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“Central Asia girls in ICT” online un-conference

29.04.2022

On April 28, in honor of the International Day of “Girls in Information and Communication Technologies”, the organization “Women in Digital Transformation”, “Initiatives of R. Otunbayeva” and the Kyrgyz Internet Society held an online discussion on the topic “Girls in ICT”. International and local experts, as well as successful women, shared their experience and opportunities […]
The problem of digital inequality during a pandemic

24.03.2022

Chairman of the Kyrgyz Internet Society (ISOC) Talant Sultanov told how the pandemic affected digitalization in Kyrgyzstan during the round table: “The pandemic of digitalization. How the coronavirus has affected business” The pandemic tested the EAEU countries in difficult conditions to what extent they were ready to respond to challenges, including digital ones. Kyrgyzstan, it […]
School Connectivity

18.03.2022

This project provides accessible internet for remote schools in Kyrgyzstan. Many students and teachers suffer from insufficient internet in their schools. As a result, they cannot watch educational materials, connect with friends. Furthermore, during the pandemic, these students and teachers could not study and teach. The team of isoc chapter Kyrgyzstan focuses on providing internet […]
Bringing digital education to remote village schools with Ilimbox

27.09.2019

Ilimbox-digital source of knowledge-a product implemented on the basis of Orange Pi in order to provide access to students and teachers of remote secondary schools of the Kyrgyz Republic to textbooks in digital format, Wikipedia and resources of Khan Academy in offline mode. The Ilimbox project is funded by the Beyond The Net program created […]
Kyrgyzstan has developed a useful alternative to the Internet for schoolchildren

26.09.2019

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 […]
School of D. Turabekova (Boz-Bulun v., Issyk-Kul region)

24.09.2019

The final trip was school  of D. Turabekova (Boz-Bulun v.). There are 214 students enrolled. In this school the device “Ilim Box” was earlier established, however, it was the outdated version which as it became clear, unfortunately, wasn’t used on purpose, and gathered dust in one of offices as the head teacher lost the password […]
School of Eshimbekova (Tegizchil v., Issyk-Kul region)

23.09.2019

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 […]
School gymnasium №11 (Karakol, Issyk-Kul region)

22.09.2019

In Karakol we visited the gymnasium school №11. This is one of the largest educational institutions of Issyk-Kul region, in which we have established ilimBox, it has 2600 students, children study in double shifts school. Despite the fact that the school is a gymnasium and is located in Karakol, it still has difficulties accessing the […]
Connecting schools to Ilimbox aka Bilim Bulagy

13.04.2019

On April 13, 2019, the ISOC team began installing the Bilim Bulagy electronic library. The device allows you to access all educational resources without an Internet connection, in other words offline. Moreover, it should be noted that all data is stored in the device itself, and only power supply and wireless modem are required for […]