National Information System and Statistical Infrastructure Development Project Management Summary

2. Project Objectives

In their most succinct form, the working objectives of the SIS informatics project are the following:

to determine the existing data inventory of common data of the public organizations and to specify the major information requirements of the decision makers of the public organizations and some private organizations;
to improve the underlying statistical production processes within SIS by the judicious application of information technology and related data collection methods;
to provide for the construction of an on-line dissemination service for statistical information products, based on SIS information resources and data acquired from or inter-linked to other governmental and international agencies; and
to improve the infrastructure support within SIS for both production and dissemination by the transfer of technology in the areas of staff training, strategic planning, project management, and system development techniques and practices.

These objectives serve to highlight the information needs in Turkey and emphasize the need to disseminate existing and evolving information resources to public and private organizations and individuals in order to ensure Turkey's economic development in the increasingly competitive global market. These objectives imply the need for a modern electronic network and a supporting information technology infrastructure that would enable information producers, such as SIS, to gather, analyze and prepare high quality data and information in a timely fashion.

Within SIS, there is a stated requirement to both establish a network host, and prepare on-line databases for dissemination to other government organizations and to the public. This will require expanded internal data networks, improved support systems, expanded office automation and other system and operational support developments, including standardized development methods and controls to ensure data confidentiality and security.

The feasibility and cost benefit study was conducted to verify and determine the characteristics of these needs and functional requirements, to establish the parameters for possible solutions, to estimate the costs, and to evaluate benefits that will be realized from implementing the solutions. There were no general assumptions or constraints in conducting the study. The goal was to review as many of the activities of SIS as possible.