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Category: Tourism And Creative Economy
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Creative Spark in Kyrgyzstan, 2019: British Council, AUCA, and the Big Idea Challenge
In late October 2018, the results of a British Council funding round were announced for the Creative Spark Higher Education Enterprise Programme — a…
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Revolution of Culture, March–April 2019: 87 Events, No Organiser, No Sponsors
In the first week of February 2019, a manifesto appeared under the title “Revolution of Culture” — two pages, drafted in Bishkek, calling for…
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Creative Business Cup Kyrgyzstan 2018: From Panel to Pitch to National Champion
On the evening of September 6, 2018, at Loft Tseh in Bishkek, the National Final of the Creative Business Cup 2018 — Kyrgyzstan ran…
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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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Travel and Tourism Hackathon 2016: From Ideation to Pitching
From the evening of Friday, December 2, 2016, to Sunday evening, December 4, around twenty teams worked nearly without sleep across two Bishkek venues…
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Destination Kyrgyzstan: A Digital Media Strategy for a Country Losing the Search Results
In March 2015, KG Labs chairman Aziz Soltobaev presented a digital media strategy proposal to the secretariat of the World Nomad Games —…