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Eight Problems Every IT Sub-Sector Named: Cross-Sector Findings from the 2019 USAID Study
In Jalal-Abad, in late January 2019, the focus group ran for almost three hours. We had budgeted ninety minutes. The reason it overran was…
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Counting the IT Sector: What KG Labs Found for USAID — Series Opener
In a focus-group room in Karakol in February 2019, the discussion was supposed to be about the labour market. It became, very quickly, about…
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Revolution of Culture, March–April 2019: 87 Events, No Organiser, No Sponsors
In the first week of February 2019, a manifesto appeared under the title “Revolution of Culture” — two pages, drafted in Bishkek, calling for…
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An Industry of Individuals: What the ICT Enterprise Registry Reveals About Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Economy
As of January 2018, the Kyrgyzstan National Statistics Committee registry counted 7,522 entities engaged in ICT-related activity across the country. That number — extracted…
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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…