As it was informed earlier, on 23^rd May, 2016 the meeting of IIS leaders with Dr. Saied Reza Ameli, Professor of Communications and American Studies of the University of Tehran, Chief of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture: Dual Spacization of the World, and Dr. Hamid Zanganeh, the 3^rd Counselor of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Moscow took place at the premises of the Institute of the Information Society.

Following the meeting, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Institute and the University of Tehran.

The Parties agreed as follows:

• to mutually develop and structure cooperation and work together towards the shared goals of building a people-oriented, inclusive and development oriented information society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, and to promote the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the global partnership for development the attainment of a more peaceful, just and prosperous world.
• to establish a close cooperation in order to encourage the implementation of ICTfor development in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation and to stimulate the development of ICT policy and regulation, as well as research and technology cooperation.
• to exchange appropriate information and promote together the work in such field as information society development policy and regulations, digital government, smart nation, smart city, smart education, e-culture, e-science etc.
• to reinforce cooperation in the area of publishing research papers by identifying relevant authors and publications and recommending them to be published in the "Information Society" journal and in the Iranian scientific journals.
• to initiate, co-organize or facilitate mutual participation in relevant workshops, conferences, congresses etc. held in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the Russian Federation and in other countries where possible, to benefit from networking, knowledge sharing and capitalizing the contents of such events.

From the University of Tehran the Faculty of World Studies and the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture will be responsible for the implementation of the MoU.