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Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge AI for Environmental and Radiation Sensing — Bishkek
Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge AI for Environmental and Radiation Sensing — Bishkek The Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge Artificial Intelligence for Environmental and…
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What Happens at Sary-Chelek When the Road Closes
Sary-Chelek Lake sits above 2,000 metres in the Tian Shan foothills of western Kyrgyzstan, inside a biosphere reserve that ornithologists consider one of the…
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The 3-Year DPI Acceleration Model
Digital Public Infrastructure is now central to fiscal efficiency, inclusion, and state capacity across emerging markets. Yet many programs take five to ten years…
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What the Mobile-First Argument Looks Like From Bishkek
What the Mobile-First Argument Looks Like From Bishkek The mobile-first framing for Central Asia did not start as a thesis. It started as a…
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What the Mountain Already Knows
In the Naryn valley, the river color is the signal. Communities upstream of the high-altitude lakes have read it for generations — when the…
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What’s Plumbed In, and What Isn’t: Reading Tunduk’s 2024 Monitoring Data
In 2016 and 2017, sitting first as a public adviser in the Presidential Administration and then in the Office of the Prime Minister, I…
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The Power of Context: Microsoft Features the Fellowship Voices
The Power of Context: Microsoft Features the Fellowship Voices On 16 September 2025, Microsoft’s Corporate Responsibility site published The power of context: Embracing global…
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Kyrgyzstan’s State of Egovernment
Series: Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Landscape: Evidence from the FieldRead: 6 minTags: `e-government`, `digital government`, `Tunduk`, `Digital Codex`, `Digital Kyrgyzstan`, `open data`, `Kyrgyzstan`, `DECA` Key Takeaways…
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Geopolitical Implications of AI Models in the CAMCA Region — Plenary at the CAMCA Regional Forum, Ulaanbaatar
Geopolitical Implications of AI Models in the CAMCA Region — Plenary at the CAMCA Regional Forum, Ulaanbaatar From 18 to 21 June 2025, the…
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What the Mountain Already Knows
In the Naryn valley, the river color is the signal. Communities upstream of the high-altitude lakes have read it for generations — when the…
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Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Landscape: Evidence from the Field
Series: Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Landscape: Evidence from the FieldRead: 7 minTags: `digital skills`, `digital literacy`, `education`, `teachers`, `ICT competency`, `Kyrgyzstan`, `DECA`, `UNESCO` Key Takeaways Kyrgyzstan…
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Teaching Responsible AI in Russian: Notes from the ICNL Training, July 2024
Teaching Responsible AI in Russian: Notes from the ICNL Training, July 2024 On July 3 and 4, 2024, KG Labs delivered an intensive two-day…
Digital Transformation
DPI, e-government, and the rails of a modern public sector.
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The 3-Year DPI Acceleration Model
Digital Public Infrastructure is now central to fiscal efficiency, inclusion, and state capacity across emerging markets. Yet many programs take five to ten years…
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What the Mobile-First Argument Looks Like From Bishkek
What the Mobile-First Argument Looks Like From Bishkek The mobile-first framing for Central Asia did not start as a thesis. It started as a…
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What the Mountain Already Knows
In the Naryn valley, the river color is the signal. Communities upstream of the high-altitude lakes have read it for generations — when the…
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EdgeAI, TinyML, and climate resilience in mountain ecologies.
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What Happens at Sary-Chelek When the Road Closes
Sary-Chelek Lake sits above 2,000 metres in the Tian Shan foothills of western Kyrgyzstan, inside a biosphere reserve that ornithologists consider one of the…
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What the Mountain Already Knows
In the Naryn valley, the river color is the signal. Communities upstream of the high-altitude lakes have read it for generations — when the…
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Developing technical details of AI Natural Disaster Forecasting Model based on IoT data
On November 3, 2024, during the vibrant backdrop of the Istanbul marathon, a significant workshop was held at the Museum of Modern Arts in…
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EdgeAI for Climate Resilience — What Happens at Sary-Chelek When the Road Closes
Field study from Sary-Chelek, Chatyr-Köl, and Son-Köl on TinyML, camera traps, and climate monitoring at altitude. Published April 2026.
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