WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER
Informatics Industry Association (TÜBİSAD) announced the “Turkey E-Commerce Market Size -2015” report. Being the third one, 2015 report shows that the e-commerce sector reached 24,7 billion TL by 31% annual growth. E-commerce share in total retail (online transactions rate in the total retail market) have been announced as 2.0% in Turkey. Developed countries’ average is stated as 7.1% while the average of developing countries is 5.1%. “Turkey E-Commerce Market Size 2015” press conference meeting hosted TÜBİSAD Chairwoman Kübra Erman Karaca, TÜBİSAD E-Commerce Commission Chairman Burak Ertaş, Interbank Card Center -BKM CEO Soner Canko, Electronic Commerce Managers Association (ETİD) Chairman Orhan Hakan and Deloitte Turkey’s Partner Tolga Yaveroğlu as speakers. “Turkey E-Commerce Market Size -2015” report is prepared by TÜBİSAD with the project partnership of Electronic Commerce Managers Association (ETİD), project management of Deloitte Turkey and project data partnership of ComScore. TÜBİSAD Chairwoman Kübra Erman Karaca stated that e-commerce will reduce recording informality in the economy and create new business branches
E-Commerce volume gets close to 25 billion TL E-Commerce Markets and Growth Rates in Turkey Total Market:
24,7 billion TL - % 31
Vacation - Travel:
8,9 billion - %31
Online Retail:
8,5 billion TL - %32
Multi Channel Retail:
4,8 billion TL - %33
Online Marketplace:
3,8 billion TL - %40
Online Betting:
2,5 billion TL - %22
Online Multiple Categories:
2,2 billion TL - % 28
Online Special Shopping:
1,8 billion TL - %27
Online Vertical:
0,7 Billion TL - %17
Multi Channel Electronics:
1,8 billion TL - %35
Multi Channel Clothing & Shoes:
0,8 billion TL - %25
Multi Channel Home & Decoration:
0,5 billion TL - % 34
Multi Channel Entertainment & Culture: 0,3 billion TL - %27 Multi Channel Other:
and expertise; hence bring dynamism to the numerous sectors. She added: “E-commerce is also a sub-sector that creates new jobs. When e-commerce is considered as a domestic as well as international potential, the development of this sector must be addressed as a priority. The effect of e-commerce on
different sectors, benefits to disadvantaged groups, labor and employment contribution, the impact on the overall functioning of the trade and increasing the total trade capacity forced both the 9th development plan and information society strategy. The size of the domestic market of Turkey and the high young population along
with the increasing per capita consumption expenditure put Turkey among the countries that to invest in electronic commerce. For these investments to be sustainable and continue at an increasing rate, creating a clear and predictable regulatory environment is now an obligation. For the development of e-commerce
1,3 billion TL - %36
in particular, we need a sound legal basis.” TÜBİSAD Board Member, New Media and E-Commerce Commission President Burak Ertaş emphasized on that despite the rapid growth in Turkey’s e-commerce market, the ratio of the e-commerce in the total retail market is only 2% and the growth potential in this area is very high.
‘We must provide an information-based and technology-driven transformation’ Science, Industry and Technology Minister Dr. Faruk Özlü stated that their objective is to form 15% of the export with high technology products in 2023 at the 49th General Assembly of Academy of Sciences Turkey, held on June 4th. In his speech, Minister Özlü highlighted the developments in science and technology and a large number of newly established universities. Özlü informed that; “The number of faculty members in universities has increased and facilities have been improved. Public have increased expenditures for R&D projects in both universities and the private sector. The share of R & D spending in national income has been
doubled. R&D spending ratio in GDP passed the 1% level for the first time in the history of Turkey in 2014.” A ministry structure is formed that specializes in the field of R&D and innovation Minister noted that the work will continue to reach the level if developed countries in economy, democracy and the legal system and added: “As Turkey, we must provide an informationbased and technology-driven transformation to achieve our economic and social goals. We have to do it to create more added values. We aim at forming 15% of the export with high technology
products in 2023. If we succeed in this, our exports may be equal or even more than our imports. To reach these higher goals, we need comprehensive, accurate and refine information related to all aspects of life.” Özlü stated
that it is very important to be able to commercialize the information and universities should contribute both creating theories as well as practical production opportunities. Minister Özlü expressed that forming
the Science, Industry and Technology Ministry was a very important development for Turkey in 2011 and added: “In this way, we have a ministerial structure specializing in the field of R&D and innovation as well as improving the universityindustry collaboration. After I became the ministry, I had the opportunity to see how valuable these projects are. The latest R&D Reform Package entering into force earlier this year has a great importance. On the other hand, scientific thought is not only for the scientists, it is necessary for everyone. It is essential to use science and scientific methods in order to find a solution to any problem.”
Companies’ key to growth: Akademikro
Türkkep and FIT Solutions joined forces Spread very quickly; e-transformation applications allow us to perform official, commercial and legal business electronically much faster and much effectively. In this area, thanks to the cooperation carried out between Türkkep and FIT Solutions, both organizations’ customers will have the opportunity to benefit from the advantages of e-transformation applications and end to end e-transformation services and solution. FIT Solutions and Türkkep’s target is to increase general growth by the end of 2016; in addition, they aim to increase the revenue and the number of customers by at least 25% with the cooperation. Türkkep will be focusing more on individual solutions and services such as KEP, e-signature and e-storage; other e-transformation services such as e-billing, e-book, e-invoices and e-ticket service will be focused on by FIT Solutions. FIT Solutions will be focusing on the e-transformation services it offers; and continue with Türkkep for KEP, e-signature and e-storage services and solutions. Combining expertise
in services and solutions; both organizations will provide the opportunity to offer end to end e-transformation application to customers. Türkkep General Manager Yüksel Samast said: “with our cooperation with FIT Solutions, we will offer our corporate customers more advantageous services and solutions. At the end of 2016, it is expected to have 200 thousand KEP users, 2.5 million e-signatures and more than 100 thousand e-invoice and e-book users. Via this important collaboration, we will offer integrated services to our customers and access quickly to both large companies and SMEs.” In the review of the cooperation agreement; FIT Solutions CEO Koray Gültekin Bahar gave the following statement in his speech: “We believe we will continue to strengthen our cloud solutions, focus our operations abroad especially in Turkic Republics and Middle Eastern countries and globally become one of the most important players in the IT industry shaping technology; thanks to this strategic cooperation with Türkkep.”
MikroSoftware, renewing education platform brand Akademikro and developed a comprehensive test and certification platform with efficient and effective learning process that can be accessed on mobile by its business partners. We talked about Akademikro’s advantages, contributions to the sector and Mikro Software’s latest projects with Mikro Software Deputy General Manager Alpaslan Tomuş. n As a start, can you talk about Akademikro and its history? Our initial starting point was a question that we ask ourselves: “When we hire a staff, how would we prepare the training process?” and saw that such a training platform is needed. After seeing the need, we started to work with Micro Software’s 30 years of knowledge. We removed the ancient “learn by experience”
motto at first and decided to perform this process within a specific curriculum. In short, we believe that a business process needs to catch international standards. n You work with the Enocta for Akademikro. Can you talk about this cooperation? We think that a large audience targeting platforms such as Akademikro should be accessible 7/24. We searched companies giving LMS (Learning Management System) services and interviewed a couple of companies which carry out project on the subject, have training programs and follow new generation technologies. After all these meetings, we have decided to work with Enocta which holds 60% of the LMS market in Turkey. We agreed to publish the education system we developed on the platform provided by the Enocta.
n Can you please mention about the educational content of Akademikro and its contribution to the employees? We believe that you should be able to successfully measure the process in order to manage it well. In this direction, our target is to measure the knowledge of our employees and offer help in the areas that they are weak or open for self-development. After creating content in this direction, we move the content by matching it with competencies to an e-examination environment. Employees who are successful in this examination started to be certified online. With the certificates which are valid for a certain period of time, we aim to keep employees up to date for current technology and innovations through certificate renewal processes.
Polizo received investment from Silicon Valley One of the business projects developed by Kadir Has University iNEO Incubation Center Polizo received investment from String Ventures in Silicon Valley. Polizom Biotechnology Software company founder Serkan Altuntaş is Computational Biology and Bioinformatics master’s program graduate and a PhD student in Computer Engineering. The other partner Teodora Djikic is Kadir Has University Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics
PhD student. This company was founded by two partners and they developed new software accelerating the first 1-2 years of an average of 10 years in drug discovery process with theoretical computer calculations and reduced it to 1-2 months. The customer range of the enterprise which is in closed beta phase, prepared with the help of general purpose graphics processor (GPGPU) technologies; extends from independent researchers to
pharmaceutical companies. The target is to be the most widely used online application on theoretical drug exploration area in the world. Founded on May 2015, in Kadir Has University iNEO TTO Incubation Center with Ministry of Industry Technoenterprise Capital Support, the company has grown with the seed investment received from String Ventures in March 2016 and enlarged the team to 5 people. The team is looking for new members on high performance scientific
Ministry of Justice collecting local and global awards Ministry of Justice Department of Information Technology UYAP Information System (e-National Judicial System) was awarded first prize in the e-Government category in WSIS 2016. UYAP Information System this year was awarded in the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) held on 2-6 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. UYAP Information System passed the preliminary evaluation among 61 projects
competing with each other in
was selected one of the top
the e-government category and
5 projects and finally the best
project by the members of the jury. Ministry of Justice Deputy Undersecretary Mustafa Erol, IT Department Director Servet Gül and IT Manager İlknur Bayrak participated in the WSIS Forum 2016 Awards Ceremony. The first prize was received by the Ministry of Justice Deputy Undersecretary Mustafa Erol at the awards ceremony held in May, 3rd. UYAP had achieved a significant success in April,
as well. Held in Izmir for the 7th time, IDC CIO Turkey Summit 2016 had 63 projects in the competition and after the jury evaluation, 29 of them were competing in the finals. Ministry of Justice IT Department received 5 awards in 3 different categories with their e-Case, Segbis, Law Enforcement Portal projects. Awards were received by IT Department Director Servet Gül.