Tülin Akin, Co-Founder of Tabit, founded tarimsalpazarlama.com which is Turkey’s first communication, e-learning and e-commerce site in the agricultural area for farmers, product suppliers and companies. She visited 12,000 villages in order to familiarise farmers with computer and mobile technologies and developed an SMS modelling that aims to improve agricultural yield and profits by providing farmers with advice on crops, weather and market prices. Akin also designed a farmers’ credit card in cooperation with a private bank. She created the idea of the first technology-based smart village in the world which aims to increase the efficiency of production with communication and information technologies and to improve the living standards of rural producers with qualified information by combining traditional agricultural methods with advanced technology. She was awarded as Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year and nominated for the Nobel Prize in the field “Work for Peace”. Furthermore, she was chosenas an Ashoka Fellow in 2012.