Jordan
was among the first to float the idea of a free media city in 1999. At that
time, the idea was met with bold and unprecedented dialogue among many
factions, and unfortunately, the idea was terminated and moved to Dubai and
became one of the largest foreign investment attractions, bringing in major
global television networks and different media centers.
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Jordan
was also the first to initiate the concept of electronic government, and the
Kingdom became a haven for many expertise in this field. Many success stories
began to pile on, until all of the human resources began to leaving their
positions at public and private institutions in favor of ones in neighboring
countries, particularly in Arab Gulf countries, which established their
electronic infrastructure and excelled in launching e-services in the majority,
if not all of their public institutions and departments. These countries
started to provide top notch services, while eradicating all corrupt administrative
behavior and arbitrary practices in dealing with citizens and the
private sector.
The local
public administration was a leading example in quality and hard work, but
unfortunately, this has changed in terms of how the public sector employee is
seen from the inside and outside today, as they have become an example of
administrative weakness, deteriorating achievements and bureaucratic
negativity.
Even
in the field of medical tourism, which Jordan was a pioneer, due to investments
in skilled and administrations, as well as the natural resources that only exist
in Jordan, the industry fell back due to negative practices by many sides
against this sector, which was adopted and developed by neighboring countries and
others across the world, establishing medical tourism with minimal
resources.
The
same happened in the health and education sectors on all levels; after leading
the board in this regard regionally, Jordan has since dropped drastically in
ranking.
Jordan
was at the forefront in many initiatives and different development sectors, and
produced many success stories, but the absence of public institutional work that
develops these projects resulted in the immigration of expertise, which
dramatically pushed Jordan to the bottom. This requires policymakers to reevaluate
themselves to figure out the causes of this decline, and work to revive these
sectors by laying out a revolutionary roadmap that puts the human resources at forefront.
We in
Jordan need a new administrative revolution that reignites the spark in the
public sector, and increases its efficiency and creative independent role in
the next period. All countries around us were at the end of the line, vastly
lagging behind
Jordan, but they advanced to the front of the line in
record-breaking time. The lesson
is not in the diagnosis as much as it has to do with political will at the
highest levels to accomplish reformative projects that serves the country.
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