Season 5 of Orange Summer Challenge Kicks Off Under the Theme “AI as a Business Accelerator

The Orange Digital Center announced the kickoff of the fifth edition of the Orange Summer Challenge 2026 (OSC26), under the theme "AI as a Business Accelerator”. This season aims to connect talented youth and startups with real-world challenges and transform creative ideas into tangible projects with a positive impact on society by addressing community needs.

The challenge brings together startups, innovators, college students, and recent graduates in multidisciplinary teams to develop and test smart solutions addressing Orange services, such as Orange Money, Orange Energy, and Max it, with support from Orange Digital Center, company employees, and international partners.

This initiative serves as a key driver of success, as it provides technical and business mentoring as well as access to industry experts and opportunities to strengthen participants’ market presence while deploying and scaling their solutions.

Orange Jordan affirmed that the program reflects its position as a trusted digital partner and comes as part of its efforts to shape the digital landscape in the Kingdom by playing a role in accelerating the development of market-ready technical solutions with meaningful impact and growth potential. This stems from the company's core beliefs, highlighting that true innovation keeps pace with actual market demands. Through this challenge, young talents come together with the company's expertise to create smart solutions that open new horizons for employment, entrepreneurship, and Jordan’s digital transformation.

It is noteworthy that the Orange Summer Challenge is an annual competition that begins at a regional level between teams representing 14 countries in the Middle East and Africa region. The journey starts with a comprehensive three-month training and mentorship program within a supportive ecosystem from the Orange Digital Center, after which three startups from each country qualify to compete on an international level. Winning projects are awarded valuable financial grants to support their business growth, in addition to gaining visibility and benefiting from advanced support by Orange Fabrication Lab.

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About Orange Jordan

Orange Jordan, with around 1,600 employees across nearly 300 shops and locations throughout the Kingdom, strives to provide the best customer experience through an integrated set of digital solutions, including fixed lines, mobile lines, internet, data, and Smart Life Solutions, serving more than 5 million customers in Jordan, guided by the company’s values of Caring, Responsible and Bold.

Orange Jordan is a subsidiary of Orange Global Group, which is present in 26 countries worldwide. The company operates in line with the Group’s strategy and prioritizes community service. In this context, it implements a comprehensive CSR strategy centered on four pillars, including Digital Education, Digital Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, and Climate and Environment.

As a trusted partner, Orange gives everyone the keys to a responsible digital world, which reflects the company’s purpose. Its main driver is its vision to be the true responsible digital leader in Jordan, while continuing its mission of offering the best network and innovative digital solutions, with an unmatched customer experience by empowered Orange teams.

Digital solutions offered by Orange Jordan are comprehensive, serving, in addition to individual customers, businesses and companies through a range of enterprise and corporate sector solutions under its sub-brand, Orange Business.

To learn more, please visit our website: www.orange.jo.

About Orange Group

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with 40.3 billion euros in revenues in 2024 and 124,100 employees worldwide by 30th September 2025, including 68,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 310 million customers worldwide as of 30th September 2025, including 270 million mobile customers and 23 million fixed broadband customers. These figures account for the deconsolidation of certain activities in Spain following the creation of MASORANGE. The Group is present in 26 countries (including non-consolidated countries). 

Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.

Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA).

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