According to RCO News Agency, quoted by the Presideial Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, Hossein Afshin, the Preside’s Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the World Artificial Ielligence and Programming Competition at Sharif University of Technology, about the state of national artificial ielligence projects, elite support programs, the process of establishing an innovation bank, and policies to support women. the technologist provided explanations.
Referring to the coinuation of cooperation between universities and executive bodies in national artificial ielligence projects, the scieific deputy said: Artificial ielligence assista is currely being coinued in about seven universities. The project is live and ministries are in consta exchange with universities. Training is being done, learning is happening, and enforceme agencies are using these assistas, while weaknesses are being addressed over time.
He meioned examples of these collaborations and added: Tehran University with the Ministry of Oil, Isfahan University of Technology with the releva departme and Al-Zahra University with the releva ministry have reached good stages. This process is taking shape and we have to be patie uil the project is completed.
The establishme of innovation bank and the ery of technological ecosystem actors
Afshin further poied to the issue of setting up the Innovation Bank and said: “We received the establishme license from the Vice Preside for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy.” Neobank We got it, but the process of forming it is time-consuming and the only license that exists is related to us.
He added: We are trying to establish this type of bank by the order of Dr. Aref, the first vice preside of the Bank of Innovation.
According to him, the poi is that according to the type of bank, this bank is not called the scieific vice-chancellor. A mistake that may exist in the public is that we are building this bank, but the scieific vice-chancellor is neither a knowledge-based company nor a bank.
Scieific Deputy of the Preside said: practically none of our knowledge-based companies are related to the Vice Preside and are related to the companies themselves, but well The scieific vice-chancellor generally supports these companies.
Afshin coinued: About Neobank And the bank, we work with the main actors of this ecosystem.
He coinued: If this Neobank If it is the first type, it should have about 70 hemats of capital, and if it is the second type, about 50 hemats. Therefore, the big players in the ecosystem should be partners to form this bank.
The academic vice preside said: One of the players that plays a role in this bank is the Innovation and Prosperity Fund.
Iran’s brilliance in the world competitions of artificial ielligence and programming
Afshin described the success of Iranian teams as very valuable and unique and said: 137 couries participated in this tourname. In the artificial ielligence section, 65 couries with 700 teams participated and the first to third ranks belonged to Iran. This means that Iran’s manpower capacity in the field of artificial ielligence is unique.
Referring to the holding of competitions in Sharif University of Technology, he said: These competitions were organized with regular hosting and iernational standards. Achieving high ratings in programming and placing a large number of Iranian represeatives in the top 10, while Iran did not have the most participas. These successes are worthy of congratulations and hope.
The support of the scieific vice-chancellor for the winners of the competitions
The scieific vice preside said about supporting the top teams: In addition to the competition prizes, people ranked one to ten – in the field of programming and artificial ielligence – will be included in the Syad Shirazi project without evaluation and can benefit from military service facilities.
He added: Top ranks in the National Elite Foundation receive special pois. This competition alone does not lead to winning foundation awards, but it has special elite pois and is influeial in the way of benefiting from the plans.
Afshin also promised that for the teams that iend to form a company, the process of becoming knowledge-based and executive support will be done “with a much simpler mechanism”.
He considered the day of the competition to be an importa day for the coury and said: Today coincides with Azar 7, the day of innovation, technology and manufacturing of Iran. We believe that we build the future with ideas and brains, not with materials. Today was a great day for the Iranian nation.
Support for women the technologist; No discrimination but with equal opportunity
Afshin in response to a question about supporting women the technologist He said: We are not looking for discrimination or even positive discrimination. Our approach is product and innovation, not gender. Iranian women and girls are so taleed and capable that they don’t need a policy of positive discrimination, and their high share in eering universities and knowledge-based companies shows this fact.
