The Informatics Foundation of Turkey has published a report on how brain drain from Turkey can benefit the country. to support an important research on how it can be used. Prof. Ufuk Akçiğit, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago led team has been working on "Brain Drain to Brain Drain" for 2 years. Power: An Analysis of Turkish Scientists Abroad" a serious database will be created.

Turkey The Informatics Foundation of Turkey (TBV), which works to transform Turkey into an information society, Brain drain from Turkey under scrutiny. University of Chicago The team, led by Prof. Ufuk Akçiğit, Lecturer at the Department of "From Brain Drain to Brain Power: Brain Drain to Brain Power. Analysis of Turkish Scientists" research on brain drain from Turkey and their suggestions on how to use it for the benefit of the country is preparing to go public. First report on the research in 2 months that they plan to publish it within the year, Ufuk Akçiğit said, "The biggest our goal is to make this work sustainable and transform it into a research institute. to evolve. The biggest thing is to create brain power by employing young people in this institute. my dream," he said.

TBV President Faruk Eczacıbaşı, TBV Secretary General Çağdaş Ergin and Prof. Ufuk Akçiğit gave information about the foundation's activities and the research on brain drain. Speaking at the chat meeting, Akçiğit emphasized that the only way to grow Turkey in the long term is to trigger innovation and technology. Akçiğit said, "We need to analyze Turkey's data one by one and understand what problems these lands have. We need to learn about the human capital of companies, the problems underlying universities and organize policies accordingly. We need to work on a data-based basis. This is one of the things TBV is trying to say the most. We have world-class people. We need to question how we can benefit from them."

"We aim to make data accessible"
Saying that it is difficult to find data in Turkey, Akçiğit continued as follows: "So we decided to create our own data. We established our team in Turkey with the support of TBV. In our project 'From Brain Drain to Brain Power: Analysis of Turkish Scientists Abroad' project, we are using machine learning to reveal all the networks. Our goal is to upload the data we obtain to a website and make it accessible. We paid 80 thousand dollars to get the data of all academic publications in the world and downloaded a giant data set from the internet. We determined that there are 365 thousand Turkish researchers in the world. 70 percent of the researchers are men and 30 percent are women. 11,200 of these researchers are abroad. There are many Turkish academics in the USA. While many went to Germany between 2000-2010, we see an increase in the number of those going to Australia between 2010-2020. There has been an increase in the migration of Turkish researchers abroad after 2013, even doubling after 2016. We need to look more globally in academia. If we turn our backs on the scientific structure in the world and do not benefit from it, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot.

'Technology for Good' activities will continue
TBV President Faruk Eczacıbaşı stated that the foundation will work towards a healthy future for the world and that they are developing projects based on data. Emphasizing that TBV continues to work in line with its Tech For Good vision, Eczacıbaşı continued as follows: "We call this good technologies. We must undertake projects that serve the good of Turkey, our society and our planet. For this, we need new models and practices. As TBV, our goal is to work towards a healthy future for our world and to ensure that our country has its signature in this story. We will develop all our projects based on data. We will work to be a part of networks that conduct similar studies at European Union standards." Eczacıbaşı also made the following assessment about brain drain: "There is an issue that we have all been crying about recently: Brain drain. Brains are leaving Turkey... In a world where borders have lost their sharpness, is brain drain really bad? From a future perspective, perhaps not. Brain drain or brain power? We set out to see how we can create a model. I hope our research will lead the way in areas such as law, education and governance."