AMMAN — Jordan's
Economic and Social Council (ESC) recently reviewed the situation of the information and
communications technology sector, both in-person and remotely, as part of State
of the Country Report 2021, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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An ESC statement issued Saturday
said that the reports was launched during a meeting held by the Minister of
Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Ahmed Hanandeh with a number of experts
from the public and private sectors.
ESC head Musa Shteiwi said the ICT
is closely connected with all other sectors, and stressed the importance of
building on previous achievements to keep pace with global developments and
maintain the sector's competitiveness in employing manpower, especially young
people.
The ICT sector faces challenges
related to inflexibility in tendering laws, investment-related difficulties,
and export of information technology services to foreign markets due to instability
in the legislative environment, Shteiwi pointed out.
Hanandeh said the ministry's
infrastructure is "capable of smoothly" conducting digital
transformation processes and using "the best" infrastructure
practices, indicating the importance of providing efficient digital services to
citizens.
The ministry faces challenges,
primarily the complexity of institutional procedures, laws and legislation
related to digital transformation, which it seeks to facilitate and make
faster, and difficulty in updating sectoral data, Hanandeh added.
In an effort to advance its future
plans, the ministry issued a "large" number of laws in the digital
transformation field.
The participants recommended the
need to revisit the ICT regulatory procedures, and highlighted the importance
of training the sector's workers in digital transformation. They also stressed
that Jordan needs to come up with national indicators that would help it follow
up on the development and achievements in the digital transformation field, the
ESC statement said.
The participants said that the
Ministry of Digital Economy and Leadership should engage in outlining the next
cybersecurity strategy, since it is tasked to run the technical aspect of the
sector.
The study recommends that
educational curricula keep pace with local and global markets requirements, and
stressed the need to move toward digitization in developing textbooks for
academic, professional and technical tracks.
The study also highlighted the need
to provide "appropriate frequencies to operate of 5G cellular networks as
soon as possible".
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