Particularities of bridging of Digital Divide in Kyrgyzstan

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Particularities of bridging of Digital Divide in
Kyrgyzstan

• Nurbek Turdukulov

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The current situation in Kyrgyzstan

• Population of the country 5mln.
• GDP (2003) 1, 7 billion
• Fixed communication 8
• Mobile communication 6
• Approximate number of Internet users 400 000
  users
• The number of secondary schools 2062
• The number of schoolchildren 1 200 000
• The number of students 200 000
• The number of High schools 48
• Growth rate of ICT sector 25-30

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Questions

• Is it more or less?
• Is it good or bad?
• How about others?
• Who and how to overtake in digital divide?

How to find answers to these questions?
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What is developing countries?

• Fixed network exceeds 50
• Mobile network is about 70-80
• Practically everybody uses Internet
• Developed banking system and availability of bank
  cards by majority of population

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• when we talk about digital divide, we
  unwittingly think of achievement of such
  parameters as western countries have

Digital Divide
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• And the task is to bridge digital divide,
  overtake, idealize the current situation of
  developed country
• It means trying to render components,
  infrastructure, mechanisms and processes of
  model-country

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This is the conception of overtaking country

• We shall have a long time before overtaking, but
  unfortunately, we shall be on the point of only
  situation in 2004

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• We have an aim
• By 2010 each family should be the member of
  Information Society.

These are 1 250 000 families!
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• This task is solvable, if at least one member of
  the family will be privy to information
  development.

Thus,
The aim is carried to 2 mln. members of
information society.
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Comparative table
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What is the member of the Information Society?

• Today the member of Information Society is a
  citizen, who has an opportunity to get and
  transmit information and knowledge (daily) and
  participate in the process of development of
  public decision.

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The first particularity

• We stake on mobile technologies. On development
  of mobile information society, mobile economy,
  mobile services.

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The second particularity

• We declined creation of Universal Access
  Foundation in traditional meaning
• (with assessments at the expense of operators).
• We have created its prototype Information Future
  Foundation of Kyrgyzstan

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The third particularity

• We initiated in the system of ICT management the
  annual national ICT Conference as mechanism of
  joint priority drawing-up and the conciliation of
  interests of all players.

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The fourth particularity

• We have lots of universities, but no research
  potential.
• We are trying to convince busyness of passing R
  and D work (RD) to universities

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Another particularities

• Many engineers and few managers Instead of
  technopark business incubator
• Undeveloped banking system Mobile payment
  is actively developing
• In development of E-Government, we should
  underline development of harmless systems, E-List
  of Agreement, where there is no interest and
  corruption.

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• Such is our context, such are our
  particularities.
• And such are our attempts to find own more
  effective way, the way of Digital development!

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SUMMARY

• Its necessary to bridge digital divide, but go
  to the future and see where developed countries
  moved to. The digital divide will be bridged, but
  I am afraid of its bridging between developing
  countries of 2010th and between developed
  countries of 2000th , and in reality it is
  increased.
• The principles of digital divide may be the same.
  But particularities are different, so models and
  ways will be different too.
• Unfortunately, nobody will find for us this
  optimal way, we are the only ones who is
  responsible for its search and finding, because
  nobody knows our particularities better than us.

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THANK YOU !