Askar Zhambakin, Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Digital Development, talks about the country’s digital transformation framework, data-driven policymaking, and a life events approach buttressed by a digital tech stack. Kazakhstan’s former Vice Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry (MDDIAI), Askar Zhambakin, shares with GovInsider how the Central Asian country is putting itself on the digital government map. Image: MDDIAI Earlier this year, off the back of Kazakhstan hosting the regional forum of the UN-backed GovStack programme, this writer wrote about Kazakhstan’s moment in the Digital Government sun, taking digital services leadership in Central Asia through partnerships, proactive service development, and the creation of a national large language model (LLM) and a supercomputer. In an interview with GovInsider , Kazakhstan’s then Vice Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, Askar Zhambakin, refers to both this regional forum and an upcoming UN ESCAP conference as Kazakhstan’s chance to “put [them]selves on the technological map”. The question of regional leadership is linked to Kazakhstan’s emphasis on the digital economy over the past couple of years. Earlier this year, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev set the government the goal of doubling IT exports from US$500 million (S$672 million) to US$1 billion (S$1,34 billion) […]
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