A Conceptual Framework of Information Technology Strategic Issues: National and Global Strategic Documents Analysis

Achieving significant advances in the field of technologies, like information and communication technology, is one of the issues that has been emphasized on in strategic documents, especially the documents of the vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1404. Comprehensive categorizing of the strategic issues of information technology in the national and international scale is a procedure that can provide decision-makers and policy-makers a suitable view. On the one hand, this kind of information representation causes a better definition and understanding in this area, and on the other hand, gives the policy-makers a general picture on the subject being studied.The purpose of this research is to achieve conceptual framework of the strategic issues according to strategic documentation published by countries. For this, 11 4 strategic documents of information technology have been organized and analyzed by employing analyzing qualitative content method and inductive approach. The findings of this research encompasses more than 900 IT strategic issues that are in 16 main categories: e-commerce, e-organization, e-government, e-health, e-learning, other practical areas, cyberspace, information and digital content, human resources, ICT industry, information and knowledge society, infrastructure, laws, rules, procedures, information and communication technology reform, research and development and telecommunications. This article results in a comprehensive and overall look in the field of IT strategies.