THE HASHEMITE KHNGDOME OF JORDAN
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Science Technology and Innovation
Indicators Jordan - Dos
DOS Experience In Sti Indicator
Presented by : Amjad Magableh
Country : Jordan
Email : Amjad.magableh@hotmail.com
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About DOS
 DOS has right to “collect, classify, store,
analyse and publish official statistics
 DOS has Coordination and technical
authority over the other public bodies
involved in statistical activities.
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Benefit of STI Statistics
Information, Data, Indicators
 Enhance the effort to develop the information society.
 Build STI Data Base.
 Enhancing Decision making Process.
 Improving capacity building in statistics.
 Measure the progress achieved in STI .
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Statues of Sti at DOS
 STI Indicators Comes from family surveys
 Some Family Surveys Questionnaires contains
Few indicators:
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Radio
Television
Computer
Satellite
Mobile
The internet Access
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The future looks very bright for the IT industry in Jordan for
these reasons :
Advanced infrastructure for information technology in all
areas.
an ideal business and sophisticated.
The element of youth and qualified workforce and trained.
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 Flexible government participation and good support after
it has been providing the appropriate atmosphere to
achieve success for local companies and foreign investors.
Excellent financial return, which dates back to the
manufacturer and producer.
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Case . The software industry in Jordan
 It must be pointed out that the great development
witnessed by the world by the communications
revolution and the information contributed to the
development of this industry in Jordan.
 this industry is very large and it become as one of the
most important future industries , it is the basis for the
information and communication revolution in the world
as a whole .
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The challenges facing the St sector in Jordan, "the software
industry"
 The cost investment in the production of programs
"software industry" is big and it is a major investment
 That the production of programs needed for a long time
to transform it from idea to prototype and at last a final
product "program".
 Need a lot of effort , support, maintenance .
 more time and more money.
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Elements that contributed to the promotion of technological
progress and stability in general in Jordan
 1st element - political stability enhance the information
technology sector , Play political stability in Jordan as a
key role in attracting international attention by large IT
companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and Oracle.
 It must be said some of the figures to highlight the rapid
growth of IT industry in Jordan, where the total income
of the Kingdom of the information technology industry
in 2004 to $ 440 million compared with $ 170 million in
2001 and arrived in 2008 to more than $ 900 million.
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 Must be noted that sectors are telecommunications and
technology solutions for banking and e-government
applications, online commerce solutions website has
solutions and multimedia, animation, call centers the
most important investment in Jordan.
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2nd element, the role of technical and administrative
 Software producers had to take the initiative to learn and
practice of production management in a scientific.
 Control engineering and management.
 Provide a practical means of monitoring and accounting
programmers and measuring the rate of production.
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 Selection of tools and techniques appropriate must be
aware of the real needs of the product.
 Criteria for evaluating the performance which represents
a significant qualitative leap for the quality of production
and for the consumer in the end.
 its capacity for expansion, and transmission of the
computer work environment to another .
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 To have a look at the future ability of companies
producing tools for production to continue in the
competition and provide the service.
 Arabization of the software technologies of interest, it
took the attention of the energies of many specialists in
previous years.
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3nd
element : role of government and legislative
 Government's role is essential to advance the software
industry through executive decisions.
 legislation must also encourage innovation to such an
industry and without limits or restrictions.
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 Attention to scientific research in basic research, is not
expected to achieve scientific breakthroughs in
information technology
 the development of work in basic research and
Government to support the long-term projects in the field
of physics, sports, language engineering and artificial
intelligence,
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 Promote Arabization software, that the requirement for
government agencies dealing with the Arab or expressing
software would greatly stimulate the Arab developers
interesting question of Arabization.
 as well as from the fact that the foreign product of
attention, especially in large software systems such as
geographic information systems and aerial surveys and
remote sensing systems.
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 Development of legislation and attention to intellectual
property rights that cover freedom of thought and
opinion.
 several aspects of our lives and any talk of the Arab
software industry is serious and successful
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 Need to focus on the rehabilitation of my information to
professionals, particularly in terms of law schools and the
judiciary.
 the more Governments have understood the importance
of laws that protect the rights and software licenses, the
value of these programs increase, which affects
positively on the one hand and users on the developers of
the programs on the other.
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4rth
element: The Role of Economic and Social Council
 Follow-up to economic and social changes and study the
actual needs of the community.
 We must change the people's economic and social
development.
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 Draws attention to the problems and realistic solutions
 moved to the center of attention and careful
consideration of the alternatives available to carry the
innovative solutions that seek to great successes.
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 Global partnerships, that the companies shared global
experience successfully exercised by India and Brazil
according to national plans studied.
 there are a number of major international companies
willing to cooperate with Arab companies will raise
distinct from the burden of Arabization and needs.
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 will ensure a huge Arab market, and will carry a lot of
work at an acceptable cost In contrast.
 the Jordanian guarantee more friction scientific and
technical, to the Arab market will ensure that programs
reflect the actual needs of making top professionals.
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 Interest in the joint Arab production, this is long overdue
and is expected to achieve Arab cooperation / joint Arab
unforeseen successes .
 as producers can give to the Arabs is the search for nontraditional sources of funding interest.
 open the field of marketing and advertising through the
software .
 the large companies can create a cross market trends in
each Arab country.
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Outlook
 Tax exemptions should be linked to intellectual and
scientific value-added and innovative financing
mechanisms to support the IT industry.
 especially for start-ups and find a fundamental pillar in
the development and meet the challenges of a
competitive market that characterize this industry.
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 Need to create a general atmosphere of a booming
industry and interest in global marketing.
 this falls to the governments and stakeholders in the
situation of scientific and industrial community to
prepare to run in this experiment.
 set an example to the India, which reached its exports of
software and electronics, including more than ten billion
dollars in 2004 is expected to reach 28 billion $ 2010
after that they did not exceed 1.5 billion dollars in 1989.
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 Compliance with the laws of intellectual property
protection contributes to the promotion of software
industry.
 in addition to acquiring the confidence of the major
institutions working in the field of human development
programming need of attention from the education of
Arab children to have access to an integrated strategy for
the acquisition of skills
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The most important indicators of the use of technology in
Jordan
 Most households (86%) have mobile phones, two-thirds
of families have more than one line.
 More than one third of households (36%) have
computers .
 About half of the individuals aged 5 years or more (46%)
use the computer, the majority of whom are the age
group (10-19 years).
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 The percentage of males of age (5 years and over) and
use the computer (56%) compared to (44%) for females.
 Use of PC is for personal purposes (73%) and least for
work purposes (17%).
 two-thirds of households) 64% (they do not have a
computer because of physical ability.
 About half of the individuals who do not use a computer
because of the lack of knowledge of how to use.
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 About (16%) of households have Internet service at
home and have varied the ratio between urban and rural
areas and most Internet users were male.
 Prepaid cards are the most commonly used to connect to
the Internet (68%), and use of the Internet via ADSL in
rural areas is still low (10%) .
 the highest rate of Internet use in the houses were once
daily or at least once a week at least, but not daily (about
37% each).
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 About one third of individuals (35%) of the age (5 years
and over) use the Internet for less than two years.
 The main reason for not using the Internet at home is the
high cost, especially in rural areas.
 The owners of bachelor degree or higher, the highest
percentage of computer users and the Internet.
 occupied homes (53%), schools and universities (47%)
Percentage Top places to use the Internet for individuals
aged 5 years or more.
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 greater use of the Internet is to send and receive e-mail
(58%), and less for the purchase or sale of goods and
services (5%).
 About one person out of every five individuals who use
computers and about two-thirds of Internet users have email.
 About (21%) of individuals (15 years or older) have
information about e-government services.
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 The largest percentage of households (25%) want to use
SMS or surf the Internet via cell phone to take advantage
of e-government services.
 Jordanian private mail delivery service to provide the
salaries of national aid for families.
 About two-thirds of households (67%) use e-Jordan for
the purposes of payment of bills.
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 Average monthly household expenditure on mobile
phones is around (28 KD) and on the phone lines around
(23 dinars).
 Average monthly household expenditure on the Internet
about (16 dinars).
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Suggestion & Recommendation.
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More Awareness.
Activate using STI indicators.
Conduct STI survey
Build comprehensip Data Base.
Improving capacity building, training, technology,
experience
 Cooperation involved agencies.
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The Results
 None specialized survey in STI in Jordan.
 some indictors can picked up from different Surveys.
 General Data collected from Household units.
 Data collected by interviewing.
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Future Of STI
 More Awareness.
 Not enough awareness.
 Activate using STI indicators
 Indicators approval
 Collaborate other agencies
 Carry out STI survey.
 Enhance capacity building, training, technology,
experience
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Collaboration DOS & Ministry of STI
 Memory of Understanding .
 Running special STI survey 2009
 Using STI
o Household Units
o Establishments
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Thank you for your attention
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