Kyrgyzstan runs its own digital gov't after 5-year Korean partnership
For most Kyrgyz citizens, obtaining an official document or updating an administrative record used to mean days of legwork under a paper-based system. Physical mail between regions could take up to two weeks. That changed last year when a five-year development initiative by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) helped the Kyrgyz government build an e-government system that lets…
The Korea Times reports that Kyrgyzstan has successfully transitioned to a fully digital government system after a five-year partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Prior to this initiative, citizens had to endure lengthy waits and cumbersome processes for obtaining official documents or updating administrative records, with physical mail taking up to two weeks to travel between regions.
Under the leadership of Nurlan Aidiev, the country's deputy director of IT infrastructure at InfoCom, the government built an e-government system that now allows citizens to secure government certificates online within minutes. This centralized system, known as G-Cloud, has transformed Kyrgyzstan's administrative landscape by digitizing all documents and data across the territory, significantly reducing delivery times to just five minutes.
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