development of digital economy, human development solution in iran

Recent information and communication technology developments have led to digitizing society and countries . the increase in productivity and efficiency of these societies, together with digitization, has sparked the expectation that developing the digital economy in iran will lead to human development . in this research , the digital economy index of 31 provinces of iran was first ranked using principal component analysis ( pca ) . then , they were placed in three clusters : very suitable , suitable and very unsuitable . in the next step , copula’s approach was applied to investigate the role of the digital economy in human development . the results showed a correlation between the human development of iran’s provinces and the digital economy development of iran’s provinces . based on this , the development of digital economy in the provinces of iran can be a way for human development .