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133 thousand 930 with an increase of 541 Now, not just the children living in the
percent. In the last decade, the number of big cities of Turkey, but also our children
tourists visiting our harbors exceeded 13.8 in the field of Şırnak, village of Kars and
millions. upland of Trabzon can use internet for
their homework. With our cooperation
with Turkish Ministry of National Education
THE POWER OF OUR AGE (MEB), we initiated FATIH project that will
IS THE IT INDUSTRY free our schools from blackboards and
introduce them with smart boards. With this
While designing our transportation project that is the honor of the IT world, we
infrastructure in line with the needs carry all of our 570 thousand classrooms of
of 21st century, the IT industry that is our 40 thousand schools to the future. We
the engine power of our age gained a remove the blackboards, the books and we
special importance. Because in our age, replace them with tablet computers.
power is reinforced with information
and information technologies, and the To establish the critical infrastructures of
economical welfare is ensured based our country, to generate national solutions
on this power. And the most important that can lead to export by building new
dynamics that left its mark on this age are, products and knowledge in import
no doubt, internet and computer. However, dependent products, we attach great
unfortunately Turkey was a country that importance to R&D works. In this sense,
had an internet infrastructure based on we know that the way of having a stronger
phone lines and thus had an international voice in the international arena and being
delivery speed below 7 GB/second. While more effective in this field passes from
the whole world had broadband internet, increasing the local production rate and
we had an infrastructure at African levels. giving particular importance to research
However we changed this. Because our and development. With this awareness,
goal as a government is a Turkey that is we added special research & development
an information society. While there was no articles for the sector to Electronic
broadband in 2002, today we reached more Communication Law in addition to the
than 20.5 million subscribers and 48 million general R&D Law and, we began allocating
users. At the end of the efforts made, we resources for sectoral R&D activities.
included almost every point in our country Moreover we issued obligations promoting
from east to west, north to south to the R&D and local production in regulations
GSM coverage. And with the Project for and authorizations of Information and
Establishing Mobile Network Infrastructure Communication Technologies Authority
at Settlements Outside GSM Coverage, we (BTK). Besides, we established a R&D fund
are including our entire population into limited only to information technology.
the mobile coverage. Thus we are making Now, we have an annual R&D fund up to
Turkey the only country whose entire 300 million TL.
population is in mobile coverage area.
We put into service e-State that brings
Based on the fact that “information a new breath to the service mentality in
starts at school”, we established broadband Turkey and is a serious step towards being an
internet infrastructure in all of our schools. information society. As of today, we began
Computer technologies classes were providing a total of 758 public services in
founded in 21,000 schools, and computer- various fields ranging from education to
aided science laboratories were founded in health, social security to agriculture to
1,500 Science and Anatolian High Schools. almost 15.2 million users through 105 public

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