Speaking at the ceremony of unveiling the infrastructural projects of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Minister said on Thursday that the digital economy can replace the oil-dependent economy.

Iran PressIran news: Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said that the new projects will boost the digital economy, emphasizing that the digital economy can replace the oil-dependent economy and can be realized with the leap of Iran’s smart economic economy.

He said in a country with a creative young workforce the core of the digital economy has grown. He added that Iran is under international pressure, and there is no choice but to be productive, and one of the most important tools for productivity is information technology.

Talking about the new projects, Azari Jahromi underlined the data centre of the National Information Network will be launched with the creation of 407 new capacity racks and a 25% increase in the storage of the national network data.

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