ICT Ministry’s Public Relation – Dr. Reza Taghipour in the opening ceremony of the First Communications and Information Technology Head Office in Fars province stated that: ICT Head Offices have been opening for creating and developing Iran National Data Network according to the goals and programs considered for this section in Iran 5th Development plan.
ICT Head Office in a governmental department which acts as a coordinator and ICT Ministry’s agent in province and other departments and head offices continue their activities like the past; he added.
Taghipour asserted that Infrastructure developing, supervising services given by all subordinate organization and head offices of the ministry and the coordination between them are some of the offices roles.
He with saying that Communications and Information Technology is considered as a major and fundamental infrastructure in underdevelopment economies, asserted that: so with base making and granting the Ministry duties, not only our duties have decreased but also doing new duties such as Iran development in the Iran 4th decade of Revolution and reaching 1404 Horizon is considered as one of the fundamental pivot which must be done.
He emphasized that the ministry has kept distance from accomplishing the plans by itself and ICT ministry has entered to matters of commissioning and supervision and has been granting more than 80% of the affairs to private section and this is a great achievement.
The minister of Communications and Information Technology mentioned that creating and developing Iran National Data Network is one the obliged duties in the 5th Development Plan which is ICT ministry responsible for and said: this ministry is the 1st governmental organization in implementing the 44th Principle which is “granting affairs to non governmental and private section”.
He with pointing some capabilities of ICT ministry subordinate departments around the country believes that providing the necessary infrastructures for developing ICT in Iran is the main duty of our ministry and said: in the year 1384 with considering all the efforts made, we had about 608 million active cell phones which this number is about 60 millions at this time.
The minister of Communications asserted that: Iran input Bandwidth has increased 100 times during these 6 years and ICT infrastructures are developing beside the fast developing process of the other sections.
He said that 4.923 Activity Licenses issued for the companies working on ICT which show a 10 time increase in comparison with the past 6 years.
Creating National Data Network Infrastructures and its developing is the ICT ministry’s job as Dr. Taghipour said and he asserted: the contents and services are compatible with exploiter departments and services providers.
The minister mentioned that that Fars province was premier in inventing some services and activities on ICT zone and said: “despite this fact, I must say that Fars province is not in first place in this matter and the province related officials must evaluate the problems by travelling to the cities that are in the 1st to 6th place and use their experiences.
He named Fars as one the largest and most populated province and declared: the necessary ICT infrastructures for developing presentable services on both quality and quantity are provided and the subordinate organizations can use them.