The Treasury said on Monday it had secured135 million euros in funds from the World Bank for a digital mapping project to update its land registry system. The Treasury said in a written statement that work on the project had already commenced, noting also that the World Bank had provided the loan for the financing of the Land Registry and Cadastre Modernization Project, to be implemented by the Land Registry and Cadastre Agency (TKGM) and Ministry of Public Works and Settlement.
Weiterlesen: Turkey: Registry modernization for land under way
"The Project constitutes a next generation of Bank operations in the area of land management and cadastre, where the country already has a well functioning property rights regime, but is striving to take the land registry and cadastre data use to the next level by spreading its benefits to people, businesses and multiple sectors, and facilitating better access to real estate information through the e-government platform,” said Wael Zakout, Sector Manager and Task Team Leader for the Project. “This project will also help improve customer service by reducing the time taken to register a property transaction to a few hours, and develop property appraisal function in line with international standards.”
Weiterlesen: Turkey Partners with World Bank for Modernization of Land Management Systems
Rating nations on a scale from 0 to 100, the study concluded that South Korea offers the best e-government services, maintaining its place from last year, with a score of 74.9 percent. Though 27th on the list last year, Turkey climbed to eighth spot this time around.
With the rapid expansion of e-commerce, just about everything, from concert tickets to holiday home rentals are just a click away. E-commerce in Turkey swelled from $15 million to $200 million in just seven years. Hoping to hit $1 billion by 2008, the market has started to attract the attention of foreign investors interested in purchasing or partnering with well-known Internet sites.
With the e-government project undertaken by the State Planning Organization (DPT), public organizations are starting to make the Internet part of their lives. Now citizens can conduct their official transactions over the Internet, ending the era of red tape in bureaucracy.