The Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) in Jordan has been instrumental in driving the country's digital transformation agenda. Positioning Jordan as a regional leader in digital innovation, attracting investments, fostering entrepreneurship, and improving public services through technology.
To achieve this, MoDEE has launched several key programs and initiatives, including:
Jordan Digital Transformation Strategy: Outlining the government's vision to modernize public services through digital platforms and solutions.
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project: Focused on developing digital skills, creating jobs, and promoting the digitization of government services.
Digital Business Sector Support: Providing incentives and support to digital firms and entrepreneurs.
Accelerate the Digitization of Government Payments: Promoting the adoption of digital payments for government services.
Jordanian National Entrepreneurship Policy: Creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurs and fostering innovation.
These initiatives collectively aim to strengthen Jordan's digital ecosystem, enhance its competitiveness, and improve the lives of its citizens.
Jordan Source: Aimed at promoting Jordan as a destination for investment and collaboration in the ICT sector.
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To achieve this, MoDEE has launched several key programs and initiatives, including:
Jordan Digital Transformation Strategy: Outlining the government's vision to modernize public services through digital platforms and solutions.
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project: Focused on developing digital skills, creating jobs, and promoting the digitization of government services.
Digital Business Sector Support: Providing incentives and support to digital firms and entrepreneurs.
Accelerate the Digitization of Government Payments: Promoting the adoption of digital payments for government services.
Jordanian National Entrepreneurship Policy: Creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurs and fostering innovation.
These initiatives collectively aim to strengthen Jordan's digital ecosystem, enhance its competitiveness, and improve the lives of its citizens.
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Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) project, which aims to improve digitally-enabled income opportunities
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to build an impetus for private sector-led growth of the digital sector by: (i) deepening the pool of quality digital skills; and (ii) leveraging the government's ambitious agenda of digitizing government services to create a demand for digital services and jobs. The project is structured around interventions that address constraints to both the supply and demand side of digitally skilled labor in Jordan, with Component 1 focusing on strengthening the supply of digital skills and Component 2 boosting demand in the digital economy, and hence jobs and income opportunities., product_shortcut_3=This strategy is a key pillar of Jordan's vision to modernize and streamline government services through digitization. It aims to create a fully integrated digital government by offering digital platforms and solutions that improve public services for citizens, businesses, and the government itself. Key objectives include:
E-Government Services: The strategy focuses on transitioning traditional government services to digital platforms, making them more accessible and efficient for citizens and businesses. This includes developing e-portals for various services such as business registration, tax filings, and public sector payments.
Digital Infrastructure: Enhancing the country’s digital infrastructure, including broadband access, cloud services, and cybersecurity, to support the growing needs of a digital economy and government operations.
Data-Driven Governance: The initiative encourages the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making in government operations. It seeks to improve resource allocation, monitor the impact of policies, and ensure transparency.
User-Centric Approach: The government aims to design its digital services with the end-users in mind, ensuring easy access, a seamless experience, and availability across multiple platforms, including mobile apps.
Cybersecurity: Ensuring the safety of government data and services is crucial to this strategy. It involves strengthening cybersecurity measures to protect government systems and citizens’ information from potential cyber threats., product_shortcut_4=Support the growth of digital firms and digital entrepreneurs
YTJ will provide incentive packages and matching grants to support the growth plans of local and foreign digital firms in underserved communities to help build and scale their activities and generate local job opportunities.
Create 10,000 jobs with a focus on youth, women and refugees in underserved communities
1. Employment Subsidy Incentive (Talent): aims to incentivize digital firms to create new jobs in the digital economy.
2. Market Expansion Incentive: aims to support the business development efforts of digital firms seeking to expand and secure new contracts in new local, regional, and international markets (GCC countries, Europe, China, India, and the USA, etc.)
3. Support the growth and adoption of the Gig Economy (digital platforms); the grant is open for registered civil society organization (CSO) or a non-profit organization (NPO) with at least one year of operation, experience working with youth, women and refugees in underserved communities and an innovative model for a digital gig platform.
5. Accelerate the digitization of government Payments
The project will support the government to advance penetration of digital payments in Jordan supporting e-payments for all applicable government services.
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• developing an overarching government payments architecture and roadmap,
• supporting and growing capacity of an intergovernmental task force for the digitization of government payments and revenues,
• developing a set of rules, policies, and procedures that ensure satisfactory completion of digitization projects,
• establishing and implementing a comprehensive change management program for digital payment system,
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Jordan Source
Jordan Source, a program launched by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), aims to establish Jordan as a premier destination for digitally-enabled services. It offers businesses from around the world access to a dynamic ecosystem, with Jordan providing a robust infrastructure, abundant skilled talent, and a strategically advantageous location.
Jordan Source capitalizes on Jordan's 98% 4G nationwide coverage, fiber and broadband connectivity, and competitive business costs. Additionally, Jordan's youthful, highly educated workforce—with 22% of university graduates specializing in IT and engineering—makes it an ideal hub for IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO). Women also play a significant role in the tech sector, contributing 30% of the workforce.
The program offers numerous incentives, including tax exemptions on exports, customs duties, and IT services, along with financial support for market expansion, upskilling, and employment subsidies. These incentives are designed to attract global companies, foster local partnerships, and promote digital innovation. Jordan Source helps businesses tap into new markets, scale operations, and succeed in an ever-evolving digital economy.
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project
The Ministry of Digital Economy & Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), Jordan, is the implementing agency of the
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) project, which aims to improve digitally-enabled income opportunities
and expand digitized government services in Jordan. Over the five-year lifetime of the project, YTJ aims
to build an impetus for private sector-led growth of the digital sector by: (i) deepening the pool of quality digital skills; and (ii) leveraging the government's ambitious agenda of digitizing government services to create a demand for digital services and jobs. The project is structured around interventions that address constraints to both the supply and demand side of digitally skilled labor in Jordan, with Component 1 focusing on strengthening the supply of digital skills and Component 2 boosting demand in the digital economy, and hence jobs and income opportunities.
Jordan Digital Transformation Strategy
This strategy is a key pillar of Jordan's vision to modernize and streamline government services through digitization. It aims to create a fully integrated digital government by offering digital platforms and solutions that improve public services for citizens, businesses, and the government itself. Key objectives include:
E-Government Services: The strategy focuses on transitioning traditional government services to digital platforms, making them more accessible and efficient for citizens and businesses. This includes developing e-portals for various services such as business registration, tax filings, and public sector payments.
Digital Infrastructure: Enhancing the country’s digital infrastructure, including broadband access, cloud services, and cybersecurity, to support the growing needs of a digital economy and government operations.
Data-Driven Governance: The initiative encourages the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making in government operations. It seeks to improve resource allocation, monitor the impact of policies, and ensure transparency.
User-Centric Approach: The government aims to design its digital services with the end-users in mind, ensuring easy access, a seamless experience, and availability across multiple platforms, including mobile apps.
Cybersecurity: Ensuring the safety of government data and services is crucial to this strategy. It involves strengthening cybersecurity measures to protect government systems and citizens’ information from potential cyber threats.
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Jordan Source |
Jordan Source, a program launched by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), aims to establish Jordan as a premier destination for digitally-enabled services. It offers businesses from around the world access to a dynamic ecosystem, with Jordan providing a robust infrastructure, abundant skilled talent, and a strategically advantageous location.
Jordan Source capitalizes on Jordan's 98% 4G nationwide coverage, fiber and broadband connectivity, and competitive business costs. Additionally, Jordan's youthful, highly educated workforce—with 22% of university graduates specializing in IT and engineering—makes it an ideal hub for IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO). Women also play a significant role in the tech sector, contributing 30% of the workforce.
The program offers numerous incentives, including tax exemptions on exports, customs duties, and IT services, along with financial support for market expansion, upskilling, and employment subsidies. These incentives are designed to attract global companies, foster local partnerships, and promote digital innovation. Jordan Source helps businesses tap into new markets, scale operations, and succeed in an ever-evolving digital economy. |
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project |
The Ministry of Digital Economy & Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), Jordan, is the implementing agency of the
Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) project, which aims to improve digitally-enabled income opportunities
and expand digitized government services in Jordan. Over the five-year lifetime of the project, YTJ aims
to build an impetus for private sector-led growth of the digital sector by: (i) deepening the pool of quality digital skills; and (ii) leveraging the government's ambitious agenda of digitizing government services to create a demand for digital services and jobs. The project is structured around interventions that address constraints to both the supply and demand side of digitally skilled labor in Jordan, with Component 1 focusing on strengthening the supply of digital skills and Component 2 boosting demand in the digital economy, and hence jobs and income opportunities. |
Jordan Digital Transformation Strategy |
This strategy is a key pillar of Jordan's vision to modernize and streamline government services through digitization. It aims to create a fully integrated digital government by offering digital platforms and solutions that improve public services for citizens, businesses, and the government itself. Key objectives include:
E-Government Services: The strategy focuses on transitioning traditional government services to digital platforms, making them more accessible and efficient for citizens and businesses. This includes developing e-portals for various services such as business registration, tax filings, and public sector payments.
Digital Infrastructure: Enhancing the country’s digital infrastructure, including broadband access, cloud services, and cybersecurity, to support the growing needs of a digital economy and government operations.
Data-Driven Governance: The initiative encourages the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making in government operations. It seeks to improve resource allocation, monitor the impact of policies, and ensure transparency.
User-Centric Approach: The government aims to design its digital services with the end-users in mind, ensuring easy access, a seamless experience, and availability across multiple platforms, including mobile apps.
Cybersecurity: Ensuring the safety of government data and services is crucial to this strategy. It involves strengthening cybersecurity measures to protect government systems and citizens’ information from potential cyber threats. |
Digital Business Sector |
Support the growth of digital firms and digital entrepreneurs
YTJ will provide incentive packages and matching grants to support the growth plans of local and foreign digital firms in underserved communities to help build and scale their activities and generate local job opportunities.
Create 10,000 jobs with a focus on youth, women and refugees in underserved communities
1. Employment Subsidy Incentive (Talent): aims to incentivize digital firms to create new jobs in the digital economy.
2. Market Expansion Incentive: aims to support the business development efforts of digital firms seeking to expand and secure new contracts in new local, regional, and international markets (GCC countries, Europe, China, India, and the USA, etc.)
3. Support the growth and adoption of the Gig Economy (digital platforms); the grant is open for registered civil society organization (CSO) or a non-profit organization (NPO) with at least one year of operation, experience working with youth, women and refugees in underserved communities and an innovative model for a digital gig platform.
5. Accelerate the digitization of government Payments
The project will support the government to advance penetration of digital payments in Jordan supporting e-payments for all applicable government services.
Key activities will focus on
• developing an overarching government payments architecture and roadmap,
• supporting and growing capacity of an intergovernmental task force for the digitization of government payments and revenues,
• developing a set of rules, policies, and procedures that ensure satisfactory completion of digitization projects,
• establishing and implementing a comprehensive change management program for digital payment system,
developing and implementing required digital G2P payment enablers, (both software and hard ware) (e-KYC, IBan verification, etc) and implementing IT enhancements in the ID systems to meet the needs of the financial sector |
The Jordanian national entrepreneurship policy |
The Jordanian national entrepreneurship policy for 2021-2025, developed by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, seeks to create a supportive environment for entrepreneurs by addressing regulatory, financial, and operational challenges. The policy’s primary goal is to foster an inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem that drives economic growth, reduces unemployment, and alleviates poverty, particularly among youth. It focuses on streamlining regulations to ensure transparency and support for startups, enhancing the skills of entrepreneurs through training programs, facilitating access to local, regional, and global markets, and improving access to finance through the development of venture capital and other funding mechanisms. Additionally, the policy aims to expand support systems such as incubators and accelerators, while encouraging a cultural shift towards embracing entrepreneurship and innovation. The implementation of this policy is governed by a framework that includes the private sector and civil society, with the government responsible for monitoring progress and making adjustments as needed to ensure the ecosystem’s growth and sustainability. |