What is the goal of the Second Interregional Seminar on Central & Western Asian Countries and Information Society?
This seminar is a sequel to the seminars that have started since 2000. During that year, UNESCO paid special attention to information society. Before that, many countries had worked on the subject. We decided to carry out a similar study in Iran as well. For this reason, we held the first interregional seminar on Central & Western Asian Countries and Information Society in September 2001. Why is the seminar being held as an interregional seminar? When the Institute for Communication Research was inaugurated in 1995, we were planning to establish ties with Central Asian countries to cooperate in the field of communications. From that time we were thinking about the establishment of a Communication Research and Studies Center. We proposed it to UNESCO and declared our readiness to establish such a center in the Allameh Tabatabaiee University of Iran. We asked for their support. A delegation from UNESCO came here to study our proposal and then went to Central Asian countries. The issue wa
