Certificates were presented to 31 public informatics managers who successfully completed the "Digital Transformation Leaders Development Program," conducted in collaboration between the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey's Digital Transformation Office and TÜBİTAK TÜSSİDE, between January and April 2023.

The certificates were awarded during a ceremony held on May 10th at the Presidential Complex Exhibition Hall. After the opening speech by Dr. Ali Taha KOÇ, the President of the Republic of Turkey's Digital Transformation Office, the participants were presented with their certificates and badges. The program was attended by İsmail DOĞAN, Director of TÜBİTAK TÜSSİDE, and Ali DOĞAN, Deputy Director.

The "Digital Transformation Leaders Development Program" aimed to convey global trends in the field of digital transformation to informatics managers working in public institutions, provide the necessary standards, methods, and practical applications of new-generation digital technologies for better planning and management of digital transformation processes in the public sector.

In this context, the comprehensive curriculum of the training program, consisting of 14 modules, covered various topics such as IT governance standards and enterprise architecture, migration to software ecosystems and open-source systems, managing data and data privacy in digital transformation, data centers, cloud computing, and big data architecture, new-generation technologies and public applications, business process management (BPM), and robotic process automation (RPA) solutions. Additionally, participants carried out fieldwork for their own institutions as part of the Strategic Management and Digital Maturity Analysis - Case Study, to reinforce the topics they learned throughout the training program.