TEHRAN, May 28 (MNA) � ICT Deputy Minister Nasrollah Jahangard said Iranians have developed 70,000 mobile applications in the last year and a half, calling for the teaching of programming languages in Iran�s universities.


Nasrollah Jahangard, Deputy Minister for Communications and Information Technology, made the remark in the closing ceremony of Sharif Codecup on Friday, while deeming the IT market in Iran �rapidly expanding�.

�The third and fourth generations of mobile telecommunications and the ability to upload information have caused a complete metamorphosis in the country�s IT market,� he said.

Jahangard went on to add, �the country�s ICT market share is about $85 million, the major part of which is dedicated to telecommunications technologies.�

The software�s share of the market is currently very scant, but this process is rapidly expanding, he added.

�The IT industry holds about 2.5 per cent share of the country�s GDP, but we predict that this share will increase at least two-fold over the next five years,� he said.

Jahangard went on to add, �currently, the predicted share of ICT market in Iran is worth over $29 billion that can have 20-30 percent growth given the rapid development in the fields of software, application and content.�

By Mehr News Agency