Iran recently proposed to member states of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) the manufacturing of a satellite that would be used for joint telecommunications services. Speaking the ECO’s first Ministerial Meeting on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) held in Tehran, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Reza Taqipour suggested the standardization of telecommunications systems among member states.
The ministerial meeting started last Sunday and will continue until Tuesday. The event aims to bring together member states of the ECO and discuss the growing ICT industry in the region, developments for the ICT infrastructure, partnerships between the telecom private sectors and the private-public sectors, and emerging technologies in the industry. Members of the intergovernmental regional organization included Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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