National Technology Move

Technologically advanced countries and regions in the world gathered their own technological moves together under a certain name against the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Europe is shaping technological transformation strategies with Industry 4.0 in Europe; China with Made in China 2025, and the USA with the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence Technologies. Türkiye named its strategy consisting of 5 main components including “High Technology and Innovation”, “Digital Technology and Transformation”, “Entrepreneurship”, “Human Capital” and “Infrastructure” as the National Technology Initiative within the framework of the fundamental goals available in the roadmap specified in the 2023 Industry and Technology Strategy Plan. In this way, policies regarding the moves to be taken towards technological transformation will be applied as a whole in a harmonious way. Bilişim Vadisi performs its activities with the goal to let Türkiye become fully independent in terms of economy and technology within the framework of the vision of National Technology Move. In this respect, Bilişim Vadisi acts as a bridge to allow Türkiye to transfer its achievements in defense industry to civilian technologies.

“Open Source Platform Türkiye” and “42 Software Schools” which started their activities at Bilişim Vadisi in August 2021 to realize the goal of “Increasing the Software Capacity of Türkiye and Open Source Platform” specified in the Human Capital section included in the 2023 Industry and Technology Strategy Plan, contributed to Turkish natural language processing as a significant step towards reducing licensing costs, lowering foreign-dependency and becoming a strong global leader in software sector.

The National Technology Move bases its strategy on three concepts. These concepts are “indigenous”, which means belonging to a certain area in geographical terms; “national”, which means belonging to a certain nation; and “authenticity”, which means that a product with an intellectual value does not directly include other intellectual outputs but has its own specific intellectual value. TOGG (Automobile Initiative Group of Türkiye) available at Bilişim Vadisi is produced in line with these three concepts and plays a transformative role in the mobility ecosystem. Under mobility sub-heading, it is deemed as one of the important steps of transition to civilian technologies in the light of the National Technology Move, as it supports developments in several civilian technologies such as digital geographical systems, 3-D printing, 5G communication technologies, material technologies and energy technologies.