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BISHKEK (TCA) — “Our goal is to bring our country to the forefront of digitalization in the region,” Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said at the first telecommunications forum “Digital Kyrgyzstan: Regional Development” held in Osh on April 22. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has canceled a government decision to increase Internet fees in the Central Asian country in the face of online protests, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Rusprom and Transcom on March 27 signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation to jointly implement a project to set up and develop an integrated e-government system in Kyrgyzstan for public and municipal authorities in the framework of the Decree declaring 2019 the Year of the Development of Regions and Digitalisation of the Country passed by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on 11 January 2019, the EDB said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Internet penetration increases every year in Central Asia countries. The World Wide Web and the new opportunities it provides are becoming more accessible and diverse. Continue reading
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Batken has sentenced a local man to four years in prison after convicting him of inciting ethnic hatred with posts on the WhatsApp messaging application, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — A three-day national Table-top exercise on countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes began on 29 January in Tashkent. The exercise, for some 45 representatives of the parliament, judges, investigators, law enforcement officers, relevant state institutions and agencies, the ICT industry, civil society, youth organizations, academia, and the media, was organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in co-operation with the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department. Continue reading
