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For the first time in Kyrgyzstan, a mobile application is launched for teenage girls about growing up and health
BISHKEK, January 27, 2023 – ‘Oky’ is the first mobile application aimed at managing health that has been created for girls and with girls from different countries, including Kyrgyzstan. The mobile application was originally developed by UNICEF’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office, and it enables girls to take control of...
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600 girls completed courses in satellite engineering!
BISHKEK, June 30, 2022 – Today UNICEF and the Association for Engineering Education of Kyrgyzstan held the First International Youth Forum “Space technologies. New Horizons for Girls with the technical support of the Kyrgyz Technical University named after I. Razzakov. During the forum, speakers and partners from ...
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Girls from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan launched nanosatellites into the stratosphere for air pollution analysis
March 28, 2022, Almaty/Bishkek/Tashkent – Today, more than 150 girls from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, participants of the UniSat (Uni stands for UNICEF, Sat stands for satellite) educational program, launched three ultra-modern nanosatellites into the stratosphere. Nanosatellites are a class of small sp...
Article
A Perilous Plight: Connecting an isolated village in Southern Kyrgyzstan to the Internet
According to Project Connect , of the 2,080 schools in Kyrgyzstan, 2,061 schools have already been connected, leaving only about 1% of schools still to be connected. Many of these schools are in harder-to-reach areas, like Zardaly, and other remote and mountainous villages, like Kyzyl-Oi and Enilchek. In the wint...
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Ministry of Education and Science and UNICEF launch digital innovations to support early learning and child development in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, 23 November 2021 – Today, the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ms. Nadira Djusupbekova, and UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Ms. Afshan Khan, unveiled two new digital initiatives that will support parents and teachers across the country in ensuring opti...
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Six satellites launched into space to connect some of the world’s most remote schools to broadband-access Internet
LONDON/BISHKEK, 28 February 2019 – OneWeb has sent its six satellites into low earth orbit to connect six schools in some of the most remote and hard to reach areas in the world to broadband Internet. The satellites were launched from cosmodrome Kourou in French Guiana to connect students studying in Ecuador, Rwan...
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International hackfest in Bishkek: digital solutions for children of Central Asia
BISHKEK, 26 March 2018 - The Central Asian Hackfest 2018 “Generation Z: wellbeing of children” took place in Bishkek. During 48 hours, the teams of IT developers from different countries were looking for innovative solutions to address challenges faced by children and identified the most promising digital services...
Report
The State of the World’s Children 2017
As the debate about whether the internet is safe for children rages, The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital World discusses how digital access can be a game changer for children or yet another dividing line. The report represents the first comprehensive look from UNICEF at the different ways...