Business & Money | Sunday 30 June, 2019 11:54 am |

Deputizing for Crown Prince Al Hussein Ben Abdullah, Prime Minister, Omar Razzaz, launched the Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Development in Mashreq countries, organized by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship in cooperation with The World Bank.

The two-day forum will see participation of partners representing governments and the private sector from Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, as well as CEOs from international and regional businesses and investors.

Digital transformation is a unique opportunity to help the Mashreq economies address many of the social and economic challenges to achieving sustainable economic growth through the digital economy, which constitutes the present and future of global economic activity for its impact on productivity, efficiency, improved governance and transparency.

Addressing the participants, Razzaz said Jordan is proud to host the first digital forum for the Mashreq region and put it on the right track, underlining that the region and Jordan in particular have the added advantage in the transition to the fourth industrial revolution based on human resources, innovation and talent without the need to rely on natural resources.

In the last decade, he noted Jordan has become a pioneer in digital transformation, and we look forward to investing in pioneering talents, adding the government has established 90 communication and leadership centers in all regions of the Kingdom to embrace the pioneers and develop their skills and look forward to investments in this field.