democracy, Toluna, the first social voting network has put together a special task force to launch toluna.tn, to allow the people of Tunisia to share their opinions and vote on a number of different topics.

Founder and CEO of Toluna, Frederic Charles Petit commented "the Tunisian people are very dear to my heart and therefore I wanted to give them the opportunity to be able to freely share their thoughts and opinions via Toluna's global online social voting community. With Selim Turki heading our task force there is no doubt this community will be a success".

Toluna.com now has social voting communities in 35 countries across the world.

Toluna is the world's leading independent online panel and survey technology provider to the global market research industry. The company provides online sample and survey technology solutions to the world's leading market research agencies, media agencies and corporations, from its 17 offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

Unlike other panel providers, Toluna has developed a unique online community approach to the management of its panels. Through the use of web 2.0-based technology it has created the world's first social voting community site toluna.com, focusing on maximizing panellist engagement to offer increased survey responsiveness and data reliability to its clients.

In addition Toluna is enabling organisations to generate valuable customer insight by creating, hosting and managing their own online communities using its software as a service community management solution; PanelPortal ( http://www.toluna-group.com/en/software/panel-community/the-solution-/). Toluna's portfolio of research technology solutions also include QuickSurveys (http://us.tolunapro.com/ManageSurveys.aspx) - an online self-service tool that enables you to ask 15 questions and receive 2,000 responses in a few hours, Interactive Voice Response, mobile survey capabilities and BrandSpector a new approach to measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of online advertising campaigns using Toluna's online panel.