Determination of the Urban Information System Standard Project Information and Promotion Meeting has held in the meeting room of our Ministry on July 28, 2011 by the participation of Deputy Undersecretary Mehmet Ali KAHRAMAN.
Project that aims to provide the execution of the Urban Information Systems based on standard policies and procedures, have been started by an executive team from broad participation of university's various units that TÜRKSAT A.Ş. is the Contractor and İSTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY is the Sub-contractor of the project. In order to ensure a participatory manner with the execution of the project, a steering and monitoring group was established consisting of representatives from Konya Provincial Special Administration, Denizli Provincial Special Administration, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Konya Metropolitan Municipality, Denizli Municipality, Maraş Municipality, Fatih Municipality, Pendik Municipality, Alanya Municipality, Etimesgut Municipality, İstanbul Water and Sewerage Administration, İstanbul Gas Distribution Company, The Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre, İller Bankası AŞ and Union of Municipalities of Turkey. Promotional and informational meeting was held in conference hall of our Ministry on July 28, 2011. The meeting has the distinction of being the first meeting of the Steering and Monitoring Group and the aim of the project and information about the process and stakeholders to be shared, forms of analysis to be done in institutions and the methods of analysis are discussed in the meeting.
In the meeting that was started with the opening speech of Deputy Undersecretary Mehmet Ali KAHRAMAN, firstly Head of the Department of Implementation and Coordination of our General Directorate Süleyman Salih BİRHAN made his presentation in which the aim of the project, the process and work packages was introduced. Following this presentation from the Contractor Istanbul Technical University, Prof. Dr. Tahsin YOMRALIOĞLU has presented the current stage of the project. Later opinions on the project and recommendations were listened from all of the participating project partners to the meeting. Participating stakeholders mentioned that the said project fills a significant gap and it will make important contributions in solving the problems created by undetermined standards related to urban information systems.
In addition, they mentioned that they are ready to provide every kind of support for the analyzes to be made in their institutions and the importance of interviews that would be done face to-face with corporate executives and employees of analysis for obtaining positive and detailed results.