Pezeshkian tasks ICT Ministry with launching smart gov’t digital ecosystems
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a directive, tasked the ministry of communications with implementing the government's digital ecosystems plan to achieve the objectives of the Seventh Development Plan and advance the smart government.
In a directive addressed to Sattar Hashemi, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Pezeshkian approved the proposed plan for implementing government digital ecosystems and assigned responsibility for executing this major national plan to the Ministry of Communications and the Information Technology Organization of Iran, IRNA reported.
According to the terms of this directive, the Information Technology Organization is mandated to develop and implement the macro architectures and technical standards for government digital ecosystems within six months. These ecosystems include the basic data exchange platform, the electronic documents and transactions exchange platform, and the inter-service chain accreditation system.
The implementation of the platforms related to these ecosystems must be carried out on the government cloud infrastructure platform to enhance the productivity and efficiency of the country's processing infrastructure. Furthermore, to improve the plan's effectiveness and monitor its implementation, the organization is required to establish, in collaboration with relevant entities, a mechanism for regulation and oversight of its implementation across all entities. Progress reports on the plan's implementation must also be submitted quarterly to the cabinet ministers.
The implementation program for this plan is structured in three phases. In the first phase, which must be completed within a maximum of six months from the directive's issuance, the ecosystems for finance, taxation, energy, health, cross-border trade, land, supply chain, and immigrants/foreign nationals will be implemented.
The second phase, within a maximum of nine months from the directive's issuance, will encompass the ecosystems for human resources, support, agriculture, tourism, and insurance. The remaining ecosystems will become operational in the third phase.