Category: Advocate for Community
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Year 2015 Interim report
Since its founding, KG Labs has been an active participant in the startup and entrepreneurial community in the Bishkek area. In just six months the foundation created multiple domestic and international partnerships, was invited into international communities and networks including Startup Grind, Startup Nations, the Global Entrepreneurship Network, and others. KG Labs is currently finalizing…
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KG Labs and The Pitch Winner attended Startup Nations Summit
In December 2015, KG Labs Director Emily Youatt traveled to the Startup Nations Summit in Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico as Kyrgyzstan’s delegate, with funding from INADEM Mexico, to discuss local and national policy challenges and success stories with delegates from over 80 countries around the world, and to connect with the global startup community.…
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KG Labs participated in CARFON Project workshop
The full-day workshop will provide the opportunity to review main concepts, components, and key Smart Nation’s enablers using international case studies, with the focus on Singapore; and to discuss the formation of the ICT enabling environment and priorities of Digital Kyrgyzstan. The workshop also features a presentation of the CARFON Project that aims at the…
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Interview for Prosto
На этой неделе мы рассказали про деятельность общественного фонда KG Labs в передаче Просто в интервью с Артуром Зотовым. Вы можете просмотреть видео по ссылке:
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НИСИ старается внести свою лепту в понимание, что будущее Кыргызстана за новыми технологиями, за экономикой знаний
Т.Султанов: НИСИ старается внести свою лепту в понимание, что будущее Кыргызстана за новыми технологиями, за экономикой знаний НИСИ старается внести свою лепту в понимание, что будущееКыргызстана за новыми технологиями, за экономикой знаний. Об этом 16 сентября сказал директор НИСИ КР Талант Султанов на круглом столе «Кыргызстан в эпоху инновационного века и экономики знаний». По его…
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Digital strategy should become fundamental and cross-sector for sustainable development of Kyrgyzstan
“Digital strategy should become fundamental and cross-sector for sustainable development of Kyrgyzstan”, said Aziz Soltobaev, co-founder of KG Labs as well as expert of National Institute for Strategic Studies, on round table about “Kyrgyzstan in the age of digital age and knowledge economy”. “First of all, government should become disruptive inside out by changing business processes…
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StartupGrind: Fireside chat with Edil Ajibaev, founder of Picvpic (video)
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Knowledge economy in Kyrgyzstan in the age of innovation
Автор: Азиз Солтобаев, эксперт НИСИ КР Кыргызская Республика вошла в Евразийский Экономический Союз в надежде на экономический рост от данного альянса. Однако, упадок цен на нефтепродукты, а также западные санкции против России, одного из главных импортеров отечественной продукции и рабочей силы из Кыргызстана, могут стать причиной того, что реальность будет скорее всего отличаться от ожиданий. На…
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Meeting with State Procurement Department on web site improvements
On July 1, 2015, on behalf of Open Data team, Aziz Soltobaev met with development team of state procurement website zakupki.okmot.kg (zakupki.gov.kg) based upon the letter sent on June 17, 2015. Participants of the meeting discussed all shortcomings and bugs of the web site. State officials mentioned that many points were fixed based upon letter…
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Recommendation on improvement of state procurement web site
Chairman of KG Labs Public Foundation Aziz Soltobaev participated in Central Asian Open Data hackathon held on June 9-13, 2015. During hackathon, in a working group found numerous bugs and shortcomings that limits full achievement of Kyrgyz Republic goals on fighting corruption and ensuring transparency. As a result of participation in Open Data hackathon, our…
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Video conference with World Bank about IT industry in Kyrgyz Republic
Aziz Soltobaev, as external expert of National Institute of Strategic Studies (NISS), participated in video conference with World Bank office in Washington DC about topic “Opportunities and Challenges for development of IT industry in Kyrgyz Republic”. As participant of conference call, Aziz Soltobaev made presentation about “Creating sustainable startup ecosystem in Kyrgyz Republic”. Aziz pointed…
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KG Labs joined Startup Nations league
On May 6, 2015 KG Labs joined Startup Nations league. This membership helps to collaborate with partners from all around the world on policy making to improve Kyrgyz ecosystem to create critical mass of innovative startups in the near future. Startup Nations (SN) is network and platform dedicated to identifying policy levers that can unleash high impact entrepreneurship…