Is Istanbul a smart city? Last Friday I had the opportunity to do a radio interview with IBM’s Business Development Executive Esra Çizmeci Yetkin about smart cities. Previously I had the pleasure of discussing the very same…

Is entrepreneurship a trend to stay? Last weekend in Antalya there were more Turkish Internet investors than in any other place, with Etohum holding its startup camp in Rixos, Antalya. Etohum is the most important marketplace, consisting of…

Private information? The establishment of the civil registries dates back to the first population census conducted in 1904 during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The proclamation of the Republic of Turkish in 1923, however, brought significant changes…

Conflict Management 101 The Turkish telecommunications industry is one of the few that can create global innovations. The rate of innovation is especially high in banking applications and the infotainment business. Due to this fact and the…

Is this the end for reliable sources of information? The 244-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica will be going out of print this year. It was the company’s tradition to print a new set once in every two years, but…

Our money is being wasted on filtering the net I value the insight that is provided by institutions like Reporters Without Borders. They tend to have a universal set of values and those values tend to match with those…

The dark side of the banks The Turkish banking system is the main pillar on which the Turkish economy rests. The durability of the banks has been tested over and over again, and they all passed all kinds…

What is happening around us? Turkey has been known as the melting pot of different cultures for centuries. These days it is also being increasingly dubbed the melting point of different economies. There are investors from various countries…

A most successful NGO One of the puzzling things about the Turkish ICT industry is the number of nongovernmental organizations in the field. There are probably around 35 NGOs working on various fields in the ICT world.…

It is springtime for TeliaSonera The company name TeliaSonera was not known to many in Turkey until their dispute with Çukurova Group. Lately they are making international news with strategic acts of putting their house in order. The…