Although the last year of the 11th Parliament was not accompanied by controversial projects such as Sayanat; But it did not have important and effective approvals like the seventh plan. However, in the end, the budget of 1403 was not approved. The parliament, which passed its last days with the absence of the remaining representatives from the 12th term, saw the hacking of various systems in Bahman in order to have a complete package for supply.
According to Iran digital economy annotation, the seventh development plan was the most important law that the parliament dealt with last year. This program dedicates a separate chapter to “Development of the National Information Network and Digital Economy” and includes relatively important rulings. Among them is the sensitive and controversial issue of access to data of startups as well as training of human resources.
500 thousand forces, 20 million connections
At the beginning of the 13th chapter of the 7th development plan, the quantitative objectives of the digital economy during the program are specified. including the realization of 99% of the goals of the National Information Network Architecture and Master Plan document and reaching the share of the digital economy in the total GDP to 10% from the current 7.5%.
Some of this chapter’s goals, like the last one, seemed minimal, but others are ambitious. In this section, there is talk of connecting 20 million office, commercial and residential places to optical fiber. That is, assuming the creation of 20 million optical fiber covers in the country, all these covers will become active subscribers, which is not seen even in the most advanced countries in the field of optical fiber. For this purpose, the Ministry of Communications has been obliged to establish an optical fiber development fund and to create at least 5 million optical fiber subscriptions annually by using its resources and the investment of operators.
Another major goal of this program is the training of at least 500,000 skilled and specialized human resources for the development of the digital economy and virtual space during the program, which is under the responsibility of the ministries of labor, communication and science, along with the presidential vice president for science and technology.
Also, the Ministry of Communications has been given “permission” to establish the International Communications Company with the participation of the non-governmental sector, which according to the Minister of Communications, if established, will perform part of the duties of the infrastructure communications company in the field of data transit.
Supreme Council of Cyberspace, above all
In another part of this program, it is stated: “The Supreme Council of Cyberspace is the authority for policy, decision-making and coordination in issues related to cyberspace, and as the case may be, its approvals are binding for all executive bodies.”
Based on this, the National Center for Cyberspace has been obliged to compile, with the cooperation of other related institutions, regulations on the division of institutional work, how to govern cyberspace, especially in the field of cyberspace security, and the implementation indicators of the cyberspace strategic document.
Also, the strategic document of the Islamic Republic of Iran in cyberspace, approved in Bahman 1401, should be revised. In spite of all this, the Parliament has increased the power of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace in the seventh program.
The budget
The budget of 1403, which of course was not finalized until the end of 1402, and it is not known what its fate will be, had also dedicated Note 13 to the field of communications. According to this note, all executive bodies are required to allocate at least half of their budgets to cyber security.
Also, the budgets of municipalities and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development have obliged to cooperate with optical fiber operators for drilling and installing equipment.
Intelligence cooperation with Russia
In Azar of last year, the parliament approved the intelligence cooperation bill between Iran and Russia in a short period of time. This agreement, which was signed a long time ago and during the government of Hassan Rouhani, between Iran and Russia, aims to promote ideas such as violating the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of the country, terrorist purposes, interfering in the internal affairs of governments, inflaming ethnic and racial enmity, Racism and the spread of harmful information and such cases.
Trying for nothing
The online distribution of medicine was one of the other things that the parliament tried to eliminate its monopoly in 1402. The story was that the Food and Drug Organization had given an exclusive license for the online distribution of drugs to Day Insurance, and despite the repeated emphasis of the presidential legal vice, it did not take action to remove the exclusive online distribution of drugs.
In this case, there was even a difference of opinion between different departments of the government. The Deregulation Board of the Ministry of Economy approved the approval of the legal activity of online drug distribution platforms, but shortly after, the Food and Drug Organization announced that the First Vice President had canceled it.
In the meantime, the Commission on Article 90 of the Parliament tried to make the Food and Drug Organization obey the law. In a letter to Bahram Eynollahi, the Minister of Health, Nasrollah Pejmanfar, the head of the Article 90 Commission, protested this issue and wrote that Bimah Day continues to operate as a monopoly.
In this letter, Pejmanfar warned that if the Ministry of Health does not approve the guidelines for the online distribution of medicine within the stipulated time, this commission will use its executive guarantee and deal with this ministry.
Before that, Mojtaba Tavangar, the head of the parliament’s digital economy and knowledge-based economy committee, warned the health minister to remove the monopoly of Day insurance in this market.
Finally, after many struggles, the Ministry of Health recognized the online distribution of medicine, but in an unfavorable way. In the regulation issued by this ministry in the middle of Esfand, pharmacies applying for online distribution of medicine and transport platforms are required to connect to the system of the Food and Drug Organization in order to send medicine. This regulation is written in such a way that the active businesses in this area were not satisfied and practically a large part of their power was handed over to the Food and Drug Organization.
In this case, the parliament tried to eliminate the monopoly and extravagance of the Food and Drug Organization, but in the end, this organization changed the game in its favor.
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