ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTED DATA ANALYTICS OFFICE
Innovative Solutions for Izmir's Urban Future
The Artificial Intelligence Supported Data Analytics Office was established within the Izmir Planning Agency (IZPA) to develop innovative and data-driven solutions to urban challenges. The office leverages artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to support Izmir’s transformation into a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive city. Through a data-driven approach to urban planning, it delivers fast, effective, and strategic solutions to emerging challenges. By integrating diverse data sources, the office establishes and continuously enhances a comprehensive data ecosystem to guide Izmir’s future planning initiatives.
Data Access and Transparency
The Artificial Intelligence Supported Data Analytics Office supports open data and free software endeavours to make data accessible, transparent and actionable. In this way, local governments, citizens and other stakeholders can make data-driven decisions. In addition, the office contributes to the realisation of innovative and effective policies for urban problems by developing strategic decision support systems. In line with agile governance principles, the office's projects are designed to be flexible enough to respond quickly to real-time urban problems.
Core Principles: Inclusiveness, Ethics and Collaboration
The office is guided by core principles of inclusiveness, ethical values, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Inclusiveness ensures broad public access to data, while ethical standards prioritize equality and data security. Aligned with these principles, the office’s data analysis processes are designed to maximize social benefit.
Proactive Service and Predictive Spatial Analyses
The office develops mechanisms such as city dashboards using open source software, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics tools. In this way, proactive service delivery in city management is ensured and potential problems are identified in advance and effective solutions are produced. With predictive spatial analyses, future trends and scenarios are determined in advance, thus achieving more successful results in urban planning processes.
Data Integration and Enrichment
The data management process starts with data integration. Data collected from different sources are brought together in a coherent and harmonised structure. Then, with the data enrichment phase, the data is made more in-depth analysable. This enriched data provides decision-makers with comprehensive and meaningful outputs and is shared in a transparent and accessible way.
Visualisation of Complex Data
Finally, the data visualisation stage presents complex data sets in visual and understandable formats. This approach facilitates the utilisation of data by all stakeholders and contributes to Izmir taking important steps towards becoming a smart city.
The AI Supported Data Analytics Office plays a critical role in Izmir's goal of becoming a smart, sustainable and inclusive city. By increasing data-driven management capacity, it ensures that the city is better prepared for the challenges it may face in the future and guides Izmir's urban development process.