Shabakat Al Ordon (NetCorps Jordan)
Shabakat Al Ordon is committed to empowering citizens to meet the demands of emerging economic opportunities in order to improve the overall conditions of their lives. A non-for-profit limited liability company incorporated in Jordan in 2005, its mission is to drive and implement transformational strategies that improve the economic and social well-being of local communities. Shabakat Al Ordon centers its strategies on local youth, who are enabled with technical, professional and facilitation skills in order to empower others, build communities of practice, and incubate initiatives that respond to their community needs through the integration of information and communication technologies in their day-to-day lives.
In 2002, the original NetCorps Jordan program was created as a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MOICT), the Queen Zein Al-Sharaf Institute for Development (ZENID), and the Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT). Formally launched in July 2003 by HM King Abdullah II, the program was incubated within ZENID with the assistance of an extensive network of program partners, including NITC’s Knowledge Stations, Jordan Education Initiative, the Ministry of Education, and the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD). In July 2005, the program was spun-off as an independent national entity with the support of the USAID-funded AMIR program and CISCO Systems.
With the ongoing support of a strong network of stakeholders, Shabakat Al Ordon’s results in the field have demonstrated great potential for the program. Since its inception as a not-for-profit company, Shabakat Al Ordon has empowered 4,117 beneficiaries by incubating 532 life transforming projects through enabling 161 young people including 90 females to provide around 35,995 man days in 142 locations across local communities as of April 2008. Many of these individuals have used their training to start new businesses, obtain employment, enhance the quality of their work in pre-existing jobs, improve their educational outcomes, more effectively run their households, and provide additional training to others in their communities.
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