In the blink of an eye: how biometric tech is reforming aid work in Jordan

Eyes, ears, fingers and possibly body odors are becoming as important as hearts and lungs for the existence of many humans. Activities...

Tala El Issa • 06 February, 2017

biometric tech Jordan iris scanners

New startups on the block: February

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

Lucy Knight • 31 January, 2017

new startups Jarra Carriage

Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past

Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for...

Tala El Issa • 29 January, 2017

posrocket ifood.jo POS

Jordan marries traditional aid with new innovation

This is a crosspost from Devex - When aid goes digital: 4 factors to bear in mind Technology and innovation are continuing to transform...

Helen Morgan • 25 January, 2017

Jordan Social Entrepreneurship IrisGuard

Content Master: images of the people for the people

Content Master is taking a different tack to other image curators around the world, by being dedicated to serving the Middle East...

Maisa Khudair • 24 January, 2017

the online project Content Master Stock Images

Solar energy for clean water

Have you ever wondered from where astronauts get their drinking water? They reclaim 93 percent of their waste water stored on their space...

Tala El Issa • 11 January, 2017

solar energy clean water drinking water

WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

Wamda • 07 January, 2017

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

When the cold is good for your business

While many of us dread the cold knocking at our doors, some entrepreneurs welcome the winter season with open arms, more than happy to see...

Tala El Issa • 02 January, 2017

Winter Arabia Weather Jordan

Wamda’s best stories of 2016

2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup...

Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2016

Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus

Harnessing the power of Jordan's wind [Q&A]

Solar panel units, satellite dishes and water tanks are no longer the only trademarks of residential rooftops. Two-meter high wind turbines...

Tala El Issa • 25 December, 2016

Taqetna solar Wind

Babil Games acquired for $17M

In what could be the largest exit in the region’s gaming industry, Middle East-based game publisher Babil Games has been...

Lucy Knight • 18 December, 2016

Gaming babil games game development

Jordan’s Ekeif is becoming the Arab world’s Instagram for how-to videos

How do you make ketchup at home? What are some self defense moves to use in case of an attack? Many of these questions will yield...

Tala El Issa • 14 December, 2016

Ekeif Jordan Sima Najjar

Uber and Careem: a yellow cab's worst nightmare in Jordan

“We don’t need Uber or Careem, the yellow cab is the boss,” chanted yellow cab drivers protesting outside Jordan’s...

Tala El Issa • 01 December, 2016

Uber careem Jordan

300 days of sunlight a year: a look at Jordan's solar sector

Jordan’s latest solar energy deal with a UAE company marks the largest power plant to be built on Jordanian soil. The deal, along...

Tala El Issa • 28 November, 2016

solar energy Jordan Solar panels

Health tech in MENA: How do you say measles, mumps and rubella in Arabic?

“Now is the era of systems that learn. It’s like [sending] a child to school. You teach them to read and digest information....

Dana Ballout • 14 November, 2016

ICT MENA Forum Watson big data

Communication key to soothing rocky VC-startup romance

Part of a maturing ecosystem are the growing pains that go along with it. As startups continue to pop up, so do VC funds, but like any...

Dana Ballout • 13 November, 2016

Funding Investment VC

Redesigning Amman's urban culture

When graffiti artist Mike Derderian paints Amman’s walls, he feels the city beneath his fingertips. He is determined to merge his...

Tala El Issa • 27 October, 2016

Amman Design Week amman Design

Children invent to impress at Amman exhibition

Nearly two dozen Jordanian children were creating some very adult ideas over the weekend. The six inventions at the Little...

Tala El Issa • 26 October, 2016

Jordan children Little Innovator Lab

What I know about industrial design: Sahar Madanat

How do single-handed people eat? Is it possible to reduce the six million deaths per year as a result of heart attacks? What drives people...

Tala El Issa • 24 October, 2016

Game of Drones

Sager1, in collaboration with ZAIN Jordan will be conducting the first "Build your own Mini Quad-copter", a 3-day hands-on...

Wamda • 14 October, 2016

Drones Jordan Workshop

Hack&Pitch Amman

Whether you are a bootstrap founder, engineer, software hacker, student, or mentor/ investor interested in mobile...

Wamda • 13 October, 2016

Jordan ZINC hackathon

Home-cooked food gets a taste of delivery services in Jordan

When Marwan Oklah Al Zou'bi and Adam Barghouti were studying indoors during Canada’s harsh winters, ordering homemade food...

Tala El Issa • 13 October, 2016

Jordan Delivery Homecooked meals

GJU Green Hackathon

The Green Hackathon is the third step of the “Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program” at the German...

Wamda • 12 October, 2016

Jordan hackathon green tech

Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion

Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine,...

Tala El Issa • 09 October, 2016

Agriculture Nestrom Yousef Wadi