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Empower women to work more in the digital economy and support women in being part of digital services.
The aim of this action is to unlock the untapped potential the educated female workforce. According to UN
and int@j figures, the current percentage of women in tech sectors is 30%, but the potential is 50%. Moreover,
the action sets out to empower women to be part of the digital economy, allowing women to drive usage and
demand for digital services.
Source: DTI
Support actions
The supporting actions have the purpose of ensuring that the lead actions can be reached. In other words,
they can be said to be the prerequisites for the success of the lead actions.
The supporting actions have the strategic objective of improving the enabling and investment environment
for tech companies and digital innovation, including emerging industries.
Box 3: Support actions
Enabling business environment
Action 11 – Creating an open, stable and enabling business environment for the digital economy
…by streamlining and revising processes, laws and regulations
Lead government-wide overhaul of policies and regulations to develop enabling legislative framework for digital
companies, products and services, reduce administrative burden on companies and create regulatory stability
and visibility.
Action 12 – Building a high-performance and attractive investment environment
…with an emphasis on the availability of scaling and growth capital and FDI
Significantly increase the availability of growth capital (Seed and follow-on investments). The action aims to
address the weakness of gaps in funding cycles, and provides a potential for the market to make up to the lack
of government funding and drive one of the most competitive digital economies of the world.
Action 13 - Becoming an early adopter country and regional beta-tester for key emerging
technologies
…by supporting experimentation
Map and drive the adoption of new technologies and support experimentation, in particularly by the public
sector. The action addresses the weakness of several key technologies being heavily controlled in Jordan.
Controlled openness is necessary to allow for the experimentation needed to be the beta tester of the region.
Smart digital economy infrastructure
Action 14 - Establishing a state-of-the-art secure digital infrastructure
…by developing information and cyber security practices and regulations, revising
spectrum pricing and investing in the national broadband infrastructure and laying the path for 5G
Create a competitive, privately owned infrastructure with a focus on data traffic across networks. Leading
digital economies continuously focus on supporting commercially feasible models for the development of
future telecommunication networks, and so should Jordan, to ensure a state-of-the-art digital infrastructure
for its businesses and citizens.
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