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• Kazakh-Land?

  Thanks to Micheal Hancock at Registan for drawing my attention to this website claiming to advertise a Kazakh-style resort/theme park in California. As the article in Registan points out, the English on the website is highly suspicious, particularly the guest book which supposedly lists comments from Americans who have been to the park. For example, […]

  11/09/10 • (6)

• E-Government in KZ

  NewEurasia.net has an article up that scratches the surface of problems with e-government in Kazakhstan: How Responsive is Kazakhstan’s e-Government. I left a comment that pretty much sums up my feelings on what needs to be done to improve the system: The key issues for e-government are, as you say, accessibility. Does everyone have Internet? […]

  10/04/10 • (Comments Off on E-Government in KZ)

• Online Live Broadcast of Government Meeting

  Right now, they are live-broadcasting the government meeting with the whole cabinet of Ministers, oblast Akims, and the Prime Minister. Interesting whether there will be any glitches or not. Click this link to tune-in: Government Meeting Broadcast online

  9/27/10 • (1)

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  Google Transparency

  Probably to avoid bad press, Google has launched a new domain, Google Transparency Report, which shows how much traffic goes to different Google sites by country in order to see where services are blocked. The government request feature lets you see by country how many requests Google got to remove or censor content. Interestingly, Kazakhstan’s […]

  9/22/10 • (2)

• ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy

  I put up a post on ALZHIR, a museum at the site of a labor camp for women near Astana. I definitely would put it on my list of things for people to do around Astana. I did notice two posts about ALZHIR from Kazakh Nomad after her trip on the 4th of July: Why […]

  7/30/10 • (Comments Off on ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy)

• Price for Internet Halves

  Or speeds double, depending on how you look at it. A few months ago, KazakhTeleCom started offering faster Internet in Kazakhstan, doubling its speeds. I am told by my friends who are better at computers than I am that there is no reason why we couldn’t have had faster Internet a long time ago, but […]

  4/27/10 • (Comments Off on Price for Internet Halves)

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  Astana Racer Still Doesn’t Work But I Wish It Did

  Just a quick update about Astana Racer. The creators have released a patch that solves some of the problems people were having with the game, which you can download here. You also apparently have to edit the file “config.cfg” and change the variable “use_video_player” from true to false. This file is located in Program Files/Astana […]

  4/22/10 • (3)

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  Kazakhstan Loves Opera

  According to Reuters, Opera 10 is the most popular browser in Kazakhstan with 32% of the market share. An even more significant way of looking at it is that in January Kazakhstan, with an estimated 2,300,000 Internet users (less than one-tenth of users in China or the US) was one of the top ten countries […]

  4/14/10 • (3)

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  Kazakhstan Hosting Alien Embassy! Not!

  Is Kazakhstan building an embassy for aliens? If they do, will there be separate sections for the greys, the reptilians, the greens and the bugs? Why would they bother since everyone knows that there is already a UFO base in the Caspian Sea?

  4/11/10 • (4)

• New Media in Kazakhstan

  KplusTVeng is a news show broadcast on Youtube. It isn’t clear who is behind it, but it’s very professional and the first time I’ve heard of locals using new media in such a high quality format. I’m sure the rumors will start about who is funding it and in what way it is biased. But […]

  3/25/10 • (3)

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