Orange Jordan has announced a new phase of its Coding Academy programme, timed to coincide with World Youth Skills Day. The initiative is designed to strengthen digital skills among Jordanian youth and expand their access to economic opportunities across the Kingdom.
Partnership With the Crown Prince Foundation
This phase will be delivered in partnership with the Crown Prince Foundation, which will serve as the main driver for youth outreach. The collaboration is expected to ensure nationwide reach across Jordan’s governorates, helping a larger number of young people access broader economic opportunities. Training will take place at Orange Digital Centre locations as well as Crown Prince Foundation offices spread across the governorates.
Scale and Structure of the Programme
The programme will run for three years and will train 370 youth between the ages of 18 and 35, with 100 spots reserved for remote participation. Beyond technical instruction, the curriculum includes specialised sessions on life skills, entrepreneurship, and employment readiness. Technical training will cover web development and artificial intelligence, among other in-demand fields.
The Crown Prince Foundation described digital empowerment and skills development in programming and artificial intelligence as core pillars of its work, noting that such skills have become globally recognised drivers of youth economic participation and labour market competitiveness.
Building on Years of Digital Empowerment Work
This latest phase extends Orange Jordan’s ongoing digital empowerment efforts, which include the Coding Academy programme that has already trained more than 1,200 young men and women, with 80 percent of graduates securing jobs or entrepreneurial opportunities within six months of completing the course.
The Coding Academy itself is not new. It was launched in 2019 in partnership with Simplon.co as the first initiative of its kind in the Middle East, offering free, intensive training in programming languages followed by internship placements with technology companies. Since then, the programme has grown well beyond its original cohort of 50 trainees, expanding into governorates such as Balqa, Zarqa, Aqaba, and Irbid, with local employment rates for graduates reported at 80 to 85 percent depending on the region.
Context Within Orange Jordan’s Wider Digital Strategy
The Coding Academy sits within a broader ecosystem of digital initiatives operated by Orange Jordan, supported in part by the European Union-funded Innovation Space project. That wider effort has helped fund additional Community Digital Centres, FabLabs, business accelerators, and an Innovation Hub based at the Orange Digital Village in Amman, reflecting a long-term push to position digital skills training as a pillar of youth employment policy in the country.
By tying this new phase to World Youth Skills Day and expanding the partnership with the Crown Prince Foundation, Orange Jordan appears to be positioning the Coding Academy as a long-term national programme rather than a standalone corporate social responsibility project, with the scale of the three-year commitment suggesting continued investment in closing Jordan’s digital skills gap.
