The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world’s largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT masterplan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government processes to boost competitiveness.
The same ICT framework is being adopted nationwide by all of Iran’s ‘mega cities’, but municipal authorities have been able to adapt the plan with local projects.
Iran's Social Security Organization will also present new technologies in areas of medical informatics. They will show smart credit cards for medical costs as well as Management Information Systems, electronic patient records, Telemedicine, picture archiving and communication systems, and systems connecting medical, laboratory and imaging equipments to Hospital Information Systems.
According to ISNA, the Secretary of country’s Supreme IT Council Abdol-Majid Riyazi referring to the significance of taking optimum advantage of the IT in a bid to materialize the government’s four major national objectives, said, “This secretariat a while ago devised a practical executive plan for the establishment of the e-government, that led to the preparation of a model in which the structure of such a government is elaborated in details.”
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Ali Kargozar added in an interview with IRNA, “Today in advanced countries many people do not leave home for doing their shopping, because they can make their orders online at home and receive their orders at their entrance door.”
Dr. Hossein Riyazi added in an interview with CITNA, “Providing the required software for the Health Centers in a bid to enable them to send their data to the Health Ministry and the required software at the Health Ministry to collect the received data are among the moves at process currently in that respect.”