On the Seventeenth of May of Each Year, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Shares the Countries of the World to Celebrate the World Communications and Information Society, and the International Telecommunication Union has chosen this year under the title “Gender Equality in Digital Transformation” In Conjunction with the 160th Anniversary of its Founding, to be opportunity to enhance awareness of the role of equality among all members of societies in accessing information and communications technology and monitoring the pace of the advantages of modern digital technologies in all countries of the world and facing the challenges that are linked to them.
The World Communications and Information Society (WTISD) 2025 highlights the urgent need to improve gender equality in the digital field, so that women and girls in the world can benefit from digital transformation and contribute to it, and perhaps everyone realizes that digital technologies benefit from their rapid impact and increase the frequency of progress in all sectors of the company, but that for many.
The GSMA International Society report (gap between sexes in the field of mobile telephone for the year 2024) indicates that the gender difference in the adoption of the Internet via possession of mobile phones and smartphones in low and average income countries, because the percentage of use by women on the mobile phone on the mobile phone by 15% of men is less. At the regional level, the report has proven that these shortcomings develop in sub -Saharan Africa and South Asia, where more than 60% of women linked to Live Internet.
According to data from the report “Business Women in the Year 2024” published by Grant Thornton, which we are far from reaching parity between men and women in the roles of senior management in the technology sector on the intermediate market.
The report “The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), which provides the global survey on average market business and an in -depth analysis of opinions and expectations of around 15,000 business leaders worldwide that women occupy 32.0% of higher administrative positions in the technology sector, which is lower than the global average of 33.5%.
Perhaps the call for gender equality in digital transformation is perhaps not an option, but rather important for obtaining a complete and sustainable development, because digital empowerment for women is not only beneficial, but also improves the efficiency of societies and economies of states, and for the whole world to achieve this goal Bridging The Gap Towards The Labor Market, Especially in the Technological and Engineering Sectors, and Concerted conducting interventions and efforts at an early age to make more female participate in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics stem and refute the biasses and stereotypes that female face early in their lives, which will inevitably contribute to enhancing their ability to innovate and entrepreneurship And contributes to improving the well-being of families and societies around the world.
Successive Governments in Jordan Confits that the Kingdom considering digital development a top priority for social and Economic Development in it, as the vision of Economic Modernization 2033 Focuses on the importance of (Digitization) in Creating More Jobs and Empowering Women in Various Initiatives Of Vision in Their Multiple Economic Sectors, and Government Agencies, Civil Society Organizations and Private Sector Companies Have Launched Many Initiatives in Order to Enhance Digital Skills for Girls and Women and Increase Their Participation in the Digital Labor Market, which contributes to activating it economically.
When digitization has become a major factor in improving the employment of Jordanian women, we have started to attend a growing demand for new studies and jobs by Jordanian girls in various fields and specialized such as specialties of artificial intelligence, mobile phone applications, financial technology solutions, programming, management of technological projects and computer design partnerships have widened and the economy is delighted, the request for work for women in allowances in allowances in allowances.
The Data of the General Statistics Department / Schedule of Employment and Unmployment During the Years (2017-2021) in the Kingdom Showed A Large Employment Gap in the Telecommunications and Information Technology Sector in General, As the Percentage of World in this sector constituted a small 2 % DURING THE YEARS 2017- 2021, But the percentage of female workers from among the female in this sector compared to the high males during this period, which indicates that there is a continuous approach to women to work in this area, even in a simple way, it clearly emerges from the decrease in the gap between men and women, 60.7% to 49.6% in the years 2017 to 2021.
According to data from the Association of Information and Communications Technology Companies (production) 2024 and the association’s annual statistical statistics; The percentage of women’s participation in the Jordanian labor market reached 33%, 16% of which were the percentage of women in technical positions and 30% of them as institutions and members of the startups teams.
Because we seek to achieve equality between all the groups of the company on the one hand and local companies on the other hand in digital access, we are certain that the projects which have been implemented in recent years and those currently implemented in the kingdom of Hachemite of Jordan will contribute to filling digital efforts in several levels.
Successive Jordanian Governments, through the approval of the legislation that regulates the fair access to various services and to ensure that all ages of age and professional society, persons with disabilities, the elderly and women get equal opportunities to reach digital goverment services, in addition to seeking to reduce the digital gap Between Urban and Rural Areas and Its Residents Through Developing the Necessary Digital Structure and Enhancing the Organization Environment for Communications in It for the Purpose of Integrating All Groups of Society in Accessing Broad Internet Services in all regions and with a reasonable cost.
Jordanian governments have launched several initiatives and strategies aimed at reducing the digital gap, such as the establishment of knowledge stations, the creation of a digital inclusion unit and the publication of the 2025 digital inclusion policy aimed at allowing the groups of the company to access digital government services, to integrate the private sector and to provide digital resources and services for the construction of the Master. exception.
The telecommunications regulatory authority has requested – in recent years – exploit its efforts to overcome obstacles and remove the obstacles facing community members to access various digital services and the possibility of benefiting from modern technologies to facilitate and facilitate business, and has also started to implement leadership initiatives aimed at perpetuating and and strategies of digital communication and plans for the time of Catastrop Visions – such as the vision of economic modernization – through which it has strengthened the importance of digital access for all groups in the company.
Authority has made free frequencies in the Pandemic Kingdom in time, and it looked seriously to accelerate the launch of fifth generation services to improve the concept of the Internet of Objects and help increase the quality of communication services and extend geographic coverage of labor beaches and offer them the possibility of opportunities for creation, innovation, innovation, development of digital services and labor and the possibility of occasions. In addition to the competent authorities to launch digital initiatives in the various areas of labor, such as health, education, transport and other specialized activities, because the supply of a reliable infrastructure will allow all entities and institutions to provide their digital projects to all beneficiaries.
In conclusion, and with the announcement of the selection of the Arab firm for communications and information for the Jordanian capital, “Amman”, like the digital capital of the Arab world, continue to create an infrastructure which includes in its folds modern and developed technologies help to fill the digital gap between local communities and their different categories.
* Chairman of the Council of Commissioners of the Communication Sector Regulations
