Evaluating Iran's Progress in ICT Sector Using e-Readiness Index, a System Dynamics Approach

摘要

In the modern era, Advancement in information technology needs advancements in many areas including communications, human resources, business environment, legal background, and so on. Current information technology growth indicators such as e-readiness indicator spotted this fact too. National legislators are always seeking a way to improve this sector and use it as an enabler industry. In some developing countries, a considerable effort has been devoted to this field but they have not reached their expected result. Iran is also attempting to engage in similar activities in recent years, but it made one of the worst results among others. In this study a system dynamics approach is used to model changes of information technology state in Iran. By implementation and simulation of this model we found some reasons of this problem in Iran. Then we tried to introduce some policies to make steady growth in the future.