e-Transformation Turkey Project

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to share the action plan developed for the implementation of eEurope+ in Turkey. The paper will cover the new Telecommunication law, and other law orders in all segments of telecommunications services market like electronic signature law, information obtaining rights law, protection of personal data law, etc. in Turkey. The information security and security test standards and their implementation in Turkey are also going to be presented.

Turkey has participated in eEurope+ Initiative with other European Union (EU) candidate countries in June 2001. e-Transformation Turkey Project was launched as part of Turkey’s commitment to join the European Union and, in particular, to leverage Turkey’s potential to become an important player in the global arena.

In the scope of the objective declared above, new Telecommunication law, secondary telecommunication legislation, electronic signature law, information obtaining rights law, protection of personal data law, intellectual property rights law about protection of rights on electronic media, secondary legislation regarding consumers protection law, decree for adoption of European convention on conditional access will be covered as well as with the topics of: Implementation of security test standards, e-tariff project, responsible institutions for e-Transformation Turkey Project and their strucures and rolles.

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