Faced with a significant rise in demand for health care services during the pandemic, technology has proven to be a useful tool in overcoming the capacity limits of health care facilities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the UAE. This report looks at how each of these markets reacted to the pandemic in its initial stages, the role of digital health services in improving access to information and…
E-government services will play an important role in supporting Jordan’s mid-term development strategy. The Jordan Economic Growth Plan (JEGP) 2018-22 targets 12% annual growth in the ICT sector during the period. Planned improvements to the kingdom’s business environment entail launching new online business licensing and other services, while efforts to crack down on corruption and boost…
Holding the potential to become a major economic growth driver, Jordan’s ICT sector has seen decades of robust telecoms expansion and a liberalisation agenda launched in the early 2000s, supporting rapid growth in mobile penetration and internet usage. Jordan is slated to benefit from rising next-generation mobile broadband adoption, while its broader ICT sector has been the focus of a series…
Interview:Ghazi Al Jobor How are local operators diversifying their services, and which new digital services will drive growth? GHAZI AL JOBOR: Service providers have started moving away from traditional telecommunications services to new digital services, such as e-wallets and near field communication, data bundles with specific over-the-top (OTT) applications and smart Internet of Things…
Holding the potential to become a major economic growth driver, Jordan’s ICT sector has seen decades of robust telecoms expansion and a liberalisation agenda launched in the early 2000s, supporting rapid growth in mobile penetration and internet usage. Jordan’s ICT sector has been the focus of a series of recent government reforms aimed at supporting macroeconomic growth, with new lending programmes…
The country has made progress in key areas, reducing its fiscal deficit from 10.3% of GDP in 2014, to 3.2% in 2016 and an estimated 2.5% in 2017. Real GDP growth has also seen improvement, rising from a 25-year low of 2% in 2016 to 2.2% the following year. Moving forward the focus is set to shift towards green and digital expansion in line with the country’s new mid-term economic agenda, the Jor
A recently launched roadmap for the development of Jordan’s ICT sector aims to attract capital inflows on the back of recent government moves to reduce the tax burden on companies operating in the industry. Mapping out new ICT targets At the MENA ICT Forum 2016 hosted by Jordan in mid-November, Majd Shweikeh, minister of ICT, unveiled the REACH 2025 initiative, which aims to turn Jordan into…
Interview:Majd Shweikeh How is strategy being developed to guarantee data protection and advance cybersecurity? MAJD SHWEIKEH: In 2012 the government of Jordan passed the National Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Strategy with the objective of providing a structure that involves and empowers all concerned entities to more effectively secure computer networks, and to operate, control…
Jordan’s start-up sector is poised for major growth in the coming years, with the kingdom standing as one of the largest and most dynamic tech hubs in the MENA region, supported by government policy and, increasingly, private sector investment into tech entrepreneurship. Landscape Jordan has more than 600 tech companies, more than any Arab country, of which more than 300 are start-ups, according…
Technological transformation and supportive state policies have led to 15 years of rapid growth in the kingdom’s ICT sector, now among the largest in its economy. Liberalisation in the 1990s and early 2000s made its telecoms industry one of the most open in the MENA region, but in recent years both telecoms and IT growth have suffered as a result of slowing macroeconomic growth, weakening global…
