In the name of God
The companionate, The merciful
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Information Technology Deputy
Information Technology
Strategic Plan of Islamic
Republic of Iran
Project of writing the IT master plan of Iran
(Project Code: ITMP-40812001-01-3-1)
Project executor: Abdolmajid Riazi, MS
The steering committee for writing IT Strategic Plan
Ali Mobini, PhD
Abdolmajid Riazi, MSc
Ali Naseri, PhD
Samad Mo'men-bel'lah, PhD
Seyed Ali Akramifar, MSc
Reza Ghaderi, PhD
Seyyed Habibul'lah Tabatabayian,PhD
Abolfazl Kazazi, PhD
Hossein Talebi, MSc
Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini, PhD
Hami Amini, MSc
Leila Beig, MSc
Atefeh Ghavamifar, MSc
Behnam Valizadeh, MSc
Translated by: Nasrin Mahmoodi Barmasi, MA
Edited by: Leila Beig, MSc
Preface
The human's life has been promoted from the mass
production to the information and communications era
and also the evolutional movement of the world's
countries towards the information and knowledge-based
societies has affected all their economical, cultural, industrial, political
and social processes and activities.
The structural framework of this era includes the production,
process, transferring, and information and communication
management. We need them to establish the bases of the personal,
organizational and national knowledge and wisdom. Therefore
information technology which contains the used technologies of the
mentioned processes is introduced as the essential and effective
element.
The growth of general knowledge and awareness and the overall
development of changes at the national communities and the universal
environment have extended speedily and intensively. The process of
universal development has transcended the industrial age and now is
arriving to the post-industrial era, information society, knowledge
management, universalization of communications, and information
explosion. Information Technology has found the applicable aspects
in all the social, economical, cultural and managerial systems, and is
the pioneer in the development of the technology-based services and
systems at the virtual and non-virtual environments.
This new and general technology is considered as the effective and
significant factor in improving the life level, public welfare, loyalty
and social justice. It increases the speed of economical and social
growth in advanced societies. The developing countries showed the
positive approach towards the application of this technology in
different dimensions, but the information and knowledge gaps
between these societies and developed countries are increasing.
At the present time, information not only is one of the basic
resources and assets of organizations, but also is considered as the
means and tools for the effective management of the other
organizational resources and assets (financial resource, human forces,
etc), therefore has the specific importance and value. But this value is
realizable, just when the information can be achieved at the
appropriate time, with the desired quality and acceptable security and
by establishing the desirable communications. In this way,
Information Technology which is the base of transferring, movement,
and using the effective management of information finds the great
importance. Then in the direction of vision 2025 of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, and to realize the developed society, associated with
cultural circumstances, and relying on the moral principles and
Islamic values, for preserving the Iranian-Islamic identity from one
side, and the deep influence of the Information Communication
Technology on the different dimensions of human life and especially
its essential and precise role at the cultural, economical, security,
social and political aspects from the other side, and after the expert
surveys and through an agreement which was signed by the 'ICT
ministry' and 'the management and planning organization', the ICT
ministry proposed the country's master plan of Information
Technology to 'the management and planning organization'.
This agreement includes five basic projects; writing the IT master
plan, writing the executive program for specifying the ministry duties
at the security domain (AFTA), establishing the database for IT status,
writing the framework for IT applications at the country and preparing
and writing the first draft for legal bills and regulations which each of
them includes different subsections.
The study of the universal rank of the countries conveys that the
national management coordination, preparing the soft and hard
infrastructures, determining the basic priorities and organizing the
executive programs appropriately by strategic documents formats
which were acted by the legal competent authorities are the key
factors in developing these technologies. That is so because these
documents could move the activities of the different governmental and
nongovernmental,
administrative,
executive,
educational,
technological, industrial, judicial, civil departments at the same
direction. The Islamic Republic of Iran which planned and ratified the
vision 2025 at the national level, and Islamic Iran's leader requests all
the people of the nation for the execution of it needs to write the
strategic documents at the IT domain in order to prepare the essential
context for reaching the society to the first scientific and economical
position at the region speedily.
On the basis of the defined duties of the country's high Council of
IT and the exchanged-agreement with the previous 'management and
planning organization', the writing of the master plan Country's IT was
on agenda and the scientific strategic committee which included the
experts with knowledge and experience in the field of strategic
management and IT was formed to write it.
The several activities were performed in the field of ICT (1999 –
2007), including: "IT strategic policies for third program (Informatics
High Council – 1999)", "National ICT agenda – TAKFA (Inform
High Council – 2002)", "The strategic document of ICT development
(Iran Telecommunications Research Center – 2002)", "ICT national
plan and its framework (Iran Telecommunications Research Center –
2005)", "The security of exchanging information at cyberspace
document – AFTA (AFTA High Council – 2005)", "National strategic
statement of IT development (Technology Cooperation Office –
2005)", " Studies of e-commerce – MTA (the Ministry of Commerce 2005)", " the first draft of IT Master Plan (Technology Cooperation
Office – 2007)", "The first National ICT Agenda – No. 2 (Inform
High Council – 2005)". By studying the mentioned activities, this
committee formed 9 technical-specialized working groups, including
"Surveying the present situation of IT at Iran and the world",
"Surveying the strategic documents of 10 selected countries of the
world", "Surveying the IT trends at the world", "Surveying the future
IT scenarios at the world", "Surveying the IT management master plan
at Iran and the world", "Conducting the opinion poll and surveying the
experts, professors and active managers ideas at the university domain
and governmental and private sections", "Surveying the models and
processes of providing the strategic document", "Surveying all IT
studies done at ICT ministry, and also at Iran Telecommunications
Research Center, Presidency Technology Cooperation Office, and
TAKFA plan in Iran", "The process of meeting management and
integrating the negotiation outputs".
These working-groups attempted to determine the scientific,
technical, and research needs, and also presented them at the weekly
regular sessions. At the light of these planned attempts and by the
guide of team's leaders and conducting expert opinion poll based on
planning the management network and surveying at university,
industry, and different departments of country, this project achieved
its anticipated results during six months.
The strategic committee with 1200 hours work and during 30
common session and 10 coordinating sessions between working
groups, and also the working groups with 21000 hours specialized
activity provided the first draft of Information Technology Strategic
Plan. This draft includes 7 strategic domains, 29 strategies and 133
alternatives.
At November 9, 2007, this document was presented at the strategic
commission of IT High Council and was approved by members.
Finally at December 25th, 2007, it was passed by the Government
Cabinet.
It is hope that based on the aforementioned document and at the
second phase of the IT master plan; the actions, the approaches, the
related authorities and the indexes of development as the operational
document of the IT strategic plan will be written and approved and by
its exact execution, development of IT at the country will develop fast
in a systematic way and approach the goals of vision 2025 of Islamic
Republic of Iran.
Abdolmajid Riazi
IT Deputy of ICT Ministry of I.R.Iran
Table of Contents
1.Introduction
2.The universal scenarios and processes in IT domain
2.1.The scenarios in IT domain
2.2.The Universal Processes in IT Domain
Convergence and integration of technologies
Raising the qualities (capacities)
Decrease in the costs
Decreasing the dimensions or downsizing
Networking
Making intelligence
3.The structure of IT strategic document
3.1.The core values statement
3.2.The Vision Statement
3.3.Mission statement
3.4.Strategic values
A. "The domain of Iranian-Islamic citizens"
A.1. Definition and recognition
A.2. Goals
A.3. Strategic variations
A.4. Strategies
A.5. Strategies and Alternatives
B. The domain of human resources
B.1. Definition and recognition
B.2. Goals
B.3. Strategic Variations
B.4. Strategies
B.5. Strategies and Alternatives
C. The domain of research and development
C.2. Goals
C.3. Strategic Orientations
C.4. Strategies
C.5. Strategies and alternatives
D. The Domain of IT Industry
D.1. Definition and recognition
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D.3. Strategic variations
D.4. Strategies
D.5. Strategies and Alternatives
E. The Domain of Business
E.1. Definition and recognition
E.2. Goal
E.3. Strategic Variations
E.4. Strategies
E.5. Strategies and Alternatives
F. The domain of Government
F.1. Definition and recognition
F.2. Goal
F.3. Strategic Variations
F.4. Strategies
F.5. Strategies and Alternatives
G. The Domain of Regional and International Interactions
G.1. Definition and recognition
G.2. Goals
G.3. Strategic Variations
G.4. Strategies
G.5. Strategies and Alternatives
3.5. Indexes and quantitative goals
3.6. Keywords
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1. Introduction
By approving and notifying the 20-year vision document (2025) of the
Islamic Republic of Iran which has pictured the future of Iran, the
intelligent and managing maturity of the elites of the Islamic society
was emerged. It means that the young, dynamic, and talent society and
intelligent and wise mangers of the country perceive the national and
universal transformations and attempt to pass rapidly the transaction
period of the national development and raise the quality of Iranian
society to a developed one. This national strategy is designed and
executed under circumstances that the development management
approach based on the vision is a knowledge-based model.
Iran is a developed country which has the first rank in
economics, science, and technology at the region, with the
Islamic and revolutionary identity, that plays an inspiring role
in Islamic-world and interacts positively and effectively in the
international relations.1
The information society formation by extensive and comprehensive
utilization of IT in all social, cultural, political and economical
systems of the country is the basic required infrastructure for
knowledge-based models and using the advanced knowledge. This
technology develops through two sections: Industrial and technical
development and extending its usage at different sectional and suprasectional domains such as education, health, research, commerce,
industry, public services (administrative, banking, insurance,
judiciary, tourism, etc.), so that, this technology is called technology
of transforming society and economics.
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The universal paradigm shift from industrial age to globalization age
of communications and explosion of information, which is called postindustrial age, causes to form information society and knowledgebased economy and knowledge management. From this point of view,
the information society is a society in which people generally use the
inexpensive technology of producing, storing, transferring and
processing digital data. This generalization accompanies with
organizational, scientific, technical, commercial, social and legal
innovation and makes the thorough transformations in human's life.
From macro view, information society is evaluated by enriched
criteria in technological, economical, social, political and cultural
domains. These indexes and features are introduced elaborately in
following.
Technological criterion
One of the most outstanding features of information society is the
comprehensive usage of modern technologies like advanced
technology of integrated circuits (super computers and memories),
advanced telecommunications equipments, expert systems,
information system based on technical knowledge and digital libraries.
In the other words, the information society is based on an
infrastructure which includes technologies of production, storing,
processing and exchanging the information and as the transformation
path moves forward, by transformations, these technologies become
deeper. Therefore, one way to achieve this modern society is the
application of the related technologies.
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Economic criterion
Another important feature of information society is the economic
value of information. Information not only improves the performance
of different economical sections, but also converts itself to the form of
the goods with economical values and production, storing,
transmitting and processing of information lead to economic value
added. Information causes that the related activities such as
production, storing, transmitting and processing data change to the
economical value. Whatever the proportion of increased value added
of information to economical value of other activities grows; more
information quality is attached to the society.
Social criterion
The quality of forming the strong and weak, predominant and
subordinate stratum in information society is considerable. The
difference between information society and its antecedents is the fact
that the information values dominate the material, racial values and in
the economy of such a society, information assets and technical
knowledge take advantage over physical assets. In the other words,
availability of more volume of valuable information is the ranking
criteria of different social classes and stratum.
Political criterion
In the information society, power centralization, political penetration
and social transformations are due to information application, and this
matter is an obvious reason of the advantages and benefits of creation
of an information pole. Consequently, it causes that the society or
societies be divided into two groups, one including inactive and
exclusively consumers and the other including a small number of elite
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communities, the high rank people of the countries and active
producers of electronic information.
Cultural criterion
Unlike what seems at the first glance, and what happens in the
information society at the culture domain, not only is the emerge of a
new developed culture which follows the basic transformation and
shift in the method of life in the world-wide, but also it includes the
expansion of interaction range and wide confrontation of different
cultures. Because of the economical, social and political values of
information in the society, this interaction among cultures can lead to
the domination of cultures which emphasize more on the use of
information and being rash and plain in exchanging different
information especially centralized exchanging of information in the
social, political, economical, and cultural contexts. In other words,
information supports the cultures which propagate and guarantee the
free and high-speed flow of information and its higher place.
2. The universal scenarios and processes in IT domain
2.1. The scenarios in IT domain
The recognition of the universal processes of IT development helps
the policy-makers, designers, managers and decision-makers to
perceive the realities of the world and gain enough and necessary
knowledge from different fields of technology and to evaluate the
current universal and effective approaches from two views of
management and technology.
From the universal top management view, the first scenario is the
scenario of "universal domination" which is operated by the
management of dominant powers of world based on globalization in
different dimensions of economy, politics and culture. The designers
of this scenario conceive IT as the most important tool for realization
of the goals. This scenario confronted with the opposition of the
world's countries and caused them to adopt the stopping decisions in
IT domain.
The second scenario is the "jumping" one. Regarding to the
increasing gap between developed or industrial countries and
developing countries, the competition between the developed
countries, "North", and the developing countries, "South", intensified.
After emerging IT, a group of south countries decreased this gap by
using this opportunity and improved their development index rapidly.
Hence, this scenario is idiomatically called "jumping".
The third scenario is the scenario of "social responding". By
development of communication and emergence of different political
attitude, the people's expectations in the poor and rich societies were
increased and the comparison between developing and developed
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societies was formed. This issue pointed to the legitimacy and safety
of governments which play a significant role in economical, social and
cultural domains of these societies. Therefore, the governments
attempt to pay attention to the social needs and to increase the level of
public prosperity. Hence, some of the wise governments of the world
properly use IT to cover these social requests.
The fourth scenario is the scenario of "universal market" which
targets the global economic field. The main actors of this scenario are
multinational companies which are dependent on the advanced
countries, they greatly enjoyed the development of technology,
extension of markets, and product diversity, and they also manage the
economical competition and global market. Some of the developing
countries enjoy the opportunities of this scenario, too.
2.2. The Universal Processes in IT Domain
Regarding the technological transformations, different approaches and
innovations have been considered which will be explained below.
* Convergence and integration of technologies
One of the important technological approaches is their integration and
convergence. The process of IT development is so that the various
kinds of technologies of this domain come towards each others. In the
past time, the different domains such as media, telecommunication
and computer were considered as different fields but by passing the
time and during the past years, they came together and developed each
other.
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* Raising the qualities (capacities)
Another feature of IT development process is the increasing of
capacities. For example, it can refer to the increase in the processing
speed increasing which based on the Moore Law every 18 months it
doubles. Also, the increases in memory capacities and of exchange
speed of networks are the other considerable issues.
* Decrease in the costs
The other considerable features in IT development are the decreasing
of costs and prices parallel to increasing in quality and capacity. In
the other domains, increasing in quality and capacity usually follows
the increase in price, but in IT domain its reverse happens. The prices
fall because of enlarging the markets and decreasing the primary
costs. Also IT changes lead to the reducing the hardware components
dependence and extending the application of softwares. This approach
has been caused the necessary flexibility for raising the quality and
falling the prices.
* Decreasing the dimensions or downsizing
The next approach of IT development is downsizing or decreasing
dimensions. As you can see in different products of IT like computer,
mobile sets, the global variation tends to downsizing. This variation is
considerable because the increasing in the usability and capacity
usually requires the increasing in dimensions as well, but in IT domain
due to high-speed changes in technology variations (processors,
memories and communication networks) in direction of downsizing,
the case is reversed.
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* Networking
Development of communications and computer networks creates the
new conditions for networking the services, applications and users. By
passing the time, the new data networks, services and people are
established based on the computer network, under the different titles
of weblog, social networks, e-commerce networks, multimedia
information networks, news network. For consolidation of this
approach, the extensive works are done at the infrastructure levels. For
example, we can refer to the new generation of telecommunication
network and grid computing network.
* Making intelligence
This approach refers to the making intelligent applications and
softwares to increase the welfare. It is considerable to mention the
building different kinds of intelligent robots, designing and producing
different kinds of intelligent softwares for goals such as machine
translation, planning, predicting, and expert systems. The importance
of this approach is so that some of the authorities predicted:" The next
IT revolution will be based on this intelligent approach and will
happen during the 21 century."
By brief study of these scenarios and the related IT processes, it can
be found that IT is necessary for actively selecting an approach which
can decrease the gap between IT of the country and developed
societies. Especially for achieving the ideals and values of
Constitutional Law and for protecting the national identity we should
work hard to realize the goals of Vision 2025 and to consider the
general policies of information and communication networks of the
country and security of network space and exchange of information.
On this basis, the approach, of providing the IT strategic document of
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country will be: "to create a high-speed flow to fill the gap between
country's IT and industrial countries by developing and deepening the
national knowledge-based model and to achieve the proper share of
services and IT products from global markets and to fulfill the social
needs of dynamic and transformed society of Islamic Iran", we call it
the scenario of "national enabling" to "promote the competitive
industrial and technological powers at the universal field and satisfy
the national needs at IT domain."
This approach considers the responsibility and activity of all
members of the society and government and will thoroughly stop the
universal domination scenario which uses the universal achievements
of jumping scenario and taking the social responsibility. Therefore,
the selection of long-term priorities in technological industry of
country and target markets, formulating the proper strategy for
selecting the technology, and increasing the level of its capability is
the national necessity for all the colleagues of institutions,
organizations, companies and real and legal identities at the
governmental and non-governmental sectors.
3. The structure of IT strategic document
The structure of this document includes the following parts which are
formulated based on the presented reference model - Figure no. 1.
- Core value statement
- Vision statement
- Mission statement
- Strategic domains of IT
- Goals
- Strategic variations
- Strategies
- Alternatives to fulfill the strategies of each domain
- Quantitative indexes and goals
First, the core value statement, vision statement and mission
statement will be explained; afterwards seven strategic domains of IT
with goals, variations, strategies and alternatives will be introduced.
At the end, the keywords of this document will be presented.
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3.1. The core values statement
The basic values, based on the Constitutional Law ideals, the national
vision document and the general policies of country's IT which are
used extensively and thoroughly for development and evolution of
society and IT future, include:
Protecting the human's generosity, supporting the legal
freedom and ethical principals of person and society
Extending the social justice and clear informing
Providing and guarantee the political, economical, and
cultural security for individuals and the society and
Reinforcing the Iranian-Islamic identity and developing
Persian language in cyberspace
Realization of the knowledge-base society based on social
asset
Reinforcing and institutionalizing the religious democratic
model
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3.2. The Vision Statement
The future desired picture of IT in the country, regarding the ideals,
wishes and society needs in direction of the 20-year Vision document,
is:
IT is a pioneer agent in the knowledge-based national
development, the core values creator, the provider of secure and
equal opportunities for all Iranians, the former of knowledge
management and intelligent network society based on IranianIslamic identity and it is the developed IT hub in the region
towards the achievement of the goals of vision 2025.
3.3. Mission statement
In order to realize the goals of 20-year Vision of the country, to
achieve the first scientific, technological and economical place at the
region and to establish the knowledge-based and wisdom-oriented
society for developing IT management at the national level, the
mission statement is drawn, by focusing on the policy-making and
organizing the system of national IT innovation, as follows:
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3.4. Strategic values
Providing all members of society the proper possibility to
access IT, comprehensive IT education of the society, training
the expert human resources to use IT in all dimensions of life,
creating the competitive creative environment for organizing
the networked and intelligent society which cause the shift in
model and the process of national development from resourcebased to knowledge-based, and training the responsible citizens
to gain the values, in order to remove the digital national gap
with universal society.
Strategic domains study the basic realms which have a central role
in the promotion of country rank in IT. By focusing on the significant
domain of IT, selecting the basic priorities of country regarding to
mission and vision statements, supplying the future and present needs
of society, and by considering the combination of these four
approaches:
- opportunity-based (the goals of IT vision)
- performance-oriented (the system of national innovations of IT)
- subject-based (the comparative study of selected countries of
world)
- needs analysis and problem-based (pathology of country's IT)
are determined in seven domains:
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"Society and citizens", "the qualified development of human
resources", "the government and public management-method and
presenting the needed and up-to-date services of society",
"investigation and research and innovation in IT", "development of IT
industry" and "businesses based on IT", and " the quality and method
of the national and supranational environment interaction with
universal internet networks, countries, agencies, and markets."
In fact, in this space and realm, the strategic priorities, strategic
goals, strategies, and alternatives are determined and defined by
focusing on these domains (Figure no. 2). At the next part of this
document these domains are introduced one by one and their goals,
strategies, and presented alternatives in each of these domains are
discussed.
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A. "The domain of IranianIslamic citizens"
A.1. Definition and recognition
The citizens refer to persons who are responsible, respondent and
active. The assistant citizens who have effective role in national
development process are not inactive and static. By IT application in
all dimensions of life (social, economical and cultural) the great
changes will appear in the methods of living, work and activity. The
capability of citizens in the processing, storing, exchanging,
production and using data and knowledge is of great importance. The
qualified, skillful, motivated, respondent and innovator persons can
undertake great duties in promoting the quality of social and
individual life of a society. These kinds of citizens can be active in the
universal market and exchange the wealth and knowledge regardless
of the geographical, physical, and in economical limitations in the
shortest time and in every place, and be effective in diversified
economy and increasing the competitive power. These societies are
placed at the highest rank and have the ability to attract knowledge
and talent from different parts of world.
A.2. Goals
By using IT, the religious democratic society is realized. This is
done, in order to facilitate and achieve the social justice,
promoting the living quality and the growth of ethical and
scientific excellence of citizens.
The social participation and protecting the religious democracy by
using IT cause to improve the education, role playing and
responsibility of society more and more and enable all members of
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society to transmit the information actively, to take part in sharing
knowledge, and participate in the social activities by using different
scientific, technical, social and economical networks. In this way, the
veterans, disabled ones and physical handicapped can appear more
easily in the society and the voluntary activities and the other social
activities will be done with more ease and extent.
A.3. Strategic variations
The strategic variations in this domain are emphasized on protecting
the identity in cyberspace, developing it and propagating the IranianIslamic culture and taking the notice to the dynamic components of
nationally directing to affect the region and world. By running these
strategies and using ICT, during an active approach, it presents action
plans, Islamic rich scientific, philosophical and thinking resources,
and social and ethical beliefs to the contemporary world. To access to
the information society at the national and regional level, there is a
need to provide the equal, justified, secure information opportunities
for all the citizens. Without considering the time and place and by
using different information tools the members of society can freely
communicate with their family, friends and colleagues in different
parts of country and world by voice, picture, video-conference and so
on.
A.4. Strategies
A.4.1. Developing Persian language and propagating the IranianIslamic culture in the cyberspace.
A.4.2. Creating the equal, justified and secure opportunities in IT
domain for all citizens.
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A.4.3. Raising the general knowledge and digital literacy of society /
transforming the society by raising the general knowledge and
digital literacy.
A.4.4. Securing the society, family and individuals to utilize
electronic services.
Strategy
Alternative
A.4.1. Developing Persian language, and propagating
the Iranian-Islamic culture in the cyberspace.
A.5. Strategies and Alternatives
A.4.1.1.Expansion of Persian language in the
cyberspace.
A.4.1.2.Standardization and protection of the
development of Persian language in scientific
and application softwares and supporting them.
A.4.1.3.Formulating the policies and supportive
programs for Persian language in the imported
system and application softwares.
A.4.1.4.Planning and policy-making to propagate
Iranian-Islamic culture in cyberspace.
A.4.1.5.Developing and strengthening the centers of
producing the electronic cultural content based
on the different cultures of the country.
A.4.1.6.Taking the necessary countermeasures against
the threats to Iranian-Islamic culture in the
cyberspace.
Strategy
Alternative
A.4.2. Creating the equal, justified and
secure opportunities in IT domain for all
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A.4.2.1.Extension of secure, stable, simple and
inexpensive communication networks for the
public use.
A.4.2.2.Creating the correct, fast, and punctual
information system for the public.
A.4.2.3.Protection of the citizen rights in cyberspace.
A.4.3. Raising the general knowledge and
digital literacy of society / upgrading the
society by raising the general knowledge and
digital literacy.
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A.4.3.1.Encouraging all members of society to learn
the information literacy.
A.4.3.2.Providing the facilities in public places [for
citizens] to benefit from cyberspace.
A.4.3.3.Teaching the citizens how to utilize IT.
A.4.3.4.Raising the knowledge and skills of all
citizens to benefit from IT advantages in their
life.
A.4.3.5.Strengthening the process of instructing IT to
the adults.
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Alternative
A.4.4. Securing the society, family and
individuals to utilize electronic services.
The domain of IranianIslamic citizens
A.4.4.1.Enacting necessary laws for protecting
security of society, family and individuals.
A.4.4.2.Designing and using the secure and protective
mechanisms to maintain the security of society,
family and individuals in cyberspace.
A.4.4.3.Teaching the citizens to observe the safety
aspects in the cyberspace.
A.4.4.4.Using widely the encryption and encoding for
protection of citizen's rights.
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B. "The domain of human resources"
B.1. Definition and recognition
The realm of this domain includes the teaching and training of the
required forces for instructing the usage of IT in producing
knowledge, tools, management of communication and information
networks and also the management of data, information and
knowledge in all dimensions of the social, individual, organizational
and national life. One of the basic pivots in this strategic domain is the
training of experts for researching and investigation in the engineering
and higher education and teaching the skills to the work-force in IT
industry. Also, in this domain, it can be important for the designers
and policy-makers to retain the specialists and experts, to avoid the
immigration of educated and skillful forces, to attract elites and
professors from the other communities. Generally, this domain
focuses on the merging the development of human resources with ICT
industry.
B.2. Goals
Promoting the level of required knowledge and skills for IT and
developing human resources to achieve the knowledge-based
society.
This goal emphasizes on the promoting the knowledge of human
resource at different levels of official, occupational, and
comprehensive education or pays attention to the learning, regardless
of the geographical, physical and economical limitations. Also it
studies the instructions at home, institute, and working environment
and creating the new educational opportunities and evaluating IT
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processes at the country. For realization of this goal, determining the
qualitative and quantitative standards of training, the human resources
and knowledge management has a significant role.
B.3. Strategic Variations
Strategic Variations point to the training and optimizing the
specialized and professional human resources, organizing the
specialized occupations, and needs analysis to provide the future
forces of this industry. It targets the technical, engineering and
professional systems and reconfiguration of educational fields and
intelligent schools and national and supranational educational
networks in order to train the researchers, experts, engineers, trainers
and skillful forces move toward the universal standards level.
B.4. Strategies
B.4.1. Needs analysis and planning for development of the human
resources in IT domain.
B.4.2. Organizing the occupations and developing the guilds,
scientific and engineering associations in IT domain.
B.4.3. Training and optimizing the specialized and professional
human resources in IT domain.
The domain of human resources
B.4.1. Needs analysis and planning for
development of the human resources in
IT domain.
Alternative
B.4.1.1.Estimating the future required human
resources for different IT domains.
B.4.1.2.Extending the educational places and
facilities, and organizing the capabilities of
country to provide and promote the scientific
and professional level of human resources in IT
domain.
B.4.2. Organizing the occupations and
developing the guilds, scientific and
engineering association in IT domain.
B.5. Strategies and Alternatives
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B.4.2.1.Rationalization of the required IT jobs and
classification of them.
B.4.2.2.Providing the suitable foundation for
extending the scientific council and guild
associations in different domains of IT.
B.4.2.3.Formation of IT engineering disciplinary
organization.
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B.4.3. Training and optimizing the specialized and
professional human resources in IT domain.
Strategy
Alternative
B.4.3.1. Reconfiguration of the academic educational
and researching fields based on the modern
standards, regarding to the needs of
development of IT in the country.
B.4.3.2. Development of the educational capacities of
technical and professional fields which are
required for the programs of extending IT
accompany with effective organizing resources
and facilities of country.
B.4.3.3. Enabling the students to enjoy IT in all
general educational levels according to the
current standards of world.
B.4.3.4. Reinforcement of the mind creativity, mental
power and rational thought for innovating in IT
domains.
B.4.3.5. Encouragement of the technical experts and
researchers to discover the new boundaries of
IT and enhancing the quality and quantity of
related educators.
B.4.3.6. Facilitating the formal educations based on IT
in small and large primary schools, guidance
school, and high schools by establishing the
internet and intelligent network at schools.
B.4.3.7. Reinforcement of the interaction between
Iranian schools together and also their
interactions with the schools outside the
country to train the human resources at world
level.
B.4.3.8. Being assured of improving the quality and
quantity of information literacy of public at the
high-speed growth rate.
B.4.3.9. Reinforcement of the educational system
based on IT in the large and small high schools
and colleges.
C. "The domain of research and development"
C.1. Definition and recognition
The development of management and technology are considered as
the excellent capabilities of a society. Creativity, innovation and IT
incidents are the hidden wealth, because of the human talents and
software powers of the Islamic-Iranian young and dynamic society,
and can produce, pile up, transfer, attain and spread knowledge,
technology and innovation towards the development of the Iranian
new developed knowledge-based society to a universal level. Other
advantages of the information societies, which extensively use IT, are
the development of the knowledge complexes, innovative parks and
entrepreneurship centers and sharing knowledge and transforming
tacit knowledge to explicit and encoded one.
C.2. Goals
Attaining the Information Technovation system at the superior
level of region, and continuous and proper increasing of the
research and development shares from out of Gross National
Product.
Since the establishment of the national innovative system is
founded on the extensive usage of IT, this goal is based on the
knowledge-base model and is going to reach the first scientific and
technological place at the region. By using these technologies, the
knowledge-network, knowledge-management, knowledge exchange
and performing shared research projects among universities,
researching teams and scientific and technological chairs of
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universities inside and outside the country will be facilitated, and the
knowledge boundaries of different parts of the world have opened into
the researchers. Therefore, potentially there are many preparations for
establishing the information technovation systems and reaching to the
first place, by considering the communication infrastructure and
human advantages and proper universal marketing for Iranian-Islamic
society.
In this domain, the strategic variations examine the cultural
identity of research and study, and completing the policy-making
layers, financing, and making effective the IT domain. It emphasizes
to change the applied researches and development so that they become
demand-oriented and mission-oriented. Establishing the connection
between research and development centers and national laboratories
and universities which are expert in the basic researches, in and out of
country have become major concern of this domain.
C.3. Strategic Orientations
The variation which is important in this domain is the establishment of
the risky financial institutions, to support the innovation and research
in IT domain, and it follows the encouragement and persuasion of
outstanding scientists and modeling them for the youth and elite.
Another orientation for formulating these strategies is the
concentration on the scientific and research poles and centers of new
services, research and development. The other strategic variations of
this domain includes, supporting the researchers and technicalengineering companies, the cooperation between science and
technology supplier and consumer institutions of and
commercialization of the ideas changeable to the product. This
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domain also pointed to the improvement and output of investment in
the domain of science and technology, and motivating the small
knowledge-based agencies, and retaining the elite and to prevent their
immigration.
C.4. Strategies
C.4.1. Strengthening the culture and spirit of research and
development of IT, regarding to the protection of the
investigators and researchers' rights.
C.4.2. Developing institutes, centers, and scientific, technical and
engineering departments of modern services of IT research
and devolvement in the country.
C.4.3. Encouraging, exhorting and supporting the demand-oriented
researches in IT domain.
C.4.4. Developing the research and innovation networks at the
national level and make an effective connection between
national and international research and innovation networks.
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Strategy
Alternative
C.4.1. Strengthening the culture and spirit of research and development of IT,
regarding to the protection of the investigators and researchers' rights.
C.5. Strategies and alternatives
C.4.1.1. Creating and strengthening the risky financial
institutions in IT domain to support the
investigators and researchers.
C.4.1.2. Encouraging the investigators and introducing
national outstanding researchers and supporting,
their research activities effectively and
thoroughly.
C.4.1.3. Formulating the model, enacting the laws and
creating the supportive system for investigators
and researchers' rights in IT domain.
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Alternative
C.4.2. Developing institutes, centers, and scientific, technical and
engineering departments of modern services of IT research and
devolvement in the country.
The domain of research and development
C.4.2.1. Policy-making and planning to specify the
research priorities in IT domains.
C.4.2.2. Developing and strengthening the scientific
poles and futurology, applied and research and
development centers in IT domain.
C.4.2.3. Creating and extending the investigation and
technological institutes, consultation, technical
designing and construction engineering,
marketing and sales and IT innovations
departments.
C.4.2.4. The establishment of the research and
innovation centers by contribution of private
and cooperative research institutes in IT
domain and supporting them.
C.4.2.5. Creating and strengthening the science and
technology complexes and parks and the
incubators centers in IT domain.
C.4.2.6. Creating motivation and necessary stimuli to
make the small knowledge-based agencies.
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Strategy
Alternative
C.4.3. Encouraging, exhorting and supporting
the demand-oriented researches in IT domain.
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C.4.3.1.Supporting the commercialization of the research
and development results in IT domain.
C.4.3.2.Providing the demand-formation context to
actuate the research and development in
prioritized domains.
C.4.3.3.Creating multi-sided system for cooperation
among
knowledge-production
institutes,
industrial and government agencies based on
demand.
C.4.3.4.Pathology and removing the current hindrance of
marketing, production and exportation of IT
products.
C.4.3.5.Improving the output of the investment in
science and IT domain.
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C.4.4. Developing the research and innovation networks at the national level and make an
effective connection between national and international research and innovation networks.
The domain of research and development
C.4.4.1. Establishing the institutional regulations of for
the
knowledge
networks
of
national
organizations, institutes, centers and IT
departments and development of effective
relationship with the universal, scientific and
technical centers in order to increase the national
knowledge level.
C.4.4.2. Standardization of the research and development
activities to raise the quality of IT products and
services in order to present at the international
and regional fields.
C.4.4.3. Active participation in the international research
and development communities to gain the
qualified promotion in research and innovation
in the country.
C.4.4.4.Consolidation and implementation of the
entrepreneurship
culture,
innovation
management and risk management in the
country.
C.4.4.5.The continuous studying, surveying and
monitoring and attaining the information about
the IT innovation in IT at the international level.
C.4.4.6.Designing and implementing the research and
technology projects to determine the priorities
and needs.
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D. "The Domain of IT Industry"
D.1. Definition and recognition
IT industry considers the preparation of the soft and hard
infrastructure for production of the software packages and hardware
equipment. It utilizes IT to create the employment opportunities in
industry and services and also it cares about creating the capable
environment for strong and stable growth of this industry.
It recommends using IT for developing the other national
productive industries regarding this industry as a modern pioneer
industry. Cluster organization of the active people in IT domain in the
country and utilization of the powers and skills of native human forces
in order to create value in this field can increase Iran's global
marketing share of this industry. By Encouraging the companies,
regardless of their sizes, and by fully using IT, will make them to have
commercial exchanges with the customers at the national and
international levels.
D.2. Goals
Achieving the predominant industry of IT in order to gain the
main shares of the regional market and to satisfy the need of
country by active presence at the international arena.
Currently, this industry is young in the world and its future markets
are going to develop. Its necessary infrastructures are ready in the
country. The educated human forces who are able to produce the new
software products and services and to present applied services at the
world level are trained. At the growing universal markets, Iran has
few shares, and applying this technology, in all social, economical and
cultural systems, will create the strategic opportunity for Iranian
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society, which by using it punctually, can improve the social,
economical and communication capacities of country's infrastructure.
D.3. Strategic variations
The approach of this domain, increasing the industrial power of
country in IT domain as a pioneer in the national development, is
focused on the raising the share of supranational markets and it is
possible by increasing the competitive ability and consolidating the
nongovernmental department in the country, supporting the industrial
professions and scientific ,technical, industrial and social networks,
removing the monopolies and relying on the key worthiness of Iranian
society in forming the pioneer industry of IT as an strategic domain.
In this domain, some of the general variations, which are brought
fourth, are: the promotion of the quality of products, enacting the
facilitating laws, giving priorities to the world and regional market's
share, giving the primacy to satisfy the country needs and active
presence in the international field.
D.4. Strategies
D.4.1. Acquiring the proper share of the universal goods marketing
and IT services.
D.4.2. Creating the competitive business environment for producers of
goods and services in IT domain.
D.4.3. Economical and technical organizing of the pioneer industries
of IT in the country with the network and clustering approach.
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Strategy
Alternative
D.4.1. Acquiring the proper share of the universal
goods marketing and IT services.
D.5. Strategies and Alternatives
D.4.1.1. Selection of the target market in order to
export IT products and services.
D.4.1.2. Political and economical maintenance and
support of goods and services production
and supply in IT domain.
D.4.1.3. Promotion of the quality of IT goods and
services for competitive exporting of them.
D.4.1.4. Enacting laws and regulations to facilitate
the export of IT products and services.
D.4.1.5. Laying the foundation for production of the
common products and services among the
national, regional and international
agencies.
D.4.1.6. Attraction of the direct native and foreign
investment in IT domain.
D.4.1.7. Creating the funds and risky investment
agencies in order to help the innovative
ideas in IT.
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D.4.3. Economical and technical
organizing of the pioneer industries of
IT in the country with the network
and clustering approach.
D.4.2. Creating the competitive business space for
producers of goods and services in IT domain.
Strategy
Alternative
D.4.2.1.Creating the standardization system and
evaluating the quality of IT goods and
services.
D.4.2.2. Holding the conferences and exhibitions
and supporting the producers of goods and
services financially and spiritually.
D.4.2.3. Establishing the proper consistency,
stability and security for economical
activities in IT domain.
D.4.2.4. Denying the monopoly and rente in order
to create equal and proper opportunities
along with clarification of information for
the active economic people in IT industry.
D.4.2.5.Utilization of IT in all companies
regardless of their sizes, in order to develop
commercial exchanges with customer at the
world and country (extending the market)
D.4.3.1. Policy-making, planning and enacting the
proper laws to support the security of
investment in IT industry.
D.4.3.2.Development and consolidation of the
companies and centers of producing IT
products by the network and clustering
approach.
D.4.3.3.Using IT as an enabler to develop industries
in the other economical and social
domains.
D.4.3.4. Strengthening the connections between the
small and medium-sized agencies in the
value chain of IT industry and application.
E. "The Domain of Business"
E.1. Definition and recognition
The range of this domain includes all the economical, social, cultural,
tourism, scientific, educational, medical activities and so on. The
application of IT in the other social and economical sections facilitates
the presentation of services, decreases the production costs,
technology distribute, e-commerce development and the general
traffic rate decrease and energy consumption and living environment
pollution which can call them under the title of "making the business
information-based".
This domain emphasized on the e-banking, e-government, ebusiness,
e-commerce,
e-education,
knowledge-management,
entrepreneurship, and forming the virtual companies and euniversities. It includes the intelligent-home, agile organizations and
tele-working and home-working and networking of the business
activities which can call "making the business knowledge-based".
E.2. Goal
Promoting the national productivity level and enjoying the
supranational opportunities which are accompanied with making
the economical active people agile based on IT, in order to gain
the first place in the region economy.
Application of IT as an enabler for making agile, flexible and
developing the communication, information and electronic networks
and connecting the working office networks together, creates the
specific conditions without considering age and gender, and people
can live in their favorite place without needing to the physical
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transportation methods and in this way the costs decrease and the
national productivity promotes.
In the production and distribution activities and in the economical
sections, utilizing the networks saves the energy and thus decreases
the pressure on the environment and causes the agility of the work
force and promotes the quality of management and flexibility in the
organization at the complicated and uncertain environmental
conditions and in this way will find stability and consistency. The
other goal, in this new domain and post-industrial era, is to create the
business opportunities for the young and educated societies. Therefore
the Islamic Iran can be pioneer in the region.
E.3. Strategic Variations
Strengthening the entrepreneurship, increasing the profit, monitoring,
and re-engineering the organizational, industrial, servicing and
production processes by the extensive application of IT are some goals
of this domain. As the development of the e-business has the priority
in this domain, the development of competitive activities and
extending clarified information system will be the proper possibilities
for the national entrepreneurs. The development of the infrastructures
and the increasing needs of society provide the possibilities for new
investment in these activities.
E.4. Strategies
E.4.1. Entrepreneurship by using IT and creating the proper space for
competitive business in order to gain proper share of world's
marketing.
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E.4.2. Increasing the productivity by the use of IT in producing goods
and services.
E.4.3. Making the business process agile by use of IT.
E.4.4. clarifying and causing the society to trust the e-business.
Strategy
Alternative
E.4.1. Entrepreneurship by using IT and creating the
proper environment for competitive business in order
to gain proper share of world's marketing.
E.5. Strategies and Alternatives
E.4.1.1.Laying
the
effective
foundation
for
development of business, presentation of
products and services at the national and
international levels by using IT.
E.4.1.2. Entrepreneurship in e-business domains by
development of IT infrastructures.
E.4.1.3. Development of clusters and business networks
by using IT.
E.4.1.4. Development and connecting the society to the
network of office-works, to choose the person's
occupation regardless of the age and gender.
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E.4.3. Making the business
process agile by use of IT.
E.4.2. Increasing the productivity by use of IT in producing
goods and services.
Strategy
Alternative
E.4.2.1. Development of IT usage in production and
service departments.
E.4.2.2. Using IT to clarify the information system of
goods and services production.
E.4.2.3. Laying the proper foundation by using IT in
order to promote the level of national and
partial productivity.
E.4.2.4. Trying to develop the economical and teleworking networks and activities in order to
decrease the consumption of energy sources,
traffic and pressure on the environmental
sources.
E.4.2.5. The usage of IT to increase the speed of
valuable and massive exchanges.
E.4.2.6. Forming the compound markets of "businessto-business" and "business-to-customer" in the
national and foreign dimensions.
E. 4.2.7. Strengthening the private sections by using IT
in marketing and development of borderless
markets.
E.4.3.1.Monitoring and organizing the business
processes based on integrated usage of IT.
E.4.3.2.Organizational architecture based on IT in order
to make the business agile.
E.4.3.3. Making the connection between IT department
and the other economical departments of
society.
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E.4.4. clarifying and causing the
society to trust to the e-business.
The Domain of Business
E.4.4.1.Creating the integrated financial, banking,
customs, commercial, trading and transporting
systems and of e-commerce.
E.4.4.2. Creating the insurance system for e-commerce.
E.4.4.3.Creating the system of certification authority
and trusted e-authentication.
E.4.4.4.Gaining the information continuously from
market and technological processes.
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F. "The domain of Government"
F.1. Definition and recognition
The range of Government activities in IT field relates to the ruling
priorities in the field of public services, legislation, policy-making,
architecture of governmental organizations and developing the
software and hardware infrastructure. It also includes the development
of the knowledge-management by utilizing IT and establishing the
security in the cyber-space for exchanging the information of the
country.
Another considerable pivot in this domain is the development of egovernment, the establishment of national innovative system and
creating the main communication infrastructure networks. This
domain also includes the re-monitoring of government in the working
processes and re-engineering of organizations and structures and
increasing the information literacy of government workers and
decreasing the time and cost of services for the citizens. Government
not only is not exploiter, but also sets the foundation, supports,
coordinates, supervises IT in the healthy competitive frameworks and
creates the opportunities for all people of the society to access it.
F.2. Goal
Preparing the secure and safe (soft and hard) infrastructures and
the institutional regulations at the universal standard level in
order to achieve the e-government and the realization of the
knowledge-based society.
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Achieving the knowledge-based society is one of the basic goals of
government and in this way government can fulfill the public
satisfaction and promote the level of country development. Providing
the hardware infrastructures by the cheap, trusted, and safe high-speed
broadband is another goal of this domain. Also in this domain, they
consider transformation in the official system and decreasing the
social bureaucracy. The other goal of government is increasing the
general knowledge and establishing national integrated management
which is fitted to the internal and external exigencies of cyberspace
and developing the method of correct usage of IT.
F.3. Strategic Variations
The basic strategic variation of this domain is based on the separation
between the ruling duties and occupy the position in IT. The other
strategic variations include the increasing demand for forming the
information society and knowledge-based society harmonized with the
goals of vision document 2025. The improvement of organizational
structure of government and transformation in the current structure of
government and forming the e-government fit to the social conditions
and IT capabilities are also expected in this domain. One of its major
strategic variation is the national transformation management based on
IT application.
F.4. Strategies
F.4.1. Managing the official transformation of country based on IT.
F.4.2. Institutionalization of the high knowledge and information
management in governmental organizations.
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F.4.3. Formulating rules for developing and facilitating IT which leads
to the comprehensive productivity of society.
F.4.4. Standardizing and integrating information and communication
systems in the country.
F.4.5. Establishing the national innovative IT system in the country by
efficient and effective institutional regulations.
F.4.6. Establishing the security system of information exchange in the
cyberspace of the country.
F.4.7. Creating the main, safe and secure communication
infrastructure networks for the cheap access of the public.
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Strategy
Alternative
F.4.1. Managing the official transformation of country based on IT.
F.5. Strategies and Alternatives
F.4.1.1. the use of IT in modification of administrative
system (Executive, Juridical, and Legislative)
of country fit to the exigencies of cyberspace
and development of paperless systems.
F.4.1.2.Formulating
executive
programs
and
designing the evaluation system by determining
the indexes of IT usage in order to realize the
goals of vision 2025 of country.
F.4.1.3.Increasing the information literacy of
government workers to realize the egovernment.
F.4.1.4.Designing the government and organizational
structure of information society (intraorganization, between organizations and supraorganizations) by electronic communications.
F.4.1.5.Availability of the general management
information for all people at home and work.
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Alternative
F.4.2. Institutionalization of the high knowledge and information
management in governmental organizations.
The Domain of Government
F.4.2.1.Promoting the place of IT management in
administrative
departments
(Executive,
Judicial, and Legislative).
F.4.2.2.Creating and developing the knowledge
management system at the organizational level
in order to joint knowledge, skills and
experiences of government workers.
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Strategy
Alternative
F.4.3. Formulating rules for developing and facilitating IT which
leads to the comprehensive productivity of society.
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F.4.3.1.Modification and enacting the laws to
facilitate and speed up the development and
usage of IT fit to controlling power of market.
F.4.3.2.Formulating the required standards of IT
domain.
F.4.3.3.Developing the quality of correct management
of radio frequency and distributing it equally.
F.4.3.4. Extension of the outsource of information and
communication activities to the private section.
Strategy
Alternative
F.4.4.Standardizing and integrating
information and communication
systems in the country.
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F.4.4.1.Integrating and standardizing the systems,
public and specialized softwares and national
databases for the best interaction and usage of
information resources.
F.4.4.2. Formulating and up-dating the standards of IT
domain and supervising its correct execution.
F.4.4.3. Developing and comprehensive usage of free
and open-source softwares.
F.4.5. Establishing the national innovative
IT system in the country by efficient and
effective institutional regulations.
The Domain of Government
F.4.5.1.Preparing the institutional mapping of the
active organizations of country in IT domain.
F.4.5.2.Creating the evaluation system for application
of the institutional regulations of the innovative
system.
F.4.5.3.Regulation of duties, coordinating the
communications and directing the performance
relationships between components of IT
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Strategy
Alternative
F.4.6. Establishing the security system of information
exchange in the cyberspace of the country.
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F.4.6.1.Establishing the management and steering
system of securing the exchanging information
spaces.
F.4.6.2. Standardization of the products and security
mechanics of IT domain.
F.4.6.3.Developing and strengthening the native
industry of IT security.
F.4.6.4.Creating the system of prevention and
confrontation different threats in the IT
domain.
F.4.6.5.Safe and secure facility for effective and highspeed networks.
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F.4.7. Creating the main, safe and secure communication
infrastructure networks for the cheap access of public.
The Domain of Government
F.4.7.1.creating the main integrated communication
networks of IT at the country level.
F.4.7.2.Creating the national internet network for
qualified, safe and stable access for every
person at every time and place in the country.
F.4.7.3.Creating the national integrated ICT
management network.
F.4.7.4.Developing and strengthening the required
communication infrastructure software for
realizing the integration accompany with
security and its stability.
F.4.7.5.Promotion and improvement of legal and
supervising environment and guaranteeing the
security of network for users.
F.4.7.6.Encouraging, persuading and supporting in
order to harmonic and comprehensive
development of ICT infrastructure at the
whole parts of country.
F.4.7.7.Strengthening and developing of the vital
databases centers to realize the information
society.
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G. "The Domain of Regional and International Interactions"
G.1. Definition and recognition
This domain includes the facts about the connection of national
communication and information networks with the regional countries
and the world, and the genius presence in the regional and
international communities and institutions, and the development of the
business markets beyond the national boarders, and also comprises the
e-commerce, industrial, and scientific and engineering cooperation.
It consists of cultural exchange in the virtual space and its
management methods in order to maintain the goals and values. It
includes concentration on the target markets, identification of
competitors and continuous monitoring of world markets and
transferring knowledge and execution of the common scientific,
technical and economical projects.
G.2. Goals
Improvement and development of the regional and international
communications at different IT domains.
This goal needs to develop the multi-dimensional communications
in different economical, political, social and cultural dimensions. As
IT hub in the region, it needs to connect and consolidate the
communications of the country with the other countries. For using the
advantages of electronic commerce, health, education, tourism,
banking, and insurance, it is required to develop the hardware and
software (legal and scientific) connections. Also due to increasing the
portion of IT products and services in the markets, there is need to the
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continuous presence in the world by using the advantage of this
industry.
G.3. Strategic Variations
The strategies of this domain rely on the creative presence in regional
communities and institutions; its priority is to choose the target
markets, getting the experiences and knowledge from the other
pioneer countries. The national enabling, to achieve the competitive
power for gaining the markets shares by developing the common
economical, commercial cooperation with other countries have the
significant role. According to the globalization process, fitting the
national laws and standards with the international ones is another
important issue for choosing and selecting these strategies.
G.4. Strategies
G.4.1. Developing the cooperation and interaction with the countries
of the world in IT domain.
G.4.2. Active and creative presence at the regional and international
communities and institutions to protect the national rights,
values and interests.
G.4.3. Presenting the services and products in IT domain.
G.4.4. Communicating with investigative and scientific communities
to exchange the knowledge and technology.
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G.5. Strategies and Alternatives
G.4.1. Developing the cooperation and interaction with
countries of the world in IT domain.
Strategy
Alternative
G.4.1.1. The establishment of the common scientific,
technical,
economical,
and
commercial
institutions and the execution of the regional and
international security plan.
G.4.1.2. The connection of communication network of
the country to its neighbors in order to exchange
and transfer the information and to establish the
international communications.
G.4.1.3. Attracting and employing the foreign talented
persons and companies, for the high-speed
development of IT activities in the country.
G.4.1.4.Try to attain the education systems and
networks of pioneer countries in IT industry.
G.4.1.5. The establishment of global agencies at the
country for IT in order to realize the idea of being
the hub of regional IT services.
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G.4.2. Active and creative presence at the regional and
international communities and institutions to protect the
national rights, values and interests.
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Alternative
G.4.2.1.Using the regional and international experiences
for development of IT
G.4.2.2.Active presence at the regional and international
organizations and communities in relation to IT
domain.
G.4.2.3.Using the facilities and equipments of regional
and international organizations for technological
and scientific development in IT domain.
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G.4.3. Presenting the services and
products in IT domain.
Alternative
G.4.3.1. Raising the competitive quality and capability
of IT products of country at the frameworks of
international standards.
G.4.3.2. Providing the foundation for regional and
international economical and commercial
cooperation.
G.4.3.3.Assigning the agencies and embassies to
cooperate in marketing of products in IT domain.
G.4.3.4.Execution of the common projects with the
regional and international companies and
organizations.
G.4.3.5.Connecting the small, medium and large
agencies by the help of global agencies.
G.4.4. Communicating with investigative and
scientific communities to exchange the
knowledge and technology.
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G.4.4.1. Establishing the international, scientific and
research communities to promote the scientific
level and transferring IT knowledge to the
country.
G.4.4.2.Cooperation
with
scientific-research
communities and centers and the execution of
common projects.
G.4.4.3.Supporting the effective presence of Iranian
experts at the scientific and research
communities.
G.4.4.4.The establishment of virtual universities in
common with regional and international
countries.
G.4.4.5.Providing the IT communication infrastructure
to connect the national scientific networks to the
regional and international network.
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3.5. Indexes and quantitative goals
It is obvious that, after approving the general variations of this document
(value, vision, and mission statement), strategic domains, goals and
strategies of each domain, it is necessary to determine the responsible
departments for each of these domains, and prepare the evaluation indexes
and quantitative goals of vision document of IT during six months and to
meet the approval of Iran's IT high Council. This process will be supervised
by staged strategy of 5-year programs of IT development of country to
realize the vision document. The annual continuous evaluation of execution
performance of the departments will be formed based on it.
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3.6 Keywords
1. Strategic values
The values show the future picture of a country. The values are
strategic which have direct connection with necessary, primary and
secondary interest of the society and include the basic and belief
doctrines of the society and as guidance principles for all have built-in
and pivotal value and importance.
2. Vision statement
The Vision statement is a picture of country situation, when it reaches
to its goals and strategies. This statement regulates so that the strategic
challenges and the determined quality goals of the document, have a
significant and direct relationship with each others, and equalize the
future and present needs of society as a harmony between society and
future picture in expressing the words and sentences. For writing the
document the ideal, achievable, valued sacred and institutionalized
words and sentences should be used.
3. Mission statement
The mission statement visualizes the basic goals of a country, but the
vision show the picture of a country after achieving the goals.
4. Strategic Domains
The strategic domain investigates the basic realms which have the
pivot roles in promotion of country's place in IT.
5. Strategy
The strategy shows how a country moves to realize the determined
mission and goals.
6. Alternatives
Alternatives are the setting of choices to achieve a strategy.
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7. IT
IT is a collection of digital technologies which is utilized for
producing, exchanging, storing, processing, propagating and showing
the data and information.
8. Electronic government
The Electronic Government, commonly known as e-Government,
refers to a government which use ICT for facilitating and clarifying
the interactions which are done sectional (different parts of
government) and supra-sectional (citizens and agencies), for
presenting the justified services and creating the equal opportunities
for all the people of a society
9. Electronic health
The Electronic Health, commonly known as e-Health, refers to the use
of ICT in the health and medical activities in order to promote the
health level of society. In this way the medical treatments are provided
for all the people of a country without considering the time and place.
10. Electronic Commerce
The Electronic Commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, refers
to all business activities like purchasing, selling and exchanging the
goods, services and information based on ICT. In this way it provides
the justified and secure opportunities for all the people of a country
and can effect the country commerce.
11. Electronic Education
The Electronic Education, commonly known as e-education, refers to
the performing of the educational affairs based on ICT. In this way,
the justified education is provided for all people of country without
considering time and place, and it can effect the promotion of
fundamental, applied and general knowledge.
12. Electronic Insurance
The Electronic Insurance, commonly known as e-Insurance, refers to
the use of ICT in the whole activities of insurance companies like
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exchanging inside and outside of the country. In this way, it facilitates
and clarifies insurance affairs and can effect gaining the insured and
insurer's rights.
13. Electronic Tourism
The Electronic Tourism, commonly known as e-tourism, refers to the
use of ICT in introducing the cultural, social and historical effects of a
country and serving the tourists electronically, in this way it facilitates
and speeds up the tourists' affairs and promotes the tourism level.