AMMAN — The 23rd Jordan Economic Conference, organized by
the
Afaq Group for Media and Conference Planning, held under the title
"Innovation in E-Commerce," launched on Tuesday, September 5, with
broad international participation to strengthen economic and
investment cooperation in the Kingdom.
اضافة اعلان
Minister of Industry, trade, and Supply and the Minister of Labor,
Yousef Al-Shamali, said during the opening of the two-day conference, that the
volume of e-commerce in Jordan is still below the government’s goals, reaching
about $788 million dollars in 2020, while, globally, the volume of
e-commerce hit $5.7 trillion last year, including $37 billion earned in the Middle East
and North Africa region alone.
In 2026, the industry is projected to continue its upward
trend, reaching $8.1 trillion globally, including $57 billion in the
Middle East and North Africa.
Developing the sector
Shamali stressed that the government is working to
facilitate the transformation of existing commercial, industrial, and service
institutions to adopt e-commerce, pointing out that the challenge is to
accelerate this transformation at a
pace that exceeds its current growth.
He explained that the factors for success in this field are
many, the most prominent of which are: having a developed sector of
communications and information technology, a persistent effort to shift towards
the
economy and digital services, the establishment of a supportive legislative
and regulatory environment, close political and economic relations of the
Kingdom with other countries, growing digital skills among the youth group in
particular, and shifting toward a formal strategy for promoting innovation and
entrepreneurship that makes use of technology tools in industry, trade, and
services.
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