The 1st International Conference on Public Relations

25-27 January 2005
Tehran, Iran

Awarding the Statue of Dr. Notghi to PR Old Professionals

The statue of the late Dr. Notghi, father of Iran PR, will be awarded to some of the old PR professionals at the closing ceremony of ICPR.

It is worth mentioning that ICPR, which is going to be held in Iran for the first time, is a suitable opportunity for commemorating the endeavors of Iran old professionals in PR. However, awarding the statue of the late Dr. Notghi to Iran old professionals is an initiative which is carrying out for the first time in coincide with the ICPR. It is planned that this action to be continued as a symbolic action annually during ICPR event in order to respect the value of the people who are working in PR field in Iran as a national action in PR society.

"From individual PR to national and international PR, A European case study"

It covers many of the topics of the Conference. This is a case study about the PR experience of over 100 million people living in the East European countries (including Romania) in their last 15 years in their PR and communicational battle for joining the European Union. It is about importing PR vs. exporting PR, practice vs. tuition, PR vs. advertising, getting national vs. international, joining PR associations at home vs. going international etc.

Iran PR Information Highway Starts Up

The first internet institute of PR was established in Iran. Mehdi Bagherian the manager of the said web site said: The institute established aiming to centralize and provide the availability to update information and giving awareness to those interested on the newest PR events in Iran, providing scientific relationship, establishing a center for information exchange, introducing the capabilities and facilities of Iran PR society, promoting and strengthening the culture of using electronic PR as well as providing a virtual place for interaction between PR professionals and will bring about various programs and services on different fields of PR supported by these professionals.

He added: The institute will hold a series of special program for promoting the human resources of PR by designing courses and workshops.

In other part of his speech he said: Media services, writing and publication activities, verbal consultation activities, performing cultural and artistic programs, holding seminars and festivals, crisis management and communications and special needs are among other services of this institute.

The editor-in-chief of PR Professional Quarterly while mentioning the various sections of this site added: The article data base is including the articles of magazines, newspapers, publications and other resources.

He specified: Providing data base is one of the programs and services of this site. In this data base, there are much information on museums, cultural centers, Iran newspapers, news agencies, libraries, list of Iranian computer companies, list of advertising companies, embassies, tourism information and attractions, resorts, restaurants, tourism agencies and other information required for PRs.

He said: The web site of Kargozar Public Relations Institute (KPRI) will introduce those professionals working in PR industry including the picture, name, surname, date of birth, position, name of company or institute he/she is working, name of university attended, field of study, specialty and finally their address and e-mails.

He added; Job vacancy data base is among those databases established aiming for job information. In this data base the résumé of job seeker, employer information and job experiences will be offered to PR society. Meanwhile, the information of self-employed and those who are specialist in PR and communication will be added in this section.

At the end of his speech he emphasized: The first Iran PR internet site can be reached through: www.iranpr.org  

List of Iranian Speakers

 Dr. Kazem Motamed Nejad: Prof. of Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, and Father of Iran Modern Communications/ Dr. Mehdi Mosenian-Rad: Professor of Imam Sadegh University and Theorecian of Message Bazaar Global Theory/ Dr. Ali Akbar Jalali: Professor of Iran University of Science & Technology(IUST ), West Virginia University (WVU) & Theorecian of 4th Wave Global Theory/ Mohammad Javad Nateghpour (Ph.D.): Academic Member, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Tehran/ Mohammad Javad Nateghpour (Ph.D.): Academic Member, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Tehran/ Dr. Ali Akbar Farhangi: Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Shahid Beheshti University/ Dr. Nasrin Jazani:  Associate Professor in Business administration department Shahid Beheshti University/ Dr. Hossein Ali Afkhami: Associate Professor  of  Communication Department, Allameh Tabatabaei University/ Dr. Ali Asghar Kia: Associate Professor and Head of  Communication Department, Allameh Tabatabaei University.