Smart City Concept in the Tenth Development Plan of Turkey (2014-2018)
The Tenth Development Plan, covering the 2014-2018 period, will be a milestone in advancing the society to high prosperity levels, in line with the 2023 targets. The Plan was prepared in a global economic environment with protracted risks, uncertainties, changes and transformations, with emerging and reshaping power balances among developed and developing economies.
The Tenth Development Plan is designed to include not only high, stable and inclusive economic growth, but also issues such as the rule of law, information society, international competitiveness, human development, environmental protection and sustainable use of resources. In the Plan, economic and social development processes of Turkey are discussed with a holistic and multi-dimensional view, and a participatory approach has been adopted within the human-oriented development framework.
Urbanization and urban transformation will be conducted in association with manufacturing industry. In this context, production and export capacity will be increased in areas such as smart buildings, building and construction materials, and public transport and signaling systems.
R&D, innovation and export incentives for information and communication technology will be ensured to be implemented in identified priority areas with a focused and impact-measurable structure. Information technology will be utilized in improving work productivity of enterprises, especially SMEs.
For development and dissemination of cloud computing services, necessary legal and administrative arrangements will be made. Use of smart applications, especially in health, transportation, building, energy and water management as well as disaster areas, will be expanded.
Transformation of cities into smart cities will be supported by improving ICT infrastructure, capacity and skill levels. Awareness about economic and social benefits of use of ICT will be increased and the skills related to these technologies will be developed. In order to reduce the digital divide and its effects, social activities in this area will be supported. Necessary education and employment programs according to the needs of ICT sector will be implemented.
The emergence and development of high value-added internet initiatives will be supported. Technical, legal and administrative infrastructures, necessary for the development of internet economy, will be developed. Domestic internet initiatives will be encouraged to expand abroad, particularly in region countries.
Mobile applications, especially games, software, and information technology services, will be supported for development and commercialization of digital content.
Disseminating use of public transportation, small engine volume and electric and hybrid vehicles, establishing smart bike networks in appropriate residential areas and creating pedestrian paths closed to traffic.
Improving the support mechanisms for SMEs on energy efficiency training, studies and consultancy services.
Disseminating energy efficiency investments in public buildings by various financing methods including energy performance contract (EPS) borrowing model that allows debt repayment with savings obtained after project implementation.
Converting the external structures surrounding the buildings and the heating systems in old buildings with low and/ or insufficient insulation to thermally insulated ones, which also meet the current standards
Investing rapidly on the water potential that is not yet utilized to generate electricity when the projects meet the feasibility and environmental criteria Rehabilitation of hydroelectric power plants owned by government.
Determining exact potential of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources for electricity generation and in this regard, accelerating geothermal exploration activities.
Monitoring and evaluating of investment realizations for increasing the electricity generation from non-hydraulic renewable resources.
Mobilizing the current potential for utilization of biomass, geothermal and solar resources for primary energy supply.
Monitoring blending applications of bioethanol and biodiesel fuels with gasoline and diesel fuels in terms of food safety, environmental impacts, and development of the capacity of facilities.
Nowadays, accurate, reliable and timely produced statistical data is very important for communities to see their current economic, social and cultural situation, to make right decisions about ongoing issues, and to make healthy future plans.
In addition to providing service support to public, information is also considered as a strategic resource for societies. Providing necessary information especially for rapid and correct decision making; being open to new ideas, which is necessary in the age of information; establishing a strong statistics and information system infrastructure are important for present and future of Turkey.
Thus, improving the statistical information infrastructure of all institutions, especially the TURKSTAT, taking part in statistical information production; planning, implementation and monitoring of the statistical processes are very important. Increasing the number and quality of the reliable statistics obtained with a participative, collaborative and planned statistical production process by scientific methods will also bring expansion of the statistical range required to be produced in accordance with national and international needs.
In this respect, keeping healthy administrative records, detailing the current statistical data and prioritization of statistics production in line with the needs of economy by the institutions are of utmost importance.
Increasing the number of statistics produced with international standards • Production of statistics on regional level • Integrated and sustainable statistics system • Statistics produced from administrative record systems iii. Performance Indicators • Number of new statistics produced • Punctuality rate of publications according to the Publication Calendar • Number of surveys compiled on electronic environment • Utilization rate of administrative records in production of statistics • Number of statistics produced with standard classification and coding • Number of statistics for which metadata system is established, among statistics produced under the Official Statistic Program • Compliance ratio of statistical subjects and modules evaluated by Eurostat in the context of Statistical Management Information System (SMIS)
Determining the national statistics priority list for providing accurate transfer of resources allocated for statistics production Determining statistics that can be produced in accordance with international standards by considering the needs and priorities of the national and international users • Producing statistics that have great importance for analyzing economic development in national and regional level, such as regional domestic product and domestic product by income components, rather than statistics that are not demanded or of no use.
Increasing the consciousness of collection, production, use and sharing of statistical data in public institutions and organizations • Producing the administrative records by the institutions, using the international classifications and codes • Improving the institutional databases and sharing with TURKSTAT • Improving the administrative record systems in the institutions and organizations taking part in the formal statistics production process, providing technical and informatics consultancy service by TURKSTAT on the subject of standardization of the institutional databases • Developing the systems to be used in transferring the administrative record information to TURKSTAT, which are compiled within the public institutions and organizations and available in the databases to be used in official statistics production process, with the cooperation of TURKSTAT and public institutions and organizations • Establishing statistical analysis units in institutions.
Increasing and enhancing cooperation with international institutions and organizations • Producing reliable, comparable, compatible and consistent statistics by ensuring data integration • Developing methodology and content of statistics and thereby increasing data variety • Producing statistics that international institutions and organizations need • Improving timeliness and punctuality in publication in line with international standards.
e-Government applications and services with high priority were conducted within the framework of Information Society Strategy and Action Plan promulgated in 2006 in the period of Ninth Development Plan. Numerous e-Government projects were carried out within this period. e-Government Gateway was put into practice, approximately 14 million users have registered and nearly 600 services have been integrated to the Gateway by the end of 2012. Address Registry System and Electronic Public Procurement Platform (EKAP) were established; pilot schemes of Central Registry Record System (MERSİS) and Republic of Turkey Identification Card projects were completed and activities for dissemination were launched. In addition to these, application projects were conducted on the areas such as justice, education, health, social security, police and public financial management.
Individual and business use of e-government services has increased; e-Government services for business world have been used more than services for personal use. The satisfaction level of citizens on e-government services has reached to 94.4 percent in 2012.
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