COUNTRY FOCUS: JORDAN
This month’s Country
Focus examines how the
transformative potential of
Jordan has been recognised by
leading technology companies
targeting the country’s up-and-
coming talent with ambitious
training programmes.
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Up-and-coming talent
targeted by tech companies
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Orange Jordan launches
programming academy
Orange Jordan has opened a coding
academy to enhance the cyberskills of
the country’s young people. The coding
academy will provide students with an
opportunity to acquire programming skills
with a focus on Java and Python.
Fifty young men and women, between
the ages of 18 and 30, were officially
selected to participate in the first batch
of the academy’s project, where they are
participating in an intensive six-month free
training programme before embarking on
a month of work experience at companies
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operating in Jordan. Following its launch,
Engineer Muthanna Gharaibeh, Minister
of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship,
stressed the importance of having
programming academies aimed at
developing the digital skills of the country’s
young men and women.
He said that the government is working on
several programmes to qualify trainees to
deal efficiently with the requirements of the
digital economy and provide them with the
programming skills required today.
He also thanked Orange Jordan for its
involvement in training which, he said,
enabled the country to keep up with current
technological developments and the Fourth
Industrial Revolution.
Terry Marini, Orange Jordan CEO, said it
was the first academy of its kind opened
by the Orange International Group in the
Middle East. He explained it was launched in
partnership with Simplon.Co International
and expects it to achieve the same success as
the other programming academies launched
by the group in Senegal and France.
Marini stressed that Information Technology,
including programming languages, plays an
important role in the national economy and
cited the increasing number of jobs in the
technology sector as evidence. He explained
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