Key metrics for a healthy planet of the future: Innovation, inclusion, sustainability and resilience

The 30th Ordinary General Assembly meeting of the Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV), which works with the aim of "to demonstrate the signature of these lands to the world with its vision of technology for good.", was held. In his speech at the meeting, TBV Chairman Faruk Eczacıbaşı touched upon the importance of working on models based on future healthy planet metrics such as innovation, inclusivity, sustainability and resilience, and emphasized that they are not alone on this path and that they will act together with like-minded people.

Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV), which carries out studies to contribute to the creation of the necessary infrastructure for Turkey to transform into an information society, to carry out scientific research and development activities, and especially to examine the effects of new technologies on social and economic life, to produce projects together with qualified and respected stakeholders and to ensure their implementation. ) 30th Ordinary General Assembly Meeting was held.

TBV Chairman Faruk Eczacıbaşı, who started his speech by saying "We are holding our 30th general assembly today", touched upon the changes experienced since the beginning of the internet and the innovations brought by technology in his general assembly speech. He described a journey that spanned these 30 years, from the days spent explaining "what" the Internet was, to transformations such as social media, cryptocurrencies, smartphones and especially Large Language Models (LLM). He underlined the importance of Information Communication Technologies and stated that vertical and horizontal information production has increased exponentially, and this combination has revealed the concept of "obscurity".

Eczacıbaşı stated that the industrial period is over and we are in the post-industrial period, but one of the most important elements of the post-industrial period; He emphasized that the place of data in economics and law has not yet been defined. He stated that technological developments have become a part of old stories, but also create new stories, and that there is a generation of managers who are unaware of this transformation.

Speaking about the Paradigm of the Future: Breakthrough and Sustainability Manifesto published by the Turkish Informatics Foundation, Faruk Eczacıbaşı stated that the purpose of publishing the manifesto is to make all these developments part of a story and underlined the need to increase awareness efforts, especially among young people.

He explained the importance of supporting clean data, aiming to find solutions not only to Turkey's problems but also to the common problems of the planet, and the importance of searching for new metrics. Finally, Faruk Eczacıbaşı touched upon the importance of working on models based on future healthy planet metrics such as innovation, inclusiveness, sustainability and resilience, and emphasized that they are not alone on this path and will act together with like-minded people.

TBV Secretary General Çağdaş Ergin explained the activities of the foundation: “Training is one of our main topics. We have been continuing the Technology Developers Program with SAS for about three years. Within the scope of the project, the Workshop on Enriching Academic Education Focusing on Analytics and Artificial Intelligence and other training activities were held for academics working at universities. In addition, we continue to work on reports. Perhaps one of our most popular works last year was our report From Brain Drain to Brain Power. Another of the foundation's activities was the new generation impact investment fund Founder One. The fund, which we realized in cooperation with Maxis and Turkish Entrepreneurship Foundation, invested 2 million 875 thousand dollars in 2023 in startups developing projects in areas such as inclusion, disaster, agriculture, education, health and climate. The average investment size was around 100 thousand dollars. So far, investments in 31 out of 45 investments have been completed. "In addition, the first period of the Workup Gaming program for startups and game studios that produce games for educational purposes has ended."