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digital empowerment is key across all recovery.” These types of partnerships access to education for millions of youth.”
sectors. Youth are our biggest motivators between UNICEF and businesses have said Roula Chehab, Country Manager for
and online learning really counts on them. the potential to make transformative Microsoft Jordan. Jordan has one of the
Knowledge is power and the Learning change for children and youth, based on world’s youngest populations with 63
Passport is a great opportunity for young a shared value approach where producing per cent of the population under 30 years
people to invest in themselves to succeed, social value and addressing challenges of age but close to one third of youth are
gain knowledge and acquire the skills is also good for business. “At Microsoft, unemployed. The situation for girls is even
needed for the labor market.” said Dr. our priority has been to find ways for more challenging, as Jordan has the third
Nael Adwan, Director of Investment and technology to improve people’s lives and lowest female labor force participation rate
Promotion Department, Ministry of Digital bring the promise of technology to those in the world. Since the outbreak, UNICEF
Economy and Entrepreneurship. “The who are most at risk of being left behind and the Ministry of Youth has scaled up
Youth Learning Passport offers a scalable in this era of digital transformation. Our support to young people in Jordan through
and enhanced solution for youth in Jordan focus includes closing the skills gap and meaningful engagement opportunities –
to unleash their potential by developing ensuring that our solutions benefit all youth including volunteering, cultural activities,
the digital and other skills they need for to become tomorrow’s leaders – unlocking learning and training and entrepreneurship.
the future of work,” said Tanya Chapuisat, this potential for all students to learn The Learning Passport started off as a
Representative, UNICEF Jordan. “The through immersive and inclusive learning partnership between UNICEF, Microsoft
platform also provides a critical bridge to experiences. Through our partnership with and the University of Cambridge and its
help hard-to-reach and disadvantaged UNICEF and The University of Cambridge departments Cambridge University Press
youth access learning and training, on The Learning Passport, we are able to and Cambridge Assessment.
ensuring that these young people can be at rapidly provide a locally-relevant, remote
the heart of Jordan’s post-Covid economic learning solution that ensures continuous

Nexign Announces Annual Record 2019 Results

Nexign (part of ICS Holding), a leading (YoY) positions in our target markets in Middle
Business Support System (BSS) and • Revenue from new business, including East and Africa, and we are also expanding
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider international projects, reached $37 to the Southeast Asian market. Meanwhile,
for telecommunications service providers, million, which is 38% more than in 2018 we became a part of ICS Holding, one of
announced its results of 2019 fiscal year • Net profit reached unprecedented $92 the largest IT groups in Russia and CIS,
and published its official Annual Report for million, an increase of 22% over 2018 which enabled us to find new opportunities
2019. “2019 was extremely successful for for development,” said Igor Gorkov, CEO at
Financial Results Nexign, due to substantial growth of new Nexign.
• Nexign delivered $217 million in total business and continuous development of Customers
revenue – 3% growth year-over-year Nexign’s product portfolio. We have strong • In 2019 Nexign continued to develop
a large-scale project for MegaFon.
With Nexign, MegaFon replaced seven
billing systems with a unified BSS
for convergent rating and billing to
maintain high levels of availability and
reliability and handle peak loads from a
76-million subscriber base.
• Nexign implemented the analytical
reporting system for Rostelecom, which
analyses data from inter-operator B2O
(Business-to-Operator) accounts. The
system makes effective use of big data
technology and will enable Rostelecom
to control voice traffic volumes and
monitor the performance of its pricing
policy.

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