The Director of the Office of Islamic Studies and Seminary Communications at the Cyberspace Research Institute said: One of the most important issues of the future world is cyberspace governance, to the extent that perhaps in the future, cyberspace governance wars can be envisioned.
According to the science and education group of IRNA from the Cyberspace Research Institute, Hujjat al-Islam Reza Haj Hosseini, on March 6, 2022, during the second day of the Governance Week sessions focused on Islamic cyberspace governance, added: In Islamic cyberspace governance, a new space based on Islamic intellectual foundations, values, and lifestyle should be offered to the world so that this governance model distinguishes Iran from other countries.
Emphasizing that future wars will transform dominance-seeking and weapon-based conquests into civilizational and service-based conquests, he stated: Although this soft and service-based governance model has a hard aspect to the extent that in the Nitro Zeus project, it is envisioned to constrict the space for opposing countries so much that people have no access to infrastructure such as water, electricity, and gas, and subsist on flesh and blood.
Haj Hosseini, stating that such a future will present Iran with two options, asserted: Undoubtedly, accepting such governance is incompatible with the dignity of the Iranian people, while independence in this domain ultimately leads to achieving cyberspace governance, which the people and officials will naturally choose. However, the important issue in this regard is understanding that in the future, we will not have a definition of borders as we currently know them, and the world space in the era of cyberspace is one where borders are at least diminished or eliminated.
The Director of the Office of Islamic Studies and Seminary Communications at the Cyberspace Research Institute continued: If Iran seeks entry and access to cyberspace governance in the four layers of hardware, software, content, and users, it must have a global approach and pursue governance at the world level. Defining independence in cyberspace and national independence within Iran’s borders from cyberspace governance is a wrong address; rather, the correct definition of independence is global governance in opposition to the global governance of tyranny and domination.
Emphasizing that achieving cyberspace governance for Iran in the style of China and Russia is not desirable, he stated: Creating a balanced power similar to what China has acquired in recent years is not desirable for Iran; since with the current 80-million population market, such entry and competition with world superpowers is not reasonable, nor will we have the capacity for it.
Haj Hosseini, recalling that we have a critical perspective on cyberspace ideology and believe that the structures of cyberspace ride upon incorrect ideology, stated: The mature market of 1.4 billion Muslims in the Islamic world has specific needs and a large market that the existing cyberspace does not address; therefore, it is suggested that if attention is paid to this market, the capacities of governmental, corporate, and public sectors from other countries be utilized, and Iran can play a central role to create a new cyberspace in the world.
He emphasized: All sectors of the country, institutions, officials, and elites must engage in the issue of governance and create discourse around it. Undoubtedly, we believe in categorizing and allocating capacities, to the extent that we believe at least 20% of the country’s capacities should be directed toward this goal, and elites should implement scientific cases so that by redesigning products appropriate to meanings, we can capture the large global market as much as possible.
Source: IRNA