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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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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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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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Karakol focus groups: what the Ministry of Education’s digital infrastructure looks like from a rural household
Kyrgyzstan is in a stage of digital transformation where the moment calls for the introduction of the newest technological advances — artificial intelligence, edge…
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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,…
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US and EU e-commerce platforms for Central Asian merchants: the May 2022 ITC regional briefing
In May 2022, ITC brought together more than a hundred representatives from Central Asian industry associations, seller organisations, artisan cooperatives, and merchant companies for…
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$74,300 in six weeks: what the 2022 KG Labs × PEAK e-commerce acceleration cohort actually produced
The Russian-language project summary from August 2022 — at /2022/08/08/second-ecommerce-accelerator/ — covers the structural results of the second KG Labs × PEAK Kyrgyzstan e-commerce…
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Coaching five Kyrgyz companies on e-commerce: how reviewing digital strategy and expanding sales channels increased gross margin
Five Kyrgyz SMEs from three industries — textile and garment, handicrafts, and food and beverage — each at a different stage of e-commerce maturity,…