A Study on the Factors Influencing the Development of ICT in Iranian Ministry of Sports and Youth

Nowadays, ICT has led to extensive development in various fields and its impact on societies and government agencies is important and unavoidable. The research is to study, identify and examine the factors influencing the development of ICT in the Iranian Ministry of Sports and Youth respectively. This study, in terms of methodology is descriptive and co-relational. The population was the experts of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and 116 people were chosen through random sampling. The software SPSS-20 and Amos-20 were used to data analysis in descriptive, analytical and equation structural modeling. The results showed that in general, vision and strategy, financial resources, technical infrastructure, organizational culture, human resources and the current status of ICT in the organization are the factors affecting the development of information and communication technology. The results of review simultaneous on the both of these variables showed that the factors affecting the information and communication technology (ICT) has a meaningful effect on the ICT Development Index. Standard coefficient indicates that the relationships between these are of the rate 88.2 percentage, which is very high.