Orange Jordan launches eighth season of Business Innovation Growth programme

Orange Jordan launches eighth season of Business Innovation Growth programme

AMMAN “” Orange Jordan has launched the eighth season of Business Innovation Growth "BIG“ programme, which is aimed at accelerating the growth of startups in Jordan.

Launched via the video conferencing platform Zoom and was also live-streamed on Orange Jordan Facebook page, the event was mainly attended by Orange Jordan CEO Thierry Marigny, members of the BIG steering committee and representatives of media.

During the event, Marigny pointed out that "this season we mark a milestone in the progress of BIG by Orange“, as this season was launched from BIG by Orange Digital Village, which includes the company's sustainable programmes for youth and entrepreneurship, in addition to the company's collaboration with Changelabs, an organisation providing innovation and entrepreneurship programmes that help to launch startups.

Those programmes include the programming academy and the Orange gaming hub, Marigny said.

"Supporting entrepreneurship is among the priorities of Orange Jordan,“ according to Marigny who pointed out to the aspirations of Jordanian youth and their innovation capacity.

BIG, which was launched back in 2015, is considered one of the leading startup accelerator programmes in Jordan, that gears towards supporting five to six startups each season, in addition to making sure they achieve sustainable development.

This season, the participating startups include: BOB,