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Mountain Future Award 2025 — Notes from FAO Rome on a Kyrgyz climate-monitoring project
On 11 December 2025, at the head office of the Mountain Partnership inside the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome,…
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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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Score Up, Posture Open: Reading Past Kyrgyzstan’s Global Cybersecurity Index
On the headline number, Kyrgyzstan’s cybersecurity has measurably improved. The country’s score on the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) rose from 49.64 in 2020…
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Back at the pole of cold: testing the kit at minus eight on the Chatyr-Kul shore
In Kyrgyzstan’s Ak-Sai valley, in Naryn oblast, temperatures have been recorded as low as minus forty-eight and a half degrees Celsius. That is the…
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After the Access Question: Where Kyrgyzstan’s Real Digital Gap Lives
The most useful thing to say about the digital divide in Kyrgyzstan in 2025 is also the most awkward to fit on a policy…
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Obirdability
Obirdability is a KG Labs research initiative, launched October 2025, to build an open Kyrgyzstan-focused bird identification system using edge AI devices, machine learning,…
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Community Signal
The Community Signal — Q3 2025 AI-сообщество Кыргызстана. июль — сентябрь 2025. Третий квартал 2025 года — это, по совокупности признаков, самый важный для…
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Programmes Without a Yardstick: Digital Skills in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan has been running national digital skills programmes for almost a decade. They have names that change with each administration — Taza Koom, Sanarip…
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Cheaper at the End of the Pipe: Why Mobile Data Costs Less in Kyrgyzstan Than in the Country It Transits Through
One of the more useful observations to come out of working at the country’s transit and exchange layer is also one of the most…
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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 perspectives to foster meaningful AI adoption. The piece carried…
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The Layer You Don’t See: Notes from Inside Kyrgyzstan’s Internet Backbone
Most conversations about connectivity in Kyrgyzstan happen at the household level — bars on a phone, the price of a monthly plan, whether a…
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Ten days in the Pan-Third Pole: installing sensors at Chatyr-Kul, Son-Kol, and Ak-Sai
The world has the North Pole and the South Pole. It also has a Third Pole — the group of regions with extreme cryosphere…