Archive
Category: Research And Evidence
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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…
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Mapping Kyrgyzstan’s ICT Talent Pipeline: Supply, Demand, and the Gap Between Them
In late 2018, KG Labs commissioned a structured survey of Kyrgyzstan’s ICT education landscape and cross-referenced it against a decade of enterprise registry data…
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KG Labs Meets Mercator Fellows on International Affairs, May 2018
On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at Ololohaus in central Bishkek, Aziz Soltobaev and Talant Sultanov sat down with the Mercator Fellows on International Affairs…