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ICT Sector DirectEmployment toReach 35,000 JobsTrainings in Telecommunications<strong>Zain</strong> Jordan has established the first specialized Mobile Maintenance Centre in Jordan.The centre offers free training in mobile maintenance for its students, increasing theiremployability, fostering entrepreneurship and contributing to the ICT job market. Around100 students graduate from the centre each year.<strong>Zain</strong> Jordan has also created The Mobile Telecommunications Lab in Jordan University ofScience and Technology. The centre offers training for hundreds of university and postgraduateengineering students every year enabling students to carry out specializedresearch in the telecommunications field.In addition, <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan partners with ‘LoYAC’, a non-profit organization offering youthdevelopment opportunities while serving the community. We offer 10 paid internshipsthrough ‘LoYAC’ for university students, for a period of six weeks each.Additional programs and initiatives to train young graduates and prepare them for the jobmarket are available in the ‘Activating Youth’ and ‘Investing in Communities’ sections onpages 23 and 34 respectively.Our Contribution to Telecoms in JordanSector RevenuesIn 2010 <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan’s revenues reached 363 million JODaccounting for over 43% of the telecoms’ sector totalrevenues 4 , representing the largest contribution from themobile telecommunications subsector. <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan aims toincrease this figure in 2011 with further investment into newinnovative products and services.Sector EmploymentIn 2010 <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan supported 1,272 direct jobs, a figurewhich includes all those employed by <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan directly,not including its Jordanian subsidiary companies. Thisfigure represents nearly 27% of the total employment by thetelecoms sector in 2010 in Jordan.In addition, it has been estimated that by working with tierone business partners alone, <strong>Zain</strong> Jordan’s operations supportover 37,000 jobs in the Jordanian market. Please see ‘‘OurBusiness Partners’ section page 56 for more details. <strong>Zain</strong>Jordan sees investment in the Jordanian employment marketcentral to ensuring the future prosperity of Jordan and theongoing supply of highly skilled labour.284 Calculations for contribution to telecoms’ sector employment and revenue are based on figures from the‘ICT & ITES Industry Statistics and Yearbook 2010’ published by Int@j and The Ministry of ICT – Jordan

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