Jordan's young, educated and English-speaking workforce is a strong asset, and the country produces over 1,300 computer science graduates per year. "We have more engineers than Singapore, we have more computer science graduates than in Northern Ireland, and it is a cheap labour resource" said Mohammad Halaiqah.

"We are really promoting Jordan as a national IT destination" adds Reem Badran. In effect, JIB has been promoting Jordan as a hub for IT companies seeking to invest in the region. Although the industry is small and fragmented, there is a strong potential in specific IT services, especially for outsourcing contracts which allow foreign companies to contract out the highly skilled, cheap Jordanian labour force. Companies like Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle have already invested in the development of Jordan's IT industry.