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governorates and the needed digital skills has succeeded in achieving a remarkable of different sectors, this is reflected by the
in the labor market and the entrepreneurial impact on the lives of the beneficiaries company's various programs, including
sector. Mentioned the importance of and their communities, and it is committed Orange Coding Academy and the startup
empowering youth and providing them to supporting youth in Jordan across the Accelerator Program (BIG).
with the necessary tools to play an Kingdom to contribute to the advancement
effective role economically and socially.
CEO of Orange Jordan, Thierry Marigny,
expressed his appreciation for partnering
with the Ministry in order to offer youth
required digital skills in labor market or
develop entrepreneurial projects that
support the socio-economic development,
pointing out that Orange is making use
of its digital and technical resources in
implementing these programs as part of
its CSR, and based on its role as a leading
and responsible digital provider and the
Kingdom's digital partner. Marigny added
that the company intends to expand
Orange Community Digital Centers after it

stc Kuwait Forms Strategic Partnership with
Tecnotree

Kuwait Telecommunications Company engagements globally will underpin the Upon completion, the multi-phased
- stc, a world-class digital leader program. As stc’s partner on this journey, transformation project will upgrade stc’s
providing innovative services and Tecnotree brings unique capabilities current systems to state-of-the-art IT
platforms to customers enabling to the project via its Digital BSS Suite architecture and processes that will allow
the digital transformation in Kuwait, 5 products, including Tecnotree Surge, delivery of seamless and personalized
announced a strategic partnership with an award-winning Digital Accelerator omnichannel customer experiences
Tecnotree to deliver stc’s Enterprise Platform that publishes TM Forum via leveraging intelligent insights. This
Digitalization Program (EDP). The digital certified APIs. The two companies will use will enable stc to become a full digital
transformation project will provide stc’s these tools together to help stc transition ICT player and system integrator, whilst
enterprise customers with a seamless and to a digital service provider of the future, also expanding its services & solutions
personalized omnichannel experience. In enabling it to compete in the new digital beyond mobility. Commenting on the
its statement, stc mentioned that the three- telecom paradigm. On this occasion, strategic partnership, Tecnotree CEO,
year partnership supports the Company’s engineer Fahad Abdulrahman Al Ali, Chief Padma Ravichander, said, “The Telecom
vision to become a world-class digital Technology Officer at stc, expressed industry today stands at the cusp of digital
leader in innovative telecom services and his happiness in forming the strategic transformation where digitalization has
platforms across the region. The step partnership, which serves as an additional become a core necessity to compete and
forward will contribute to enhancing the step taken by the Company to widen survive. We are delighted that our Digital
customer experience through innovative its offerings, range of innovative digital BSS Suite 5 has been selected by stc, as
solutions, facilitating business processes solutions, and build the infrastructure of they embark on a digital transformation
efficiently and expediting customer service its 5G network. He added, “Upgrading our journey to become a digital leader. We
responses across the various channels digital services will provide our customers are confident that our vast experience in
used by the Company. The EDP aims to with enhanced connectivity solutions, driving digital transformation and superior
transform stc’s legacy BSS infrastructure thereby accelerating the deployment of deployment capabilities for telecom
with an open ecosystem composed of smart applications and promoting digital service providers globally will augment
multi-speed digital architecture, enabling transformation. This initiative builds stc’s capabilities allowing them to emerge
the company to rapidly deploy new on stc’s commitment to continuously as leaders in the digitally connected
capability models and integrate both offer its enterprise customers with less ecosystem. Through this partnership, we
partner and third-party digital channels restricted solutions that accelerate digital will deliver visible results that will set new
into a single framework. Tecnotree’s vast transformation with an aim to increase industry standards and benchmarks.”
experience in driving digital transformation productivity and operational efficiency.”

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