Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made the remarks during his meeting with members of Majlis [the Iranian parliament] industry and mine committee.

“We have already launched different sections like data center and Government Service Bus (GSB) System,” he added.

He said that some problems still exist in subsystems like cadaster and electronic signature, which will be solved in near future.

During his speech, he also pointed out to Iran’s ranking in the United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI 2018), which moved up 20 points to reach 86 amongst 193 countries in comparison with EGDI 2017.

He said that it is planned to move up 30 points during the sixth Five-Year National Development Plan (2016-2021) and this moving is notable.

The first phase of e-government services project in Iran officially came on stream under the title of ‘Mobile Government’ in mid-May 2018.

The project aims to facilitate some government services, reduce unnecessary expenses and ease traffic jam, which is the main cause of air pollution in big cities.

It is based on the National Information Network, an ongoing project to develop a secure and stable infrastructure network in the country.

E-government services at the ELECOMP 2018

A total of 41 state-run organization will introduce 341 e-services during 24th Iran International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer & E-commerce (ELECOMP 2018), the Head of Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITO) Rasoul Saraeian announced in a press release on
Wednesday.

The organizations will introduce their services at a specific hall at the exhibition, which is held from July 28 to 31 at Tehran International Permanent Fairground.

The Planning and Budget Organization with 20 e-services, Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare with 15 e-services, Securities and Exchange Organization with 16 e-services and Iran Customs Administration with 13 e-services are amongst organization, which attend the event, he said.

Through introduction of e-services by state-run organization, citizens are encouraged through smart phones, he said.

ELECOMP is the biggest event in the Iranian electronics and computer market. Since its first edition in 1995, the event has been providing a unique opportunity for businesses to increase their share of this huge and ever-growing market.

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Issued by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, EGDI evaluates the scope and quality of online services, status of telecommunication infrastructure and existing human capacity.

As it is mentioned on UN website, the EDGI value can be between 0 (lowest) and 1 (highest), as it is a weighted average of normalized scores on the three most important dimensions of e-government.

According to the UN data, Iran’s EGDI value was 0.6083 this year. Regarding the sub-items, the country got 0.6319 score in the online service index (OSI), 0.4566 in the telecommunication infrastructure index (TII), and 0.7364 in the human capital index (HCI) this year.
Iran was amongst 17 countries that transitioned from Middle- to High-EGDI level group.

On his Twitter account, Iran’s ICT minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi pointed to moving up of Iran’s ranking on EGDI 2018.

“It is planned to move up 30 points during sixth Five-Year National Development Plan (March 2021) and this moving is notable,” he wrote.

While European countries contribute 70 per cent in the group of 62 countries with Very-High EPI levels. Asia follows with the largest proportion of 36 percent in the same Very High-EPI level group while comprising 24
percent of the 193 Member States.

Denmark, Australia and South Korea are on top list, scoring a very high ranking in e-government development amongst 193 countries that were evaluated.

The EGDI, which assesses e-government development at the national level, is a composite index based on the weighted average of three normalized indices. One-third is derived from a Telecommunications Infrastructure Index (TII) based on data provided by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), one-third from a
Human Capital Index (HCI) based on data provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and one-third from the Online Service Index (OSI) based on data collected from an independent survey questionnaire, conducted by UNDESA, which assesses the national online presence of all 193 United Nations Member States.

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