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The Kyrgyz handicrafts e-commerce report: rural artisans, the logistics gap, and what contemporary design opened up
A specialised deliverable to ITC alongside the main Kyrgyzstan country research, focused on handicrafts alone — felt, embroidery, ornaments, traditional toys made by rural…
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Seven thousand Etsy shops based in Uzbekistan: what the ITC research found about the most active Central Asian online seller base
The third country deliverable to ITC under the Ready4Trade Central Asia research, this one for Uzbekistan. Twenty thousand Etsy search results for the keyword…
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Salt, mare’s milk, and Kaspi.kz: what the ITC research found about Kazakhstan’s e-commerce stack in 2021
A second country deliverable to ITC under the Ready4Trade Central Asia research, this one for Kazakhstan. A seven-hundred-billion-tenge market, a single domestic super-app worth…
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The Ready4Trade Module 1 workbook: how the curriculum used Tumar Art Group as a running case to teach Central Asian SMEs e-commerce strategy
The supplementary workbook to Sessions 1 through 4 of the Ready4Trade Central Asia national coach training. Forty practical exercises across four sessions. Tumar Art…
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What Kyrgyzstan could sell online in 2021, and why the catalogue had been invisible: notes from the ITC market research
An ITC Ready4Trade desk research deliverable, completed February 2021. Six hundred and sixty-two listings on Etsy for the keyword ‘Kyrgyzstan,’ all of them sold…
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Will a New Entrepreneurial Class Drive CAMCA Economies? — eCAMCA 2021, Panel 4
On 24 June 2021 the American Foreign Policy Council convened Panel 4 of eCAMCA — the virtual edition of the CAMCA Regional Forum —…
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Digital skills development in the Kyrgyz Republic technical working group meeting
On May 28, 2021 the World Bank and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic organized technical working group meeting in…
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Meeting with UNDP Mission on Digital Transformation
On April 26 and April 27, 2021 office of the UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic meeting with the UNDP Mission on Digital Transformation in…
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Training for Yesterday’s Jobs in Tomorrow’s Economy: What Kyrgyzstan’s Young Generation Is Not Being Told
Digital Skills & Kyrgyzstan UNDP Analytical Report — Seven Perspectives Education Youth Business Donors Rural Policy Global South UNDP / August 2020 / Bishkek…
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UNECE Science Technology and Innovation review of the Kyrgyz Republic
UNECE published “Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Gap Analysis – Kyrgyzstan” report prepared by Aziz Soltobaev United Nations ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for…
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Launch of the Central Asian Business Angels
On March 2021, Central Asian Business Angels Public Foundation (ABACA) had been officially registered on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. Last fall, group…
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KG Labs collaborates with KyrgyzPatent on Innovations
Aziz Soltobaev, founder of KG Labs joined National working group under the State Service of Intellectual Property and Innovations under the Kyrgyz Government designed…