Iran's Science-Technology University Receives WSIS 2012 Award

Tehran, May 27, IRNA – Iran's Science and Technology University won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Award 2012 during its forum in Geneva, Switzerland, during May 14-18. The prize was awarded to Deputy Minister of Communications, Technology and Research, Hakim Javadi who represented Iran, by the secretary general of WSIS during the inaugural ceremony of the event. The award went to the university for implementation of a research project themed ‘Research Study and Compilation of International Strategic Documents in the Field of Information Society’ under supervision of Hadi Shah-Hosseini, a faculty member of Science and Technology University. The project was ordered by Information Technology (IT) Organization in 2011./end