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According to the Information Policy Department of Kyrgyz Government, representatives of presidential apparatus, parliament, government, donor community, banks and other institutions and companies were invited to participate at the conference.

According to him, the price of biometric ID card will not exceed 250 soms. “The world practice shows that the cost of a biometric passport reaches €70-80. But we have rather low cost. A 128 kilobytes chip will contain data on iris, fingerprint pattern, electronic signature and a photo. We have inserted larger memory content, because it will be unreasonably to increase it afterwards,” Erlan Saparbayev explained.

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.

Under the memorandum, the EDB will take part in Rusprom’s preparations of the concept, feasibility study, calculations, business plan and cost estimates for the Project and in ensuring long-term investment.

According to Estonia's Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, the purpose of the meeting is to support building the e-government information system in Kyrgyzstan and to provide consultations in preparation for the 2015 parliamentary elections. Kyrgyzstan's e-government coordination centre has been set the task of creating a secure environment for the exchange of information in order to provide citizens with electronic services, like the Estonian Information System.

The Kyrgyz Government has been implementing the Open Government Policy and has already undertaken several measures, such as creating official web portals for state bodies including Open Budget, Electronic Procurement, Foreign Aid and many others. Through these websites, citizens can find information about public services and activities offered by government ministries and other state agencies.

"Address register" system will be used in election to local councils. The State Registration Service reported.

According to the head of service Taiyrbek Sarpashev, "Address register" is the result of the digitization of real estate databases and address lists. It includes more than 32,000 streets across the country. "This system is one of the most important universal instruments in the transition to e-government," the official said.

The construction of the fiber optic line began in June 2009.

The system is expected to be operational in late September. The remaining construction is being financed by Kyrgyztelecom.

"Only through the development of e-government in Kyrgyzstan it is possible to achieve transparency, accountability, predictability of public procedures and establishment of order," the Advisor to the Director of the State Personnel Service of the KR, the expert Asylbek Bolotbayev believes.

The Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO) has begun supplying national electronic identification (e-ID) cards to Kyrgyzstan, the company’s first exports of such cards.

“Korea has been exporting its advanced systems such as electronic government (e-government). The export of the e-ID cards is meaningful since we have been diversifying our export items,” KOMSCO CEO Kim Hwa-dong said at a delivery ceremony held at the company’s plant in Daejeon, Monday.

E-government is one of the priorities in the Kyrgyz 2013-2017 plan for sustainable development. Various state agencies are actively working to apply principles and methods of e-government.

Klara Uraimova's son, a fifth-grader in Osh, couldn't attend classes because of a disease afflicting his legs.

So Uraimova did what most concerned parents would do. She contacted the principal and asked that teachers be sent to her home, per Kyrgyz law. But that tactic didn't work.

On October 14, Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov signed a Decree to construct the eco-city “Asman” near the village of Toru-Aigyr on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, the country’s main region for tourism and recreation.

Spanning 4,000 hectares, some 200km southeast of the capital Bishkek and dubbed a “smart city”, Asman aims to become the country’s new economic and tourist hub and home to modern business, recreational and sports facilities, hi-tech parks, and financial institutions. It will also provide homes for around 500,000 residents. From a bird’s eye view, Asman (the Kyrgyz word for “sky”) will resemble a komuz, a traditional Kyrgyz string musical instrument and one of Kyrgyzstan’s national symbols.

The Premier voiced his hopes Monday at the meeting with the assistant director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, Cihan Sultanoglu.

He believes the United Nations and states where this program has already been launched should share experience in e-governance activity and Kyrgyzstan should study from it.

Kyrgyzstan can become Central Asia’s IT transit hub if it effectively uses its geographical position and implements ambitious IT projects, the director of the Civil Initiative on Internet Policy public foundation Tattoo Mambetalieva said at the sixth Kyrgyz Information Technology Forum (KIT 2017) held on February 21-23 in Bishkek.

The forum brought together leading experts, heads of major IT companies, software developers, and politicians to discuss current projects and development prospects.

Kyrgyzstan spends 2 billion soms for the introduction of e-government. The employee of the Ministry of Economy Nikolai Novitsky announces today at a round table "Digital Kyrgyzstan - the country's future".

According to him, on the eve of implementation of the program the Ministry of Economy has conducted five examinations - technical, financial, legal expertise, analysis of state and municipal services and assessment of training system.

On April 28, President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev discussed with Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov and Chief of Staff of President's Office Sapar Isakov the start of introduction of electronic biometric passports in Kyrgyzstan, the presidential press office said.

Electronic biometric passport of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan is an identification document of a new type that corresponds to the international standard.

Central Asian state Kyrgyzstan has begun issuing ICAO-compliant eIDs.

The National Electronic Identity Card (eID) is a new generation document that certifies the identity of a citizen of Kyrgyz Republic, using an integrated circuit chip.

Beginning from May 2017, the State registration service under the Kyrgyz Government had started the enrollment of applications for issuing the National electronic identification cards for Kyrgyz citizens.

The draft strategy has been developed by the State e-Government Center in collaboration with the UNDP to radically improve the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by the state executive bodies and local authorities to improve their efficiency, transparency and expand the range of electronic services in accordance with the National Sustainable Development Strategy of Kyrgyzstan for 2013-2017.