models, enablers and levers to the Jordan differentiators, to create the best model for a digital economy in Jordan. This means creating an action plan for Jordan that ensures relevance in global value chains and addresses the challenges in Jordan. Box 1: A new way of approaching economic transformation in Jordan – Reach 2025 The vision, mission and action plan seeks to streamline the economic transformation across the entire Jordan economy through digitization. With the plan, Jordan is moving away from seeing ICT as an isolated sector and towards digitizing the entire Jordanian economy with emphasis on niche markets and global value chains. Fundamentally, this vision and action plan seeks to accelerate digitization across Jordan and support, enable and inspire the next generation of digital entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs building on Jordan’s strength of being a young and tech-savvy nation. The aim of this vision is to support and accelerate Jordan’s economic goals, create jobs for all Jordanians, empower women and position Jordan in the future digital global economy, through a clear alignment with the Jordan Vision 2025. This process includes introducing new mechanisms to initiate a different level of economic dialogue that will address key national development needs. KEY TRENDS THAT DRIVE THE FUTURE The world is looking at the Fourth Digital Revolution. It combines multiple technologies that are leading to unprecedented paradigm shifts in the economy, business, society, and individually2. This means that increasingly, sectors are disrupted and increasingly digitized. This offers immense opportunities for networked societies, but it also poses threats if timely actions are not taken. In countries such as Germany and Denmark, this revolution has been addressed through focus on Industry 4.0 – next generation manufacturing. However, the fourth industrial revolution is not only about smart and connected machines and systems; its scope is much wider. A great number of technology breakthroughs emerge, covering wide-ranging fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage and quantum computing, to name a few. Many of these innovations are in their infancy, but rapidly growing in importance as they build on and amplify each other in a fusion of technologies across the physical, digital and biological worlds. Waves of further breakthroughs in areas ranging from gene sequencing to nanotechnology, from renewables to quantum computing, are occurring simultaneously, 2 Schwab, Klaus (2016): The Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum