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Bureaucracy Blocking Iran’s E-Governance Initiatives

Bureaucracy Blocking Iran’s E-Governance Initiatives
Bureaucracy Blocking Iran’s E-Governance Initiatives

While e-governance initiatives were to help downsize the government, the secretary of Iran’s IT Executive Council says that due to the bloated bureaucracy, these initiatives have not delivered the promised results and even made things worse.
During a press conference at the ICT Ministry on Saturday, Reza Baqeri said, “Each ministry and state agency have set up offices for offering services through mobile apps,” recruiting new members for the 2.3-million-strong army of civil servants in Iran.
“Lack of adequate infrastructure for offering online services used to be considered the main reason for the failure of e-governance projects. Now the infrastructure is in place, but apparently there is no will among state authorities for embarking on the road to digital transformation,” he was quoted as saying by ICT Ministry’s website.

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