TEHRAN – The 8th national festival on information and communication technology (ICT) will be held on May 17, Mehr reported on Monday.

The festival will be held in six sections namely top startups in the field of ICT, e-services, e-business, research on ICT, top ICT companies, space technology and space-based services. 

For the first time, startups providing space-based technologies and services, will compete at the festival.

The space-based startups active in different fields of agriculture, insurance, oil, healthcare, energy, crisis management, environment, urban and rural management can compete at the space-based section of the festival.

The applicants that use GPS, communication bandwidth and remote sensing satellites as well as producing and designing space technologies will be competing at the space-based section of the festival.

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