Infrastructures and Necessities of Training Electronic Citizens in the High Schools of Tehran

Development of communication technology and establishment of information society, have raise training of electronic citizens (e-citizens) a new purpose for education. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to prepare the situation and provide necessary infrastructures at high schools. This piece of research is intended to review the situation and infrastructures at the high schools of Tehran. The target population included all principals and teachers at the high schools of Tehran working in 1387-88 academic schoolyear. The sample contained 253 subjects who were selected according to Cochran formula through multistage method. To gather necessary data, researcher-made questionnaire was used, the validity and reliability of which had already been confirmed. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to evaluate the data. The results of descriptive and inferential analysis indicated that the technological infrastructure, socio-cultural situation, human resource status, educational system, and educationalmanagement were not appropriate enough for training e-citizens. It seems necessary to improve the situation.