The High Planning Council announced its approval of Strategy and Action Plan (‘‘the Plan’’) of 19 December 2016 for the Software Industry on the 5 January 2017 edition of the Official Gazette.
9 January 2017
By Abdülkadir Güzeloğlu
Recognizing the significance of integrating elements
that constitutes information society into economic and social parameters of
community, the Plan envisages fulfillment of several goals, those including
Industry 4.0, sustainable development of software industry and economy.
Specifically, the Plan aims to create a satisfactory
legal and technical infrastructure in the field of software which is also
supported by competent human resources. In this vein, the Plan ultimately
targets to build an internationally competitive software sector in Turkey with
participation of domestic and non-domestic actors.
More importantly, among four goals that the Plan
states, making necessary legal and administrative regulations holds a vital
position. In detail, subtopics include but not limited to making necessary
amendments in the Law No:4734 on Public Procurement in order to provide
incentives to Turkish software companies, preparing technical terms of
reference for public procurements and identifying legal loopholes and
shortfalls in cybercrime along with tackling them.
After all, in the following two years, it is highly anticipated
that the Plan will give rise to a promising impetus to legal atmosphere that circles
public procurement, criminal matters of cybercrimes along with other relevant
areas of law.
In this regard, should you have any further queries on
public procurement law or legislation on information technologies in Turkey, please
contact us at info@guzeloglu.legal