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Tag: central asia
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ITC Ready4Trade Central Asia e-commerce — an eight-post witness series, 2020–2023
Three years of ITC consulting work in eight posts: KG, KZ, UZ country market research; the Kyrgyz handicrafts brief; the Ready4Trade Module 1 training…
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What the Mobile-First Argument Looks Like From Bishkek
The mobile-first framing for Central Asia did not start as a thesis. It started as a recurring conversation — international visitors, consultants, and counterparts…
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Geopolitical Implications of AI Models in the CAMCA Region — Plenary at the CAMCA Regional Forum, Ulaanbaatar
From 18 to 21 June 2025, the CAMCA Regional Forum convened in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. CAMCA — Central Asia, Mongolia, Caucasus, Afghanistan — is a…
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Kazakhstan in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: Institutional Ambition and the Ethics Gap
The Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) 1st Edition assessed 138 countries across three dimensions — Responsible AI Governance, Human Rights and AI, and…
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Turkmenistan in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: What a Near-Absent Record Reveals
The GIRAI 2023 researcher described the Turkmenistan assignment with unusual directness: the unexpected finding of the research was a “near complete absence of evidence…
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Uzbekistan in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: An Ecosystem Still Being Built
Uzbekistan is Central Asia’s most populous country — approximately 36 million people — and one of the region’s most active reformers since 2016. When…
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Tajikistan in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: A Strategy Without a Framework
In September 2022, Tajikistan adopted the Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence for the Period up to 2040 — becoming the first country…
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Kyrgyzstan in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: What the Human Rights and AI Dimension Found
In 2023, the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) published its first edition — a baseline assessment of national AI ecosystems across more than…
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Central Asia in the GIRAI 2023 Assessment: Regional Dashboard
The Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) 1st Edition assessed 138 countries across three dimensions — Responsible AI Governance, Human Rights and AI, and…
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GIRAI 2024: notes from the Kyrgyzstan national researcher chair
On 14 June 2024, the first edition of the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) was published. Kyrgyzstan placed 79th out of 138 countries…
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Central Asian e-commerce practitioners in one room: Ready4Trade in Dubai, March 2023
ITC’s Ready4Trade convening in Dubai brought together practitioners from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan for a day of panel discussions and two days visiting…
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Seven years on: Travel Massive Almaty and the Central Asian tourism community that grew out of a 2016 KG Labs hackathon
In December 2016, KG Labs Public Foundation ran a hackathon focused on the tourism sector of Kyrgyzstan. We brought in mentors from Estonia, Russia,…