Under the Patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in cooperation with the UNDP Amman Country Office and the UNESCO Cairo Regional Office, is organizing a National Conference to launch a national long-range strategy to incorporate Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Jordan on Tuesday, 26 March 2002.
The strategy has been drafted with an aim to further develop the IT sector in Jordanian universities, by establishing partnerships between Jordanian universities and local industries on the one hand and Jordanian universities and leading Western universities and IT industries on the other hand.
In this regard the main objective of the conference is to present the strategy, obtain valuable feedback from participants and suggestions from concerned parties by exploring different avenues for the implementation of the strategy in the country.