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Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge AI for Environmental and Radiation Sensing — Bishkek
The Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge Artificial Intelligence for Environmental and Radiation Sensing (SMR 4190) will run in Bishkek from 14 to 18 September…
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Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Landscape: Evidence from the Field
Series: Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Landscape: Evidence from the FieldRead: 7 minTags: `digital skills`, `digital literacy`, `education`, `teachers`, `ICT competency`, `Kyrgyzstan`, `DECA`, `UNESCO` Key Takeaways Kyrgyzstan…
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DPI, DPG, GovStack: presenting the Kyrgyz picture at the Central Asian Digital Forum, Bishkek 2024
This past week I delivered a presentation on the role of Digital Public Infrastructure, Digital Public Goods, and GovStack in the next stage of…
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Teaching Responsible AI in Russian: Notes from the ICNL Training, July 2024
On July 3 and 4, 2024, KG Labs delivered an intensive two-day training in Bishkek on Internet Governance and Artificial Intelligence Policy for civil…
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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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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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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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Counting the IT Sector: What KG Labs Found for USAID — Series Opener
In a focus-group room in Karakol in February 2019, the discussion was supposed to be about the labour market. It became, very quickly, about…
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Ecommerce and FinTech Hackathon 2019: Three Pre-Events, Three Days, Two Winners
By the time the 2019 E-Commerce and FinTech Hackathon opened on the evening of Friday, June 14, in the State Patent-Technical Library in central…
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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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An Industry of Individuals: What the ICT Enterprise Registry Reveals About Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Economy
As of January 2018, the Kyrgyzstan National Statistics Committee registry counted 7,522 entities engaged in ICT-related activity across the country. That number — extracted…