Smart cities are getting smarter citizens produce for their own cities will be evaluated by TBV experts and sent to related municipalities. The municipalities will be able to get ideas from this platform. M. Sinan Kızıldağ, Vice President of Vodafone Turkey Executive Committee, noted that all public institutions, especially municipalities, should be digitalized, said:
Vodafone launched Turkey’s first “Smart Cities Online Platform” after the “Smart City Roadmap Report”. With the support of Deloitte Turkey and Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV), via the platform accessed through www.sehirsizin.com website, it is aimed to take the views of individuals in the process of creating smart cities. The
needs and expectations of citizens will be monitored more systematically with this platform that will enhance communication between citizens and the municipality Citizens will be able to speak about the city they live in and they will be able to support the transformation by sharing ideas and suggestions on the site. Opinions that
Basistek aims at increasing the growth rate In 2016, Basistek, which has grown over expectations, accelerates its investments in line with 2017 targets. Basistek will invest in Information Management & Governance, Big Data and Enterprise Security products as well as IT infrastructure management products. By adding Ali Doğru, Elif Serttaş and Tuba Ergün to its team, Basistek also increases the number of business partners. In 2017, Basistek, which will continue its services under the Protection of Personal Data Act No. 6698, gives priority to companies in ensuring information security at a high level. Considering the growing need in this field, the company accelerates consultancy activities in the field of information security. Basistek, which has expanded its staff in this direction, aims to move the company to a new level in 2017. The company aims to meet the needs of companies in the fields as one of the most important components of the Information Security Operations Center concept:
“With increased population, local managers who manage a complex network of very different people, expected services and aging infrastructure are looking for more effective ways to analyze data in cities, predict problems and coordinate resources. In this direction, our municipalities have the ‘Smart Cities Online Platform’ after the ‘Smart City Road Map’ which will enable them
to speed up the process of smart urbanization. With this platform, it is possible to take the opinions of individuals and determine their needs map and create appropriate solutions. Through the platform, we want to actualize solutions with our business partners as a system integrator, bringing all parties together in smart urbanization and adapting to the demands and needs of our citizens and making their lives easier through these solutions.” With the “Smart Cities Online Platform”, citizens can have their voices heard by the municipalities. The platform, where the citizens present their ideas and communicate with the relevant channels, will meet the citizens and provide them with the best quality services
by following the requests and expectations. With the sehirsizin.com platform, which has a separate page for each province, Smart City Road maps will be prepared for all municipalities to see ideas for their cities. A user who visits the “Smart Cities Online Platform”, which is open to everyone and free to use, can review content and participate in surveys after selecting a city. The user who is a member of the Platform can take advantage of functions like liking, commenting, writing ideas or problems. Successful opinion holders are rewarded when the problem shared by the user, the solution proposals and ideas are examined and then communicated to the experts and then to the relevant institutions.
Young people are taking up professions
Information Security Registration and Event Management, one of the most important issue in terms of protection of confidential data: Data Security and an important concept for reducing the weaknesses that may arise in developed applications: Application Security and Secure Code Development. The storage and protection of big data, which are parts of Basistek’s services, enable analysis, management and classification of information through product advisory services at the HewlettPackard Enterprise IM&G solution family. Unlike conventional monitoring methods with big data analysis, the company is also gathering information that is not considered as a problem. That is, it can analyze not only the alarm data generated in certain conditions, but also the big amounts of data such as systems related to each other, standard logs, work service relations.
Teleperformance, a call center service provider, and İşkur Uşak City Directorate have allied to offer employment opportunities. The protocol was signed in Uşak on February 9th, by Korhan Göksu, the Deputy Director of the Human Resources of Teleperformance Turkey, and İlhan Temel, İşkur Uşak City Manager. Speaking at the event, the Deputy Director of the Human Resources of Teleperformance Turkey, Korhan Göksu remarked on Uşak’s role in these longterm investments in Turkey: “We offer theoretical and
practical personnel training programs in order to offer an international career opportunity to our young people together with İşkur Uşak City Directorate since 2010 in our Uşak location, opened in 2007. Our trainings include concepts of public relations, communication processes and types, communication with telephone, public speaking, computer usage, customer satisfaction, customer relations and effective communication with the customer. Only in Uşak, with the training of Teleperformance,
since 2014, jobs have been created for more than 1,600 people and nearly 1,200 people joined Teleperformance. We are planning to expand the scope of our trainings this year and offer jobs for 400 people according to the protocol. We started training with 60 people in two groups and started our hiring process for 2017. These people will be trained as customer service specialist / assistant with onthe-job training program. In the coming period, we will continue to increase these training programs.”