The government’s social media legions are waging a war The news of the government’s social media legions hit the news outlets about a month ago. When I heard about it I really didn’t care about it as much as…

The government is very innovative The Turkish government is really innovative on many fronts. I really like some of the results of the innovative attitude, but some are really difficult to accept. In recent weeks, the focus of the…

Do teknoparks deliver what they promise? The Teknopark system in Turkey had been designed to support the technology producers as much as possible. Some of the major companies, as well as startups, find it very useful to be…

Mastercard or Harvard? In the good old times in order to get to know society you had to do extensive field research. Nowadays it is only enough to look at how people spend money via credit cards. Therefore in…

Non-tolerance is bad for innovation When people ask me about the major advantages and problems of Turkey, I answer to the best of my ability. I say that the young population that is very eager for new technologies…

Tomorrow is now It is really interesting to see how the concept of technology exhibitions and summits is changing. The past weeks were filled with all sorts of technology events from the ICT Summit to Webit. After the industry’s…

Health care is going digital in 5 years For decades, Turkish governments have wanted to utilize e-governance. With the AKP administration, this process has been hastened, as more of the budget has been allocated to digitize public works.However, money…

Leading the censorship race As people make moves to become more digitized, politicians panic and want to impose strict rules and regulations not to lose control over society. I believe politicians around the world all see the internet as…

High-tech industries and Turkey It is common knowledge that Turkish people like to use high-tech products, be it a smart phone or a vehicle. A foreigner could be puzzled by the front pages of Turkish newspapers at times…

TÜSİAD and TÜBİSAD point to ICT Two of the major business NGOs of Turkey organized a joint conference last week. The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and the Informatics Industry Association (TÜBİSAD) underlined the importance of information…