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Метка: Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter
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Sensors at Three Thousand Metres: A Low-Cost Climate Network in Mountain Kyrgyzstan
Five LoRaWAN weather stations across Kyrgyzstan’s mountain zones demonstrate that low-cost sensors deliver high-precision data — and that procurement standards haven’t caught up with…
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Less than 100,000 som: clearing the smoke from a school in Kara-Dyikan
This spring we drove through the secondary schools of Osh and Batken oblasts as part of a sub-grant from the European Union, working on…
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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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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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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…
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Sixteen metres a year: putting real-time eyes on Adygene and Kara-Batkak
Sixteen metres. That is how much the Adygene glacier — in the right branch of the Ala-Archa gorge, at three thousand six hundred metres…
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Sary-Chelek: bringing a biosphere reserve’s weather station back online
Sary-Chelek is the kind of place that gives you energy for a year. The biosphere reserve sits in the Aksy district of Jalal-Abad oblast,…
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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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AI for Climate Relief, Istanbul Modern, November 2024: where the climate-AI thread picked up
On 3–4 November 2024, the Istanbul Modern Museum hosted the AI for Climate Relief Summit. The frame was simple: bring leading artificial-intelligence researchers and…
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From mountains to data: what we told RIPE 89 about LoRaWAN climate sensors
This week I was in Prague at the RIPE 89 forum, where I presented the field results and the practical conclusions from the Internet…
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Zyndan-West: a glacial lake outburst near Bokonbaevo, August 2024
The more I travel around the country, the more I see how beautiful nature in Kyrgyzstan really is. The mountains, the lakes, the rivers,…
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Yurts on Booking.com: Sanarip Insan’s digital-tourism work in Sary-Chelek
In the middle of July 2024, I spent days inside the Sary-Chelek biosphere reserve as part of the digital-tourism training track of the Sanarip…