Archive
Category: Research And Evidence
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What the Report Recommended, and What the Pandemic Settled
A friend who works at one of the larger HTP-resident outsourcing companies sent me a message in April 2020. It was three weeks into…
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Three Sub-Sectors at Zero: Hardware, Game Development, and E-sports in Kyrgyzstan, 2019
There are three sub-sectors in the original report that we ended up describing in fewer pages than the others, not because they were less…
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Animation: The Sub-Sector We Almost Didn’t Include
In February 2019, halfway through the research, we got a piece of data from the High Technology Park that changed the structure of the…
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E-commerce: Where the Women’s Jobs Are, and What the Banking System Won’t Let Them Do
When we asked one of the e-commerce operators we interviewed — she ran a small online store from a converted spare room in her…
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Software Publishing: The Sub-Sector Most Outsourcing Firms Are Quietly Trying to Become
One of the in-depth interviews ran a quiet contradiction past us that took a few minutes to register. The founder was describing a software-publishing…
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Software Development Outsourcing: 2,000 People, 505 Firms, 93% in Bishkek
In one of the in-depth interviews — the company is the kind that wants to be named only as “a Bishkek outsourcing firm with…
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Eight Problems Every IT Sub-Sector Named: Cross-Sector Findings from the 2019 USAID Study
In Jalal-Abad, in late January 2019, the focus group ran for almost three hours. We had budgeted ninety minutes. The reason it overran was…
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Counting the IT Sector: What KG Labs Found for USAID — Series Opener
In a focus-group room in Karakol in February 2019, the discussion was supposed to be about the labour market. It became, very quickly, about…
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Osh City ICT Development Roadmap 2019-2024: From Infrastructure to Digital Economy
On November 6, 2019, the Osh ICT Development Roadmap 2019–2024 was published. The report was researched and written by Aziz Soltobaev, engaged as an…
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Creative Economy in Kyrgyzstan: What the Research Shows
The phrase “creative economy” arrived in Kyrgyz public conversation in the mid-2010s mostly as imported vocabulary, and for the first few years it travelled…
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An Industry of Individuals: What the ICT Enterprise Registry Reveals About Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Economy
As of January 2018, the Kyrgyzstan National Statistics Committee registry counted 7,522 entities engaged in ICT-related activity across the country. That number — extracted…
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Fifteen Universities, Four Thousand Students: The IT Education Landscape in Kyrgyzstan
In 2016, the Presidential Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic — the institution that trains civil servants and government managers — opened a master’s program…