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Kyrgyzstan has developed a useful alternative to the Internet for schoolchildren

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In recent years, the Internet has become increasingly accessible to Kyrgyz people. If about 5 years ago only residents of the capital could afford access to the world wide web, now it is quite a familiar thing for residents of the regions.

The Internet plays an important role in modern education. Problems such as the shortage of school textbooks could be addressed through quality Internet access. Given this fact, the Ministry of education of Kyrgyzstan has carried out a lot of work in this direction and for 2 years connected almost 2 thousand state and municipal schools to the Internet, which is almost 90% of all schools in the country. However, the analysis showed that schoolchildren still do not have access to the world wide web. Fearing that students will be distracted from lessons and use the Internet for other purposes, school authorities do not provide students with access.

Innovative solutions to two pressing problems such as the lack of books and the lack of Internet can be seen in the project digital library for schools and public libraries “Ilim Box”, which contains Wikipedia in Kyrgyz, Russian and English, Khan Academy in English, thousands of video lessons, audio and e-books. All these digital learning materials are available offline, in other words does not need Internet access. Access to Digital libraries will be carried out through smartphones, tablets, computers and any other personal devices with Wi-Fi technology.

“As you know, the Internet has a huge number of educational resources that would help our children to access the most advanced knowledge online. Unfortunately, now a lot of students can not watch educational videos, read online books and use all educational resources. In order to solve this problem, we launched a project Ilimbox”, – said the representative of the Internet community in Kyrgyzstan (ISOC) Talant Sultanov.
The device allows you to access all educational resources without an Internet connection, in other words offline.
“The content that is online, we downloaded to the hard drive, attached a small computer that also acts as a Wi-Fi router. Any user will be able to download the necessary information to your computer or smartphone. What is most important-the user gets access only to educational resources, he will not have access to social networks and other entertainment content”, – explained Talant Sultanov.
It is worth noting that all data is stored in the device itself, and only the power supply and the box itself are needed for connection. The uniqueness of the innovative project is that students can access educational resources at school without an Internet connection.
“This is a very useful device, because on the one hand it provides access to an extensive database of educational materials, and on the other – it does not have entertainment content that would interfere with students during lessons. We are very happy that we had the opportunity to IlimBox and use it for educational purposes”, – shared his impressions the Director of one of schools of Karakol Gulzat Soukouna.

It should be noted that the IlimBox device was installed in 66 schools of Issyk-Kul, Talas and Chui regions. In these schools was held a presentation of the project “Ilim box” then testing the device with students and teachers and handing the device. During the conversation, the importance of education and self-education were touched upon. The choice of schools was due to several factors: no access to the Internet for students, lack of books, as well as the number of students exceeded the permissible maximum, thereby increasing the likelihood of poor performance in schools without a network connection, as well as the choice of educational institutions influenced the list of proposed schools by the Ministry of education and science of the Kyrgyz REPUBLIC.
The project is planned to cover all regions of Kyrgyzstan and install IlimBox in a total of 100 devices in schools experiencing problems with Internet access. Every educational institution reggenie gets IlimBox free.

The project is funded by Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2018 (AEIF) as part of innovative solutions to global challenges and the Beyond the Net ISOC program.

A video about the project can be found here:

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School of Eshimbekova (Tegizchil v., Issyk-Kul region)

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The penultimate visit was to the school Esimbekova (Tegizchil v.).

It is a compact school with 238 children.  It is located on the outskirts of the village Tegizchil, however, despite this, at school we met a volunteer from the United States who came on a Peace Corps knowledge-sharing project.

He teaches children English for the second academic year and speaks Kyrgyz perfectly.

Teachers and children admitted, in school except an office of administration there is no Internet access anywhere.

Of course such a gift to the school was very useful and also solved the problem of acute shortage of books.

The guys offered to install the device in the office of the school government, as it is usually open around the clock.

Interview about community network on “Suusamyr FM”

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November 23, 2018 after the launch of the project “Suusamyr net” and the start of connecting subscribers, a meeting with local residents was organized. During the conversation, they talked about the project, the advantages and importance of high-speed Internet. The audience needed to provide ip TV, as there were no entertainment and sports channels, and they received many proposals to improve the Internet environment. There were no more than twenty people, in order to reach more people community Radio “Suusamyr FM” invited representatives of our company – Talent Sultanov – Chairman of ISOC and Erzhigit Imamov – technical Manager of the project on the air. During the broadcast Talant and Erzhigit shared with the audience the immediate plans of this initiative. The broadcast was exciting and productive and solved the issue of audience coverage of Suusamyr.

 

 

“Internet Development Perspectives in Kyrgyz Republic” Central Asian symposium

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On December 10, 2014, the national Institute for strategic studies of the Kyrgyz Republic (NISI KR) and the Internet Society (ISOC), together with the National center for information technology and the Central Asian research and education network CAREN, held the Central Asian Internet Symposium “Prospects for the development of the Internet in the Kyrgyz Republic”.

Such a conference was held in Central Asia for the first time. The Symposium was attended by recognized professionals in the field of modern information technology from Europe and Kyrgyzstan. There was a video message from Vint CERF, one of the” fathers of the Internet ” (co-inventor of the Internet Protocol (IP)) and co-founder of ISOC. As well as speeches by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, heads of ISOC, the world Bank, Google employee, who is a native of Kyrgyzstan, representatives of government agencies and public organizations of the Kyrgyz Republic.

In addition, the event was held live online and the performances of the participants could be followed from around the world. This is a great opportunity to follow the work of the Symposium in real time. To do this, you had to go to the next link for the live stream http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/Bishkek2014

It should be noted that ISOC has declared its readiness to cooperate with Kyrgyzstan in order to stimulate the development of the Internet here.  According to ISOC Regional Director Frederic Donk: “ISOC looks forward to working with NISI and other local stakeholders to further develop the Internet in the Kyrgyz Republic and wishes to share best practices across the region.”

In turn, the Director of NISI Talant Sultanov noted: “the Kyrgyz Republic has all the prerequisites for the development of the knowledge economy: an educated population, a free political regime and a favorable economic climate. Our goal is to become a high-tech hub for online communication and virtual service movement. We look forward to working with ISOC on projects that will support this goal and bring great benefits to the citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic.”

The Symposium program was aimed at creating a platform for economic growth, creating an enabling environment for local development, and building a sustainable Internet infrastructure. More information is available here: http://www.internetsociety.org/events/central-asian-internet-symposium-bishkek-2014