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It is a verified professional identity — showing their credentials, their portfolio, their service offerings, and their client ratings in one place. When a business in Dubai or a startup in London sea

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Ostathi Jordan, developed by UniHouse and deployed nationally under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) through the Youth, Technology, and Jobs (YTJ) Project, is providing Jordanian professionals a structured route into the global gig economy. Launched as a platform and pathway rather than a standalone training course, Ostathi pairs an eight-stage UniHouse Workforce & Entrepreneurship Engine™ (WEE) framework with a marketplace where verified profiles—showing credentials, portfolios, service offerings and client ratings—can be discovered and paid internationally via an integrated digital gateway. The Roya News feature on 14 April 2026 highlights the platform’s focus on turning market-relevant digital skills into actual income for Jordanians.

Direct quote

"The question we asked was simple: why do so many trained young Jordanians still not have income? The answer was always the same — training without a pathway. WEE and Ostathi together are that pathway."

Context and details

Ostathi is designed to take participants through a full journey: learning a market-relevant digital skill, earning a digitally verifiable certificate permanently linked to a profile, defining services and pricing, going live on the Ostathi marketplace, and receiving payment directly and securely from international clients. UniHouse describes the underpinning methodology as the WEE framework — an eight-stage framework intended to take people "from outreach all the way to sustainable income," rather than stopping at a training completion certificate.

Services offered on Ostathi include:

  • Digital marketing
  • Graphic design
  • Coding and web development
  • Data analysis
  • UI/UX design
  • Content creation
  • Virtual assistance

Profiles on Ostathi function as a verified professional identity: credentials, portfolios and client ratings are consolidated in one findable page. The platform is backed by Microsoft's cloud and AI infrastructure to ensure availability across Jordan, even in areas with limited connectivity. Payments are processed through Ostathi’s integrated gateway, enabling direct, cross-border transactions without intermediaries.

Ostathi is explicitly aimed at people who have not yet secured stable employment: youth and fresh graduates seeking a structured first step into the digital economy; women seeking flexible, remote-capable income; unemployed and underemployed individuals with skills but no route to market; and aspiring freelancers and entrepreneurs.

Outlook

By deploying Ostathi through MoDEE and the YTJ Project, Jordan is positioning the platform as a replicable model for digital workforce development across the region. UniHouse says the WEE framework is designed for replication across geographies, and the combination of private development with government deployment creates an example other countries can study. For Jordanians interested in joining or organisations seeking to understand the model, the Ostathi Jordan portal (jo.ostathi.com) and UniHouse’s WEE framework article (unihouse.com.jo) provide entry points to the platform and the methodology that powers it.