Red Hat Presentation at The American University - Jordan
Dated: 27/05/2015Mazadah team, in cooperation with GCE has conducted today 27th. May.2015 an awareness session in the American University in Jordan, which was attended by a number of faculty and students.
The session focused on educating the audience on Linux history, features and structure, as well as Red Hat certification paths and statistics about the number of certified individuals in Jordan in comparison with the region.
Attendance were surprised to know that there are only (7) Red Hat Certified Engineer (holding current status) in all of Jordan, which makes only 2% of certified individuals in all of the Arab world. That makes Jordan hold the 6th place after Egypt (160), Saudi Arabia (44), UAE (30), Tunisia (27) and Morocco (20), where Algeria and Bahrain come at the end of the list of countries that have this certification with only (2) RHCEs. However, many other countries, mostly under conflicts, such as Lebanon, Syria and Yamen, have ZERO. *all figures are as per May.15th.2015
When it comes to Jordan, it is very clear that a lot of work needs to be done to bring it up in the ranking ladder, especially given Jordan’s reputation of being one of the most (if not the most) advanced country in the Arab world in the technology field. That’s in addition to the great opportunity to become one of very few RHCE holders in the region, and to earn a reputable job with a relatively high salary.
