"The law is currently being reviewed by the legal committee at the Opinion and Legislation Bureau and will be referred to the Council of Ministers next weeks to be endorsed," Minister of Information and Communications Technology Marwan Juma told The Jordan Times over the phone yesterday.
Stressing the importance of the law, the minister said the law will promote and protect e-commerce in the Kingdom.
The amended law recognises electronic signatures as legal tender and will facilitate e-transactions and enable the government to start the promotion of e-government services, according to the minister.
In parallel with the law, software will be developed to protect e-commerce correspondence, transactions and documentation.
A report released by the Arab Advisers Group this month indicated that Jordan's e-commerce users spent around $192 million in e-transactions (buying products, paying for services and paying bills online) in the past 12 months.
It also revealed that 15.4 per cent of Internet users in the country are e-commerce users.
The report estimates the number of Internet users in Jordan who use e-commerce to be more than 181,000 which is around 3 per cent of the country's total population.
The report, titled "Jordan Internet users and e-commerce survey 2010", provides the results of a comprehensive online survey of Internet users in the Kingdom.
"The survey results encompass answers from 1,021 respondents that passed rigorous quality control checks," according to a statement released by the Arab Advisers Group, which added that it probed the patterns and trends of Internet use in Jordan, including online and video gaming, mobile Internet, e-commerce, online banking (e-banking) and e-government.
Meanwhile, Juma announced that the government will launch an electronic service next week enabling Jordanians to obtain security clearances and background check certificates electronically.
The service will be the first of several e-government services to be offered over the next year to save citizens' time and effort and enhance the performance of the public sector.
Jordanians will be able to pay for the issuance of security clearance through a soon-to-be launched website and the Jordanian e-Payment Gateway.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Mohammad Ghazal
Quelle/Source: Zawya, 21.09.2010
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