Preparation for Regional Conference on WSIS2015

Hafezieh Hall, Saad-Abad Complex, Tehran; 12 Nov 2012
 

An annual national conference which is called “The National Conference on Preparation for WSIS+10 Summit 2015”, are scheduled by Iran National Committee for WSIS. As conference schedule it would be hold on February or March, except the years that another regional or international relating event to be held in Iran, results in merging both events.

The second conference held in conjunction with First Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Ministerial Meeting on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on November 2012, at Saad-Abad Complex Tehran , Iran.

The workshop contained two sessions. The first one was conducted by Mr. Ali Hakimjavadi, Deputy Minister of ICT and Chairman of Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITO), Mr. Ali Asghar Ansari, Vice Chairman of ITO and Dr. Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini director of ICT-SIS and director of Information Technology Group of EE Department in Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). In this session the WSIS experience of Islamic Republic of Iran are introduced to ECO member States delegations.

In the second part that was conducted by Mr. Ansari (from ITO), and Dr. Shahhoseini (from IUST), the challenges for national WSIS activities in 2013 was discussed by Domestic IT mangers from governmental and private Sector who was invited and attended in the workshop.