The head of Basij cyber space organization: Sanctions cannot stop the path of digital knowledge

According to the art and media reporter of Fars news agency, the press conference of the final stage of the country’s fourth national digital content production event in the Basij virtual space organization was held this morning with the presence of Moslem Moin, the head of the country’s Basij virtual space organization.

In this meeting, the official of the Basij Cyber ​​Space Organization, while pointing out the details of the various stages of the digital content production event across the country, said: Basij Cyber ​​Space Organization is a group under the Basij Organization of the Underprivileged, which operates as the largest popular organization in the world. Based on these indicators, Basij cyberspace organization has placed its main special work in its mission field in cyberspace on people-based activities. The mission geometry of Basij organization is to create a convergence and synergy to form an active network in the digital field. In fact, our goal is to create a popular network to advertise and promote national and religious values ​​in cyber space.

* Holding a media literacy movement to train media forces

While referring to the actions of the Basij organization in the media literacy movement, he added: Another action of the Basij virtual space organization is holding the media literacy movement, and in this context, it continues its activities to promote media literacy and train active media forces. Another action of the Basij cyberspace organization is to provide services in cyberspace. Another action of the virtual space organization is to mobilize the local content production movement in the field of virtual space productions. In this field, some of the products are general and others are specialized, which are known as digital products.

Moein continued: The digital content production event will be held on 3 levels, the first level is in the cities, which is given in the form of calls to identify teams for virtual space productions. In an intra-city competition, teams compete with each other and the best of them enter the provincial stage. After the city stage, the teams compete at the provincial level, and finally, the best of them will go to the national stage. This year, for the fourth year in a row, the provincial and city stages were held in the fall, and the national stage will be held in the coming days.

Referring to the details of different levels of the digital content production event, the official of the Basij virtual space organization pointed out: At the provincial level, there were three fields of mobile software, mobile game and animation, which was held in November this year. This event should be seen as the biggest digital content production event in the world. Just as the dimensions of holding Basij events cannot be compared with any other place, and no example can be given for it.

* 40% increase in the participation of women in the event of digital content production

He continued: This year, at the level of provincial events, a thousand teams participated in the provincial stages and there were 4,100 participants, which was a 30% increase compared to last year. Despite the bad publicity of the foreign media, we saw an increase in the number of participants this year. In the field of women, we saw a 40% increase in women’s participation. Also, 562 people participated in the animation department and 228 people participated in the mobile phone software department in the digital content production event.

*Empowerment workshop for event participants

Muslim Moin added: This event will be held in the coming days, from 9 to 11 February, in the specialized event hall of content production in the spy’s nest, with the presence of 118 teams from all over the country and about 600 participants. All the participants of this event are the youth of the Islamic Revolution who work in the field of software and animation. This year’s program will be held in a longer period of time than last year and in 72 hours. Along with the program, an empowerment workshop will be held with the presence of professors in various fields. After the event, both accelerators and digital backers can invest in the selected event teams and their development.

The official of the Basij Cyber ​​Space Organization said: In the Basij Cyber ​​Space Organization, measures have been taken to facilitate and support these groups, which can be evaluated in several sections. In the first part, a number of products selected from last year’s event are ready to be released to the market, and these products will be presented at this year’s opening. Also, this event will end with a grand finale in the form of a virtual space festival, in which more than a thousand cyberspace activists and winners will gather and be honored in the Fajr decade. In this conclusion, the country’s face of the year in cyber space will be introduced.

He continued: In this event, the Basij organization provides an arena for talent search across the country, for example; Last year, a youth team from Dehlran city of Ilam province with a low average age participated in this program. He is also active in the field of IT and content production as a facilitator and accelerator of Basij’s virtual space organization.

* The presence of countries from the region and Eastern Europe in Iran

In response to a Fars reporter’s question, the official of the Basij cyberspace organization said about the planning for the international dimension of this event: As you know, domestic knowledge-based companies are usually faced with unkindness from the accelerators in the international arena, but still, some of the countries in the region and European countries Due to some products, productions and the presence of our companies in the events of different countries, Sharqi are organizing to participate in the digital content production event. Also, some foreign guests who are active in the field of content production have also been invited for the conclusion of this event.

He continued: “Also, in the international field, it is possible to translate the games Commander of Resistance and Ambassador of Love into international languages ​​for global release.” Fancy games are held in the commercial field, and according to the capacities of these events and taking advantage of the power of teams from all over the country, a network of content production is formed at the country level, and large projects are divided between expert forces at the country level.

* The importance of the digital field is the same as nuclear knowledge

In the end, the official of the Basij cyberspace organization, while referring to the recent sanctions, said: the existing sanctions are a propaganda show and there is a limit for many countries that want to enter the edge of knowledge. There have been such restrictions in the past, but Western countries use them for political purposes. Undoubtedly, sanctions cannot stop the path of digital knowledge. The digital field is as important as nuclear knowledge in the field of virtual space. In that case, it is possible to sanction a field that depends on its knowledge.

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