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National Strategy on Digital Skills and Competencies
Aziz Soltobaev had prepared Analytical report on current and future needs and goals in digital skills with draft proposal of the National Strategy on…
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KG Labs participate in update of the Law “On Innovations”
On February 4, 2021, by the decree №35 issued by the Head of the State Service of Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Kyrgyz…
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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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National ecommerce strategy working group
Aziz Soltobaev joined ecommerce strategy working group under the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic in order to help create electronic commerce development…
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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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UNECE webinar on Science, Technology and Innovation gap assessment of SPECA member countries
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is organising a webinar on “ Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) gap assessment of SPECA member countries:…
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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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Central Asia as a digital hub of Eurasia
On September 15-16, 2020, Strategeast organized Second IT Eurasian Forum held Tbilisi, Georgia. The 2nd StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum had gathered together…