Nasrollah Jahangard (born 1958) is an Iranian

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

and former deputy minister of ICT in Technology and Innovation. In October 2000, Jahangard was nominated for Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone but legislators turned him down.https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E7DE113DF937A35753C1A9669C8B63&pagewanted=2 Back in 1997, he had been the Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph & Telephone (PTT) for Development & Planning, which the ministry later renamed to Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Also, He was the secretary of the Supreme Council of ICT of Iran and President

Mohammad Khatami Mohammad Khatami (born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. Later, he was critic ...

's advisor and special envoy for ICT affairs. He is a founding member of the

Islamic Iran Participation Front The Islamic Iran Participation Front (; ''Jebheye Mosharekate Iran-e Eslaami'') was a reformist political party in Iran. It was sometimes described as the most dominant member within the 2nd of Khordad Front. The party took 189 of the 290 seats ...

and is a member of its political office. He led the team for planning and implementing Takfa (similar to a "national ICT agenda" in some other countries), the first Iranian comprehensive countrywide plan for ICT. He received his

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in computer engineering from

Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) (), originally founded as the Melli University (National University of Iran) (), is a Public university, public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers programs at Bachelor's, Master's and Ph. ...

and from

Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) (), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1958, AUT is the oldest technical university established in Iran. It is referred to as the ...

; he earned his

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in system engineering. Jahangard was among the leaders of the National Commission of Information Society and helped the Iranian delegation to take part in

World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. WSIS Forums hav ...

(WSIS) (

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2003 and

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2005). He was elected the Man of IT in Iran in March 2005 b
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1958 births Living people Shahid Beheshti University alumni Amirkabir University of Technology alumni Vice ministers of Iran Islamic Iran Participation Front politicians Politicians from Tehran {{Iran-politician-stub