Vice President Oktay chaired the “National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Steering Committee Meeting” held at the Presidential Complex. Speaking here, Oktay said they held the first meeting of the steering committee, which they formed to provide high-level coordination of the strategy, on January 13 and decided to prepare the actions that will reveal the implementation details of the strategy.
“DRAFT ACTION PLAN COMPLETED”
Stating that at today’s meeting they will assess the progress they have made in the field of artificial intelligence since the first meeting with all council members, and that they will receive information on research and the ongoing work of council member institutions and organizations, Oktay said. , “Our national artificial intelligence strategy covering the years 2021-2025 revolves around the objective of improving the maturity of our national artificial intelligence ecosystem. The actions related to the strategy have been designed in consultation with the concerned institutions since the first meeting of our board of directors In addition to our concerned institutions, 15 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were contacted for their opinion and a process of designing participatory actions was implemented. framework, a total of 120 actions and actions have been carried out.The draft action plan, which includes 451 implementation steps, has been completed.
“AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PORTAL IN TURKEY WILL BE CREATED”
Listing the important elements among the actions of the “National Artificial Intelligence Strategy”, Oktay said: “A “data governance guide” will be prepared to improve access to quality data and technical infrastructure; the guide will be an accelerator for the use of artificial intelligence technologies in many sectors. To generate value from data in the public sector. In line with the concept of “data fields” adopted by the European Union, a public data space will be created, which will facilitate the execution of data analysis studies and the development of artificial intelligence applications in a controlled environment, allowing data held by public institutions to be processed by d other public institutions. Industry cloud platforms will be created that will facilitate data sharing between private sector companies and accelerate the development of development of value-added applications based on artificial intelligence. training and certification programs will be developed. “Turkey’s Artificial Intelligence Portal” will be created to help develop the national artificial intelligence ecosystem. It will be encouraged to prioritize initiatives in the field of Turkish natural language processing in artificial intelligence and launch national domestic brands that will be open to the global market,” he said.
‘ADVISORY GROUP ON THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ECOSYSTEM’
Noting that they have designed a highly participatory governance mechanism in order to increase the efficiency of the strategy implementation process, Fuat Oktay said: “As part of this, we will form an advisory group on the ecosystem of intelligence in which NGO representatives will participate. evaluate the decisions regarding the establishment of the advisory group at this meeting. In addition, the technical and administrative level will be assessed. Working groups with broad participation will be formed on ‘Technical infrastructure and platforms’, ‘Data governance’, ‘Human resources’, ‘Law and ethics’ and ‘Reliable and accountable artificial intelligence’ to coordinate the Work.Determine the working principles and procedures of the governance mechanism We have prepared the directive ‘Principles and working procedures of the steering committee’ in accordance with the opinions of all the institutions concerned and we will also decide on the directive at this meeting. important duties to our responsible institutions and all stakeholders, including NGOs, for the effective implementation of the “National Strategy Action Plan on Artificial Intelligence”.It is essential that this action plan be implemented with precision so that we take full advantage of the opportunities brought by artificial intelligence technologies. I believe sinc erely that all our institutions and stakeholders will assume their responsibilities in the process of implementing our “Artificial Intelligence Action Plan” in the best possible way. The meeting then continued behind closed doors to the press.