Translated post by Lena B-va from the Russian language blog.
Each Kazakhsnani citizen will soon have chance to test his or her strength in transactions with securities. A new game simulating real stock exchange will go online in May-June this year. Every registered user will receive 50,000 virtual dollars on a personal account, which […]
The Kazakh segment of Internet has burst with an ambitious project - Second Astana. As reported by Cnews, the “building” of a second Astana online is a sep towards promotion of the brand called “Republic of Kazakhstan” in the world.
The Astana city administration has almost completed creation of the capital’s 3D model on Google […]
Web-domains with geographical names are always a subject of interest on the Internet market. Average prices for them yield only to the domains of business and porn topics.
Domain-Blog reports that the specialized fair of geographic domains names was held by the Associated Cities Co. in San-Francisco in mid-November this year. One of the lots […]
State Agency for Informatization and Communications plans to impose new requirements on the Kazakhstani Internet Service Providers. The requirements refer to the minimal speed for a broadband connection - not less than 256 Kbps. This condition, according to the agency, corresponds to the basic standards of the International Telecommunication Union.
“We will insist that the […]
Recently, you may have noticed a new addition to the weblogs called Artpologist.net. This blog documents the life of an art project that I’ve started working on with several artists and an anthropologist from Kazakhstan.
The project focuses on the studios and personal spaces of artists amidst the dramatic building boom influencing the daily […]
Can we control the Internet? This was a major issue discussed by Mr. David Gross, the US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, at a conference in the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP) in Almaty on Thursday, April 5th 2007. A large number of KIMEP students and faculty members […]
Adil Nurmakov is a 28-year old political scientist and a journalist from Almaty, who started as a blogger in 2004. He writes his own Livejournal adam_kesher and is a regular author on neweurasia. Recently, Adil wrote an open letter to the mayor of Almaty about the situation with the increasing amount of cars in […]
2006 has not so far proved to be a very positive year for Kazakh media, with more restrictive media bill being adopted in July 2006, and every other news item being a closure of a newspaper or a trial of a journalist. The OSCE, which Kazakhstan hopes to chair in 2009, has repeatedly tried […]
