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Tag: kyrgyzstan
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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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$30M vs $140M: what a South-East Asian venture investor’s questions revealed about Kyrgyzstan’s IT strategy
In 2022, Uzbekistan’s IT Park — founded mid-2019, so three full years of operation — produced revenue of one hundred and forty million US…
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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,…
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The Kyrgyz handicrafts e-commerce report: rural artisans, the logistics gap, and what contemporary design opened up
A specialised deliverable to ITC alongside the main Kyrgyzstan country research, focused on handicrafts alone — felt, embroidery, ornaments, traditional toys made by rural…
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What Kyrgyzstan could sell online in 2021, and why the catalogue had been invisible: notes from the ITC market research
An ITC Ready4Trade desk research deliverable, completed February 2021. Six hundred and sixty-two listings on Etsy for the keyword ‘Kyrgyzstan,’ all of them sold…
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What the Report Recommended, and What the Pandemic Settled
A friend who works at one of the larger HTP-resident outsourcing companies sent me a message in April 2020. It was three weeks into…
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Three Sub-Sectors at Zero: Hardware, Game Development, and E-sports in Kyrgyzstan, 2019
There are three sub-sectors in the original report that we ended up describing in fewer pages than the others, not because they were less…
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Animation: The Sub-Sector We Almost Didn’t Include
In February 2019, halfway through the research, we got a piece of data from the High Technology Park that changed the structure of the…
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E-commerce: Where the Women’s Jobs Are, and What the Banking System Won’t Let Them Do
When we asked one of the e-commerce operators we interviewed — she ran a small online store from a converted spare room in her…
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Software Publishing: The Sub-Sector Most Outsourcing Firms Are Quietly Trying to Become
One of the in-depth interviews ran a quiet contradiction past us that took a few minutes to register. The founder was describing a software-publishing…