Jordanian Public Mobile Network Operator Orange Jordan to fund 'Women on the Frontlines' Conference

The May Chidiac Foundation and Orange Jordan have announced their support for the sixth Middle East and North Africa edition of the "Women on the Frontlines 2023" conference, which will be held under the patronage of Prime Minister Dr. Bishr Al-Khasawneh.

The conference was put on by the non-profit May Chidiac Foundation, which focuses on media, journalism, democracy, and social welfare research and teaching.

Many powerful women from Jordan and the region's diverse industries attended the meeting. The conference this year focused on issues linked to artificial intelligence and women's influence on social media platforms, as well as women's engagement in technical and diplomatic professions.

Philippe Mansour, CEO of Orange Jordan, expressed the company's eagerness to support this event in line with its corporate social responsibility strategy, highlighting the various measures taken to empower women by increasing female representation and highlighting their accomplishments both within the company and in the ICT industry as a whole, along with ongoing efforts to ensure gender equality. Women make up 26.4% of Orange Jordan's workforce and 29.82% of its management positions.

Through the group's "Hello Women" project, Mansour reaffirmed the significance of increasing the participation of women in technical and digital employment. This can be done through training and hiring more women for these positions, as well as by sharing possibilities with female students majoring in tech. He said that over the previous two years, Orange Jordan had a positive influence on the lives of 6000 ladies around the kingdom, referring to them as "the heroes of change."

About Orange Jordan

With the best networks and cutting-edge digital solutions, Orange Jordan is the digital leader in the Kingdom and one of the Orange Global Group's subsidiaries. It offers a wide range of fixed, mobile, internet, data, and Smart Life Solutions, as well as more than 1500 committed employees who work hard to satisfy the needs of the country's approximately 3.7 million customers.

Under the name Orange Business Services (OBS), Orange Jordan provides a broad variety of communication services to both people and enterprises. Transparency, agility, results-orientedness, client centricity, cooperation, caring, and excellence are the company's seven key values.

The Group's "Lead the Future" strategic plan serves as the basis for Orange Jordan's CSR approach. To empower Jordanians and improve digital inclusion, it focuses on four key pillars: digital education, digital inclusion, entrepreneurship, and the environment. This promotes socioeconomic growth. To improve digital inclusion and provide Jordanians more power online, free digital programmes are being launched.

About Orange

With sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 people globally, Orange is a major telecom provider. It operates in 26 countries and has 288 million subscribers globally, including 243 million mobile and 24 million fixed broadband connections. The Group's "Lead the Future" strategy plan, which takes use of network excellence to strengthen Orange's leadership in service quality, was unveiled by the Group in February 2023. Orange is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ORAN and on Euronext Paris under the code ORA.