Government inventory finds nearly 14 systems per agency in Iran
A government inventory logs 3,200 system–agency records across more than 230 Iranian agencies to identify software overlap and opportunities for shared tools.
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Iranian government agencies in a software inventory use roughly 14 systems each on average, as officials compile data to identify overlapping tools and opportunities to share them across agencies.
The Information Technology Organization of Iran has logged 3,200 validated system–agency records across more than 230 agencies, according to remarks by Maziar Mobasheri reported by the Communications Ministry. The entries record systems used by individual agencies; the total does not establish how many distinct software products are in use.
Mobasheri, the organization’s deputy for regulation and digital platform development, said the data had been collected from multiple sources, reviewed, cleaned and validated as part of work under Article 107(t) of Iran’s Seventh Development Plan.
Identifying tools agencies could share
The inventory covers human resources and financial management, office automation, accounting, payroll, attendance tracking, warehouse and asset management, correspondence, archives and organizational portals.
Mobasheri said the information would allow officials to map the distribution of similar systems, identify suppliers and determine which functions offered opportunities for shared tools.
Analysis could show which solutions agencies use in each area and where there is greater scope to reduce the number of systems by sharing existing software, he said.
He described documenting the current arrangements as a prerequisite for deciding which systems to prioritize. Without knowing how software is distributed and what agencies need, decisions about developing shared systems would be constrained, he said.
The inventory is intended to inform those decisions. The announcement did not specify how many systems would be consolidated or give a timetable for doing so.
Minister criticizes a “forest of systems”
The proliferation of government systems has also drawn criticism from Communications and Information Technology Minister Sattar Hashemi.
Speaking previously at an event on artificial intelligence and digital government transformation, Hashemi said: “People are lost in a forest of government systems, and instead of having their work made easier, they are constantly told that the system is down.”
