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Tag: bishkek
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Fifteen Universities, Four Thousand Students: The IT Education Landscape in Kyrgyzstan
In 2016, the Presidential Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic — the institution that trains civil servants and government managers — opened a master’s program…
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Mapping Kyrgyzstan’s ICT Talent Pipeline: Supply, Demand, and the Gap Between Them
In late 2018, KG Labs commissioned a structured survey of Kyrgyzstan’s ICT education landscape and cross-referenced it against a decade of enterprise registry data…
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Bishkek Investment Forum, December 2016: Travel Hackathon Winners Pitch the Room
On December 8, 2016 — four days after the Travel and Tourism Hackathon finals at AUCA — two winning teams from the hackathon walked…
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TechWomen and GES Alumni Talks, Bishkek November 2016
In November 2016, AUCA’s campus in Bishkek hosted two alumni talks organized by KG Labs — events built around people who had participated in…
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How to Transform Kyrgyzstan into a Startup Nation: Five Barriers, Six Pillars, One Roadmap
50% of users on popular local sites – Internet connections 2015: 2G: 3,297,003; 3G: 1,768,305; Ethernet: 183,209; LTE: 94,841 – ICT share of GDP:…
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Startup Tuesday at Ololohaus, June 2016: Global Tech Trends from Bishkek
On June 27, 2016, Aziz Soltobaev gave a Startup Tuesday talk at Ololohaus — the Bishkek co-working space and creative hub that had become…
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Startup Safary Bishkek 2015: First Edition Across Five Companies
In March 2015, while attending a Garage48 hackathon in Kyiv to study the methodology before bringing it to Bishkek, Aziz Soltobaev met Maciek Laskus…
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The Pitch Bishkek 2015: Asylbek Abdikarimov to Startup Nations Summit Monterrey
On September 22, 2015, a pitch competition at a venue in Bishkek selected the Kyrgyz startup that would travel to Monterrey, Mexico and compete…
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Garage48 Bishkek 2015: 48 Hours, AUCA, and the First Hackathon at Scale
From September 11 to 13, 2015, the new campus of the American University of Central Asia on Aaly Tokombaev Street hosted something Bishkek had…
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Kyrgyzstan in the Information Age: NISI Conference, June 2015
On June 9, 2015, the Congress Hall of the State Residence Ala-Archa in Bishkek hosted a national conference organized by the National Institute…
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Future Agro Challenge 2015: Tilek Toktogaziev Wins Bishkek, Athens Trip Funded by UNDP
In June 2015, KG Labs organized the first Future Agro Challenge competition in Kyrgyzstan — and in Central Asia. The Future Agro Challenge is…
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Venture Capital Lecture, May 2015: Term Sheets, Valuation, and Storytelling for Investors
On May 2, 2015, Aziz Soltobaev presented a lecture on venture capital and private equity to the residents of Ideagrad — a startup incubator…