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Jordan and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have launched a new platform project called Jordan Internet for All, which aims to bring internet access to millions of Jordanians, including women and isolated communities for the first time through new models of public-private collaboration, Jordan Times reported. The project, which is aligned with Jordan’s Digital Transformation Strategy, will focus on addressing the barriers that prevent universal Internet access, in particular promoting demand for Internet use.

Minister of ICT Majd Shweikeh said this will be implemented by focusing on empowering women to use the Internet, facilitating the development of more relevant online content in Arabic and improving e-government services. There will also be a work stream in the project which will focus on helping refugees to integrate into Jordanian society through use of the internet, the minister said, adding that the initiative will be of a great value to both the Jordanian economy and society.

Shweikeh said the initiative will foster Jordan’s process of digitisation and will help improve the performance of the public sector, noting that Internet penetration in Jordan stands at about 85 per cent, while mobile penetration is around 150 per cent. The initiative will help in efforts to empower women, adopt e-government services and support entrepreneurship, the minister said.

Internet for All is a global project of the WEF to accelerate Internet access and adoption through a multi-stakeholder platform, according to a WEF statement. Companies such as Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Microsoft and Zain work together on this platform with government, civil society, academia and international organisations to develop and scale new internet access models, attract and coordinate investments, and align programming, the statement said.

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Quelle/Source: telecompaper, 23.05.2017

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