Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality takes place in an area of 5343 km² and represents about 13 million citizens.
Main responsibilities of our municipality are briefly;
1. City Development, Environment, Mass Transportation and Investments,
2. Health, Municipal Police services and Fire Brigade,
3. Socio-cultural and economical missions.
2008 budget: $ 12 billion.
Within the framework of ICT PSP 2009 programme, we are looking forward to participating in a consortium for “Objective 3.5: eParticipation, empower and involve citizens in transparent decision-making in the EU” under the “Theme 3: ICT for government and governance”.
Specific goals of Objective 3.5: e-Participation, empower and involve citizens in transparent decision making in the EU:
- Enabling transparent decision and policy making by supporting the drafting of legislative texts for politicians and decision-makers. The piloted solutions should help improve the clarity and understanding of legislative texts and content for non-specialists and in a multi-lingual environment, thus facilitating citizens’ participation in the process.
- Enhancing the direct participation of citizens and civil society in the decision-making process itself, and improving access to relevant content and available options, thus enabling them to interact with decision-makers in real time and concrete contributions.
- Involving citizens in the policy-making process by enhancing social networking capacities, using new intermediation models, creating collaborative input to policy making (e.g. data gathering, sharing collective knowledge, Web 2.0 technologies) thus enabling the provision of policy-making related services by citizens.
Expected Impact
- High level of maturity in the use of ICTs in transparent, participatory and accountable decision-making.
- Demonstrated improvements in policy and decision-making.
- Enhanced citizens’ capacity to participate in EU policy and decisionmaking through wide scale collaboration across EU.
We (Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality) would like to participate- as a partner- in a consortium for ICT for government and governance.
For more information kindly contact:
M. Bugra ERBAS
EU Relations Directorate
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Tel: +90 212 455 19 63
Fax: +90 212 455 26 48
Email: bugra.erbas@ibb.gov.tr
Omer Faruk KALA
EU Relations Directorate
Tel: +90 212 455 19 63
Email: omer.kala@ibb.gov.tr
Web page: http://www.ibb.gov.tr/en-US/Pages/Home_Page.aspx
