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The Country Perspective: TURKEY

The Country Perspective: TURKEY. H. İbrahim AKÇA State Planning Organization March 26 , 200 4. Outline. e-Transformation Turkey Project ICT Indicators of Turkey WB Financed KE Projects Invitation to the KE Forum IV in Istanbul. Urgent Action Plan of Turkey (November 2002).

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The Country Perspective: TURKEY

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  1. The Country Perspective:TURKEY H. İbrahim AKÇA State Planning Organization March 26, 2004

  2. Outline • e-Transformation Turkey Project • ICT Indicators of Turkey • WB Financed KE Projects • Invitation to the KE Forum IV in Istanbul

  3. Urgent Action Plan of Turkey (November 2002) • Public Administration Reform Program • Economic Transformation Program • Social Transformation Program • Democratization and Judiciary Reform Program

  4. e-Transformation Turkey Project - Government’s Urgent Action Plan urges public institutions to take necessary measures in order to remedy long-term problems. - Under the Public Administration Reform Program, information society is declared among the highest priority issues. - e-Transformation Turkey Project is aiming to foster the evolution and to coordinate information society activities.

  5. Objectives ofe-Transformation Turkey Project • Aligning ICT policies and regulations with the EU acquis and adopting eEurope+ Action Plan. • Enhencing participation of citizens to decision-making process. • Transparency and accountability for public management. • Good governance principles in government services. • Promoting ICT diffusion. • Avoiding duplicated public ITprojects • Guiding private sector according to the above-mentioned principles.

  6. Executive Board State Planning Organization Advisory Board e-Transformation Turkey Project Administrative Framework Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State (e-Minister)

  7. Short Term Action Plan • STAP consists of 73 actions and; • 8 action lines: - Information Society Strategy(2) -Technical Infrastructure/Information Security(5) - Education and Human Resources(8) - Legal Infrastructure(13) - Standards(1) - e-Government(23) - e-Health(15) - e-Trade(6)

  8. ICT Indicators

  9. e-Readiness POSITION COUNTRY POINT 1 Finland 5.92 2 USA 5.79 3 Singapore 5.74 ... ... ... 24 Estonia 4.69 ... ... ... 39 Poland 3.85 ... ... ... 50 TURKEY 3.57 • Among 82 Countries, Turkey ranked 50th in overall. • Source: World Economic Forum Global IT Report 2002-03

  10. Knowledge Economy Projects in Turkey Financed by the WB • 1993: Informatics and Economic Modernization Study • 1991-1998: Technology Development Project • 1998: Basic Education Project • 1999: Industrial Technology Project • 2004: HealthSector Reform Project • 2005: Knowledge Economy and Innovation Project

  11. Technology • Technology Development Project: improving the Turkish technology infrastructure and services. • Industrial Technology Project:harmonizing technology infrastructure to be WTO and EU compliant, and upgrading technology services to firms.

  12. Education Basic Education Project: The objectives of the Project: • providing training for ICT trainers and inspectors, • introducing computer-aided learning, • computer education in over 3,000 basic education, * First Phase: Ministry of Education provided 2,800 schools with computer laboratories and Internet access. * Second phase: 4,000 more schools.

  13. Selective Indicators of the Basic and Secondary Education in Turkey • General Figures • 13 million students • 580 thousand teachers • 59 thousand education institutions • ICT Infrastructure • 125 thousand computers • 6,400 computer laboratories • 6,000 internet connected schools (42 thousand schools will have broadband connection until 2005) • 67% of teachers are computer literate

  14. Health HealthSector Reform Project includes national health and insurance information systems. The project will be initialized in the second part of 2004.

  15. Knowledge Economy and Innovation Project The project has four core areas: - Supporting enterprise innovation; - Developing information society; - Developing skills for the knowledge economy; - Strengthening the knowledge economy environment.

  16. We invite you all to KE Forum IV to be held in İstanbul. Hope to see you in this beautiful city in 2005.

  17. Thank You... H.İbrahim AKÇA State Planning Organization www.bilgitoplumu.gov.tr March 26, 2004

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