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Tag: kyrgyzstan
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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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AI for Health
KG Labs is localizing open-source AI health models for Kyrgyzstan and similar mountainous countries — fine-tuning on local clinical data for pulmonology, stroke preliminary…
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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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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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The Power of Context: Microsoft Features the Fellowship Voices
On 16 September 2025, Microsoft’s Corporate Responsibility site published The power of context: Embracing global perspectives to foster meaningful AI adoption. The piece carried…
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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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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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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…