Concerning the works and operations conducted by our Ministry within the National Geographic Information System, to determine the general principles on the issues of, providing training for the staff of the Ministry that will be planned to work about Geographic Information Systems, developing joint projects about technological and academic issues and providing academic and technical consultancy about duties of the General Directorate of Geographic Information Systems; cooperation protocol with Eskişehir Anadolu University took place with the participation of our Undersecretary Ercan TIRAŞ on June 20, 2013.
In our country, about geographic information technologies and management systems which helps to public and private organizations in the decision-making processes; the lack of personnel who are well-informed about the basic principles of data management, strategies and techniques, having analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills is felt.
For these reasons, there is a need for the preparation of the relevant standards and qualifications by the Vocational Qualifications Authority as soon as possible. For this purpose, the pre-application which is made with Eskişehir Anadolu University to prepare GIS Expert and GIS Operator occupational standards and qualifications; was accepted by the Board of Management of VQA dated June 12, 2013.
Regarding the establishing of the professional standards with Anadolu University Personnel Certification Unit, necessary joint studies will be performed between Anadolu University Earth and Space Sciences Research Institute and Geographical Information Systems related academic units related to geographic information systems , vocational training seminars will be held on the issue and consulting services will be received.