Evaluation of Iran's Position in terms of Information and Communication Technology Development Indicator (IDI) among the countries of the region with an emphasis on 1404 Perspective Document of Iran

Information and communication technology (ICT), as a key technology, plays a central role in the pursuit of national development macro goals, such as 1404 perspective document of Iran and the realization of the information society. Therefore, the present study evaluates the status of Iran among the countries of 1404 perspective document of Iran in terms of Information and Communication Technology development indicator (IDI). The research method is descriptiveanalytic with an applied objective. The statistical population of the study is Iran and 23 countries in the 1404 perspective document in 2016. In order to assess the status of Iran among the countries of the document, the method proposed by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the 11 indicators introduced in this method have been used. The result shows that Iran ranks 16 with the score of 4.99 in the 24 countries of the perspective document. The countries of Bahrain, Israel and the UAE, with scores of 7.46, 7.40, and 7.11, are in a good position. The countries of Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan are in a bad situation among the countries of the region. Pearson correlation test also indicates a negative correlation between the population and the enjoyment of countries by ICT and the positive correlation between GDP per capita and the enjoyment of countries by ICT. The results of the Williamson coefficient calculation show that the greatest inequality in the spatial distribution of the sub-indices is related to fixed broadband and mobile broadband subscribers with coefficients of .775 and .724, and the lowest inequality is related to the sub-index of the registration rate in the second grade of high school and international internet broadband with coefficients of .236 and .121, respectively.