Jordan’s tech-driven path to growth

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Bytes of Ingenuity

Siren Analytics

5 episodes

9 months ago

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Jordan’s tech-driven path to growth

Bytes of Ingenuity

47 minutes 41 seconds

12 months ago

Jordan’s tech-driven path to growth

For this episode, host Nick Newsom is in Jordan - a country recognised as a global GovTech leader, and whose monarch, King Abdallah II, has ambitions to turn it into a regional hub for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Amjad Swais, chair of the trade body representing Jordan’s tech sector, Intaj, tells us how the government is using tech in its efforts to counter high youth unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and significant pressure on public services.

Episode overview

02:40 - Jordan's digital infrastructure

06:34 - IT outsourcing in Jordan

09:25 - Moving toward exporting tech

12:38 - Incentivising R&D

17:19 - Making education serve labour market needs

20:43 - Overview of GovTech in Jordan

24:27 - The private sector's role in service re-engineering and digitisation

26:50 - Improving government IT service procurement

32:42 - Strengthening product management in government digital transformation

35:19 - Overcoming resistance to change

38:24 - Government AI readiness