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communities and secured the financial inclusion
of women. Developed initially as part of its annual
Goodwill Journey in 2015, the incubators have now
helped over 170 women learn income-generating
skills and achieve economic independence,
empowering them with the potential to join the
Sultanate’s burgeoning entrepreneurial community.
Ooredoo Oman to
start new incubator
programme for women
Ooredoo Oman has announced plans to organise its
2017 incubator programme in Manah following the
success of similar initiatives that have inspired local
Ooredoo’s special incubators are organised in
collaboration with the Omani Women’s Association
to provide women with vocational training
and resources in the disciplines of Information
Technology, beauty, cooking and sewing. By
contributing training courses, funds, donations, inkind contributions and proving essential equipment,
Ooredoo is enabling human growth through
capacity development.
To date the company has organised two
entrepreneurship incubator programmes that saw
significant success in Qurayat and Mussanah, with
more than 100 women graduating, of which 20%
started their own business. The remaining graduates
went on to secure promising careers in Oman’s
private and government sectors.
some concerned organisations,
including ROP, Public Prosecution,
TRA, Omantel and Ooredoo.
The campaign aims to raise
awareness of the negative
consequences of cyber
blackmailing and encourages
victims to report any such incident
to the concerned authorities either
the Oman National CERT at ITA or
other law enforcement entities.
Oman’s ITA to launch cyber
blackmailing campaign
Cyber blackmailing incidents are
increasing and so is the number of its
victims. Therefore, the Information
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Technology Authority (ITA) will
launch a campaign starting Thursday
4th October, in cooperation with
On the importance of the
campaign, Eng. Badr Al Salehi,
Director General of the Oman
CERT, said: “Cyber blackmailing
is not confined to a particular
country, but it is an international
problem. Statistics indicate that
cases of cyber blackmailing
continue to increase and is
affecting everyone. Community
awareness on how to deal with
this problem is necessary to
eliminate it.”
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