Information infrastructure appraoch : spatial data infrastructure implementation issues in Turkey
Aydinoglu, Arif Cagdas & Tahsin Yomralioglu
The countries including developing world are in the process to become Information Society (IS) as a part of economic and social development, and trying to use information efficiently on decision making processes and services aimed at citizens. Information Systems (IS) that support information management in concerned working group have been re-conceptualized as Information Infrastructure (II) concept that supports effective and corporate decision making by various institutions in a large user community. In this way, II includes varied technologies, networks, standards for many application areas over time and space. Similar to IS, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) dealing with spatial data can be re-conceptualized as Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) or SIM Infrastructure. Turkey has speeded up her efforts to transform into an information society with eTurkey initiative which is almost identical to eEurope+. After 2003, these actions are combined in e- Transformation Turkey Project that aims at fostering the evolution and coordination of information society activities in a participatory manner, which were previously carried out in a decentralized and uncoordinated manner. As a sub section of this project, the actions devoted to building Turkey National GIS were initiated and activities are continuing towards National SDI vision. SDI Implementation issues in Turkey can be described as II concept. These issues include telecommunication infrastructure and related policies to encourage egovernment, facilities to access and share information, ICT devices and software, technical standards on GIS activities, metadata usage, GI dissemination methods, organizations and policies to coordinate stakeholders related to spatial data. These issues are categorized and examined with the Access Rainbow, a socio-technical architecture and a seven-layer conceptual model of access to II. The aim of this paper is mainly to examine current situation on SDI development in Turkey in respect of the Access Rainbow.
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