Salih Pilav

Turkish Informatics Foundation

Turkish Informatics Foundation has been founded in April 1995. Aiming at "a Turkey that is transformed to information society", Turkish Informatics Foundation - TIF, continuously works for accelerating the process of transforming Turkey into an information society. TIF also continues informing and making all the sections of the public conscious for disseminating the ICT culture to everyone, for increasing the computer literacy, and for providing the necessary infrastructure for information to be freely moved and shared. It is also aimed that the share of ICT investments in the general economy will reach the average EU member countries' and needed information and communication technologies support will be provided for restructuring the government. Working for promoting usage of international quality standards and software development methodologies and tools aong software producing companies, TIF also supports the establishment of technoparks in order to encourage R&D activities in the ICT sector besides creating models for academy-industry cooperation.