In recent years, the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications has been at the forefront of strategic plans of developed countries and it is predicted that artificial intelligence will have tremendous effects in various areas over the years.

Strategic Studies and Digital Economics Center, with the approach of providing research-based strategic and macro consulting to policy-making institutions in this field, especially the "Ministry of Information and Communications Technology", by developing interactions between scientific and research centers, knowledge-based companies and sectoral and cross-sectoral policy-making institutions has been established at national and international levels.

This division draws on the expertise of its workforce to underpin its activities and is dedicated to explore new horizons and conduct research to improve the state-of-the art in Information Technology.

In recent years, the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications has been at the forefront of strategic plans of developed countries and it is predicted that artificial intelligence will have tremendous effects in various areas over the years.

According to the studies done on ICT ecosystem in the country, status of the education and higher education systems in meeting the skill requirements of this industry and underlying factors affecting the consistency of training and knowledge transfer platforms in the country, adapting mitigating approaches to the gap between the ICT industry skills requirements and university and classroom education is all the more necessary.

Communication and Information Technology Security Research faculty is one of the active research faculties in the ICT Research Institute, which is considered one of the oldest governmental research institutions in the field of FAVA and the thinking brain and the powerful consulting body of Ministry of ICT.