ISSN 2348-1196 (print) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research ISSN 2348-120X (online) Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp: (29-40), Month: January - March 2021, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
The Role of Malaysian University-of-theFuture in Reducing Poverty and Unemployment Rate for the Vulnerable Youth in Jordan through International Community Engagement and Digital Entrepreneurship Education Programme Waleed Asender1, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan2 1,2
Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology
1,2
International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Authors Emails: 1walidov@gmail.com, 2arad@iium.edu.my
Abstract: Jordan is suffering from high youth unemployment rates, knowing that Jordan has one of the youngest populations in the world this will exacerbates the already difficult socio-economic situation, being amidst a politically disturbed region caused floods of refugees that swept the country to compound the employment issues. COVID-19 pandemic has only made the situation worse, overall, this increases the poverty level. The Jordanian government is no more capable of meeting the yearly employment demands, the private sector and interested global organizations has to contribute towards creating employment opportunities. The education sector is involved with this complication, many fresh graduates are not ready for work sector, they lack professional skills and self-development mentality. This paper is following the design thinking approach to develop a business model using Business Model Canvas (BMC) and Value Proposition Canvas (VPC) for a conceptual project that adopts the idea of the University of the Future (UotF) provided by International Univerity of Malaysian IIUM by utilizing both international community engagement and digital entrepreneurship education, with a main endeavor of reducing poverty and unemployment rate for the vulnerable youth of Jordan. Keywords: Jordan, No Poverty, Quality Education, Employment Opportunity, SDGs, University-of-the-Future, International Community Engagement, Digital Entrepreneurship Education, BMC, VPC, Digital Platform, Vulnerable Youth, Wellbeing.
I. INTRODUCTION Every nation in the globe shares the same challenges and aims to achieve common goals in various aspects of their people‟s lives, these goals have been depicted in the United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreement in 2015, which is a global agenda adopted by all United Nations members to be achieved by the year 2030 and could be the most optimistic and crucial international agreement in modern history. These goals are interrelated in a way that provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future [1]. The ultimate goal for any nation is to improve the wellbeing of their people, all other sustainable goals works in synergies towards this main goal, however, education occupies major space in the government‟s plans and policies. Education development have a tremendous influence over the economic thrive of the country which will lead eventually to solve most of the challenges in harmony with the 17 SDGs agenda, therefor, improving the education sector should be at the
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