The Visit of Hamrahe Aval’s Deputy CEO from the Information and Communications Technology Park

“Hamrahe Aval” (MCI) is the first and largest mobile operator in Iran. MCI has approximately 17 million postpaid and 49 million prepaid subscribers.

At the beginning of this meeting, Dr. Mohammad Jafar Sadigh Damghanizadeh, President of ICT Park, welcomed the Deputy CEO of “Hamrahe Aval” and the accompanying delegation for visiting the Park and then introduced the Park: “the main mission of ICT Park is to develop the economy and deepen the companies’ technology with the aim of increasing competitiveness. For this reason, on the one hand, we should consider the Park as a new generation of Research Institutes in which, instead of using State employees, researches are done by researchers employed in the private sector.”

The Minister’s Advisor and President of the Communications and Information Technology Park identified the Park’s function as its most crucial distinctive aspect. He asserted: “other Parks concern themselves with only the issue of demand, but ICT Park has the duty of producing and selling goods to the market. In other words, it’s not a Start-up Park, but a Park that hosts developed companies and has a product.” 
He noted, with regards to ICT Park’s status in the Innovation Ecosystem and Ecology: “ICT Park is a kind of park which is on the market-side and plays a complementary role for the duties of the Parks on the supply-side.” 

President of ICT Park declared the Park’s missions as “helping young companies in the field of ICT to grow and convert them to developed companies,” “developing the international interactions of Iranian ICT industries,” “attracting the elite and genius and reversing the of their immigration process,” and “networking the country’s growth centers and linking their evolved companies to the market.”

Dr. Sadigh Damghanizadh considered “accelerator projects,” “operational programs,” “laboratories and equipment,” “periodic assessment and control of indexes,” and “services” as ICT Park’s main components and emphasized: “export of cultural and artistic data, cloud service provision, and export of these services to the countries in the region, IOT’s application in the matters of food security, water consumption management and intelligent city, and construction of foundations for the open operating system and expanding its application in Iran and Persian speaking countries, are ICT Park’s accelerator projects .”

He divided ICT Park’s operational programs into two categories of “general” and “exclusive” and said: “the development of young enterprises, the Digital Economy Development Network, and the Globalization Program are of the Park’s general programs. And Innovation Clusters with the open innovation method, the Supply Chain Development Plan, etc., constitute the Park’s exclusive programs.”

The Minister’s Advisor and President of ICT Park continued: “in ICT Park, various specialized laboratories such as the Rapid Computation Lab, Animation Lab, Cloud Services Laboratory, the Lab of “IOT’s application in manufacturing agricultural products” (with the cooperation of the University of Tehran), “Transportation with UAV” Laboratory (with the cooperation of Iran Post), and “Remote Sensing Laboratory” (with the collaboration of Space Organization) are also present and active.”

Dr. Sadigh Damghanizadeh considered the “Annual Economic Progress Index”, “Work Knowledge Force Index”, “Technology Depth Index,” and “Product and Services Export Index” as periodic evaluation and control indexes and added: “the Annual Economic Progress Index” compares the annual and the last year revenues and it is calculated at the level of the company and Park and declared annually. The “Work Knowledge Force Index” shows the number of the active forces and their level of knowledge.”

Consequently, Mr. Behroozi, Deputy CEO of Hamrahe Aval, expressed his gratification at his visit from the Park and provided explanations about Hamrahe Aval’s activities, the services offered by the company, and the Holdings and companies associated with Hamrahe Aval.

The Deputy CEO of Hamrahe Aval regarded cooperation in software areas related to Hamrahe Aval’s services, Design, Manufacturing and Development of Battery, Manufacturing of Cellphone, etc. as noteworthy for cooperating with the techno-companies located in the Park.

As the continuation of the meeting, Dr. Sadigh Damghanizadeh, Minister’s Advisor and President of ICT Park, emphasized: “the cooperation between ICT Park and Hamrahe Aval Company can prepare the grounds for mutual growth, clustering, and innovation.”

It must be noted that the following  individuals were present in the visit: Dr. Mohammad Jafar Sadigh Damghanizadeh, Minister’s Advisor and President of ICT Park, Dr. Ehsan Chitsaz, Deputy of ICT Park’s Market Development, Dr. Mohammadreza Zakerzadeh, Companies’ Development and Innovation Clustering Advisor to President of ICT Park, Engr. Mohammad Ali Jafari, Director of ICT Park’s Techno-units Development Center, Mr. Behroozi, Deputy CEO of Hamrahe Aval, Mr. Kamali, Vice-president of Hamrahe Aval’s Board of Directors, Mr. Taheri Bakhsh, Scientific-Technical Deputy of Hamrahe Aval Network Development, Mr. Rastegar, Director-general of the Infrastructure and Cloud Services domain and the accompanying delegation.