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Jordan News Agency (Petra) Highlights Ostathi Jordan’s Role in Advancing Digital Skills and Employment
Aug 01, 2026
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A recent feature published by Jordan News Agency (Petra) has recognised Ostathi Jordan’s growing contribution to digital skills development, workforce participation, and economic opportunity across Jordan.
The coverage reflects increasing national attention around Ostathi Jordan’s role in connecting learning with practical pathways to employment, entrepreneurship, freelance work, and income generation.
Developed by UniHouse in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) through the Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project, Ostathi Jordan supports learners, professionals, entrepreneurs, and aspiring freelancers as they develop market-relevant skills and participate more confidently in Jordan’s evolving digital economy.
This recognition represents more than coverage of a single initiative. It reflects a shared vision in which learning leads to opportunity and skills development is connected with meaningful economic participation.
Recognition of a Learn-to-Earn Approach
At Ostathi Jordan, learning is approached as the beginning of a wider economic journey rather than an outcome on its own.
Through its Learn-to-Earn approach, the platform supports individuals in developing practical, market-driven skills that can strengthen employability, encourage entrepreneurship, and enable participation in freelance and digital work.
The recognition from Petra highlights the importance of connecting skills development with the systems and opportunities individuals need to apply those skills in the market.
The platform introduced by the Ministry addresses this challenge by enabling participants to:
- Build market-relevant digital skills
- Create professional profiles
- Access freelance and digital work opportunities
- Connect directly with potential clients
- Deliver services and generate trackable income through the platform
At the centre of this approach is Ostathi Jordan—an integrated platform designed to support the wider journey from learning and professional development to market access, entrepreneurship, and economic participation.
By bringing these stages together, the platform helps reduce the distance between gaining a skill and finding a meaningful opportunity to apply it.
A Structured Pathway, Not Just a Platform
The recognition by Petra reflects the wider value of Ostathi Jordan’s integrated, end-to-end approach.
Powered by the UniHouse Workforce & Entrepreneurship Engine™ (WEE), Ostathi Jordan connects the principal stages of workforce development through one structured journey:
- Outreach and participant onboarding
- Skills training aligned with labor market needs
- Competency-based assessment and certification
- Digital profile creation and professional positioning
- Access to marketplace and client opportunities
- Trackable income generation through completed platform transactions
This structured pathway supports individuals beyond the completion of training. It helps them build professional visibility, demonstrate their competencies, access market opportunities, and take practical steps towards participation in the digital economy.
Built Around Measurable Outcomes
Petra’s recognition also highlights the growing importance of workforce initiatives that can demonstrate what happens beyond training completion.
Through the UniHouse Capacity Development Evaluation Framework (CDEF), participant progress can be monitored across different stages, including skills development, competency assessment, marketplace participation, and income activity.
Paid services completed through Ostathi Jordan can be recorded and tracked, providing verifiable evidence of bookings, completed transactions, and platform-generated income.
This allows workforce development to be assessed not only through the number of people trained, but also through their progression towards practical and measurable economic participation.
Expanding Access to Digital Opportunities
The initiative aims to broaden participation in Jordan's digital economy by creating opportunities for:
- Youth entering the workforce
- Women seeking flexible employment
- Freelancers and independent professionals
- Job seekers
- Entrepreneurs building digital businesses
Participants can offer services across a wide range of high-demand sectors, including:
- Digital marketing
- Programming and software development
- Data analysis
- UI/UX design
- Remote business support services
By removing geographical barriers and enabling remote participation, the platform opens access to clients and opportunities both within Jordan and across international markets.
Technology That Enables Scale
Petra’s coverage also draws attention to the technology supporting Ostathi Jordan’s delivery model. The platform uses Microsoft-supported cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to enable secure, adaptive, and multilingual digital services.
This infrastructure supports:
- Secure and reliable digital services
- Multilingual platform capabilities
- AI-enabled functionality
- The ability to serve growing numbers of participants across Jordan
It also provides a technical foundation that can support the platform’s continued development and potential future expansion.
Recognition of Ostathi Jordan’s Growing National Impact
Jordan News Agency’s recognition of Ostathi Jordan reflects growing awareness of the need to connect education, skills development, and workforce participation through one integrated model.
It also reinforces a central principle behind the platform: learning should lead to opportunity.
By connecting market-driven skills, professional profiles, client access, secure transactions, and trackable income opportunities, Ostathi Jordan supports individuals as they move from developing capabilities to participating more actively in Jordan’s digital economy.
This recognition is not viewed as the conclusion of a single achievement. It reflects the continued development of a platform committed to empowering learners, professionals, entrepreneurs, and aspiring freelancers while contributing to a more inclusive and resilient digital livelihood ecosystem in Jordan.
Learn more about the structured pathway from skills development to economic participation through the Ostathi Economic Model.
Read the full media coverage at Jordan News Agency (Petra).
