In implementation of article 12 of the copyright law supporting the computer software producers and a practical support thereof, The IIG organization was founded to order and organize computer legal commercial activities with incessant efforts made by the industrialists in Iran’s Telecommunication and Information Technology.
To launch the organization, by the endeavors of the board of directors of Iran’s IT companies and on the basis of the mission assigned by the council of ministers, the secretariat of the Higher Council on IT with cooperation of the country’s Management and Planning Organization from 17 provinces, the preliminaries for the formation of the province’s ICT Guild Organization were provided and following the related elections computer Guild Association was established in the provinces of Tehran, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Esfahan, Kerman, Fars, Yazd, Mazandaran, Gilan, Hamedan, Khorasan Razavi, Golestan, Gom, Markazi, Gazvin, Sistan & Balouchestan, Hormozgan and Zanjan and the Guild Association is going to be founded in Khozestan, South Khorasan and Kermanshah provinces.
Each one of the provincial organizations commenced its activities through holding general meetings and electing board of directors comprising of 6 to 25 members proportionate to the existing IT capacity in each province. Upon formation of such organization in the provinces and elections of the central council, the chairman was appointed by the state’s president and commenced its activities.
Today, acting as a regulatory body in the relationship between the private sector and the government in the area of IT, while protecting the professional rights of individual practitioners in the guild, this organization attempts to participate in the process of decision making for this area and transfer such decisions to the executive levels and mutually provide the feedback from those levels of execution back to the policy making and planning levels to furnish a due course of action.
