The Fourth Industrial Revolution and transformation in governance: Forming a data mining and intelligent planning organization in the 7th Development Plan

Ashtrian, K.

doi:10.22035/isih.2022.436

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Author

K. Ashtrian

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22035/isih.2022.436

Abstract

This article seeks to show how the fourth industrial revolution provided a ground for various innovations which in turn affected the traditional paradigm of the government planning. The article has resorted to the previous literature on the impact of technologies and the transformation in planning systems. An analytical synthesis of existing literature and its application in the planning has been taken into account. Findings indicate that the 7th Development Plan requires fundamental revisions in terms of paradigm changes caused by cyber-physical systems. In other words, cyber-physical systems have created new requirements and conditions so that traditional planning organizations change their direction towards Administrative Data and Big Data Analytics and move towards a new concept of administration, i.e. the government as a provider of information-communication platforms, and in general transform their administrative structure and human resources. This paradigm shift covers a wide range including the source of knowledge for planning as well as structures and processes of that planning. This transformation encounters government planning organizations with difficulties, that is, either they accept the paradigm shift or collapse. The article proposes a "Cyber intelligent planning and data mining organization" with the combination of the program and budget organization and the recruitment organization in order to track the transfer of planning tasks to the civil-professional sector and social entrepreneurship in public policymaking and the separation of the program from the central planning organizations.

Keywords

Main Subjects

7th Development Plan in Iran

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