Vadim Sadonshoev
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Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce a new topic for discussion on the Central Asian Gateway portal. The topic proposed for discussion concerns the issues of regional integration. We invite your to share your opinion the question: “Is Internet an effective tool for promoting regional integration in Central Asia?”.
Discussion was launched on June, 15 and will be moderated during a month., by completion of which the final report on the forum results will be developed and presented for your attention.
Integration or, rather, cooperation among the Central Asian countries in various areas is considered as one of the main conditions for sustainable economic and social development in the region. Reinforcement of integration efforts on inter-governmental level is reflected in strengthening the positions of the regional organizations, namely, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and EuroAsian Economic Community (EurAsEC). Those efforts are accompanied by development of good partner relations on the level of Business and Civil Society. Investments and trade, education and environmental protection, joint usage of resources and labor migration - all these spheres of interaction are discussed at the conferences, seminars and symposiums, as well as being developed in practice.
However, it is early to consider those relations as sustainable: the most of agreements on cooperation remain declared on paper .
In fact, besides political will and economic-driven interests, integration should be also supported with subjective factors – partnership and personal relations on the level of communities, experts and friends.
Internet eliminates borders, provides access to knowledge and information and brings opportunities to find new partners in the whole world. It is the Internet which should be used as a toll for promoting constructive dialogue and productive cooperation.
But can they state that the potential of Internet is used in full and effectively for fueling integration of the Central Asian countries? To what extent do we use the opportunities of Internet in on-line trading, banking and investments, on-line education, security protection and other, actually infinite benefits?
The issues proposed for discussion are the following:
1. Development of trade and economic relations through Internet: Are we ready for it?
2. Integration through building online communities and promoting of knowledge exchange
3. Access to Internet: What restrains development of infrastructure: monopoly of suppliers or weak demand of consumers?
4. Any other issues, which are interesting for the participants of discussions.
We invite you to participate in the discussions!.
The discussion is moderated by Mr. Vadim Sadonshoev, National Facilitator of the Central Asian Gateway project in Kyrgyz Republic.
Below You can see the links to publications on the topic of discussion:
Internet in Central Asia: a common communication facility or luxury?
http://www.cnews.ru/newsline/index.shtml?2003/03/07/141704
Electronic commerce in Central Asia
http://www.e-commerce.ru/News/2001/06/13/news9021.html
Development of Internet in Central Asian countries
Nuridin Karshiboev, CIMERA
http://www.cimera.org/files/camel/ru/25r/MICA25R-Karshiboev.pdf
Internet in Kazakhstan: is it going to be better tomorrow than in was yesterday?
Kazakhstan Internet Guide
http://www.lyakhov.kz/isector/com0001.shtml
Internet in Kyrgyzstan: current situation and prospects
Prepared by Computer Club Magazine
http://www.ccm.kz/article/default.aspx?ArticleID=312
Mass-media of Kyrgyzsta has a good future: virtual
CAMEL Central Asian electronic bulletin, #16, June, 2001
http://cimera.org/files/camel/ru/C16R-Toktogulova.pdf
Concept of electronic economy in Kyrgyzstan
http://www.ict.gov.kg/parameters/www.ict.gov.kg/pictures/94doc5.doc
Tajik Internet: expecting changes
http://old.russ.ru/netcult/globus/20010808.html
Romish Sherali, National strategy of IT development in Tajikistan: experience and prospects
http://emag.iis.ru/arc/infosoc/emag.nsf/BPA/1F4AB04F8BAA77EAC3256D570041E44B
Information on ICT for development in Uzbekistan
http://www.ictp.uz/
Shaukat Valitov, Current situation and prospects of IT development in Uzbekistan
http://emag.iis.ru/arc/infosoc/emag.nsf/BPA/A85F64E4E1E1E983C3256D570041E4D6
Yakovenko A.A., Legal basis for Internet-trading development in Uzbekistan. http://www.russianlaw.net/law/doc/a178.doc
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Vadim Sadonshoev
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Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce a new topic for discussion on the Central Asian Gateway portal. The topic proposed for discussion concerns the issues of regional integration. We invite your to share your opinion the question: “Is Internet an effective tool for promoting regional integration in Central Asia?”.
Discussion was launched on June, 15 and will be moderated during a month, by completion of which the final report on the forum results will be developed and presented for your attention.
Integration or, rather, cooperation among the Central Asian countries in various areas is considered as one of the main conditions for sustainable economic and social development in the region. Reinforcement of integration efforts on inter-governmental level is reflected in strengthening the positions of the regional organizations, namely, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and EuroAsian Economic Community (EurAsEC). Those efforts are accompanied by development of good partner relations on the level of Business and Civil Society. Investments and trade, education and environmental protection, joint usage of resources and labor migration - all these spheres of interaction are discussed at the conferences, seminars and symposiums, as well as being developed in practice.
However, it is early to consider those relations as sustainable: the most of agreements on cooperation remain declared on paper.
In fact, besides political will and economic-driven interests, integration should be also supported with subjective factors – partnership and personal relations on the level of communities, experts and friends.
Internet eliminates borders, provides access to knowledge and information and brings opportunities to find new partners in the whole world. It is the Internet which should be used as a toll for promoting constructive dialogue and productive cooperation.
But can they state that the potential of Internet is used in full and effectively for fueling integration of the Central Asian countries? To what extent do we use the opportunities of Internet in on-line trading, banking and investments, on-line education, security protection and other, actually infinite benefits?
The issues proposed for discussion are the following:
1. Development of trade and economic relations through Internet: Are we ready for it?
2. Integration through building online communities and promoting of knowledge exchange.
3. Access to Internet: What restrains development of infrastructure: monopoly of suppliers or weak demand of consumers?
4. Any other issues, which are interesting for the participants of discussions.
We invite you to participate in the discussions!
The discussion is moderated by Mr. Vadim Sadonshoev, National Facilitator of the Central Asian Gateway project in Kyrgyz Republic.
Below you can see the links to publications on the topic of discussion:
Internet in Central Asia: a common communication facility or luxury?
http://www.cnews.ru/newsline/index.shtml?2003/03/07/141704
Electronic commerce in Central Asia
http://www.e-commerce.ru/News/2001/06/13/news9021.html
Development of Internet in Central Asian countries
Nuridin Karshiboev, CIMERA
http://www.cimera.org/files/camel/ru/25r/MICA25R-Karshiboev.pdf
Internet in Kazakhstan: is it going to be better tomorrow than it was yesterday?
Kazakhstan Internet Guide
http://www.lyakhov.kz/isector/com0001.shtml
Internet in Kyrgyzstan: current situation and prospects
Prepared by Computer Club Magazine
http://www.ccm.kz/article/default.aspx?ArticleID=312
Mass-media of Kyrgyzsta has a good future: virtual
CAMEL Central Asian electronic bulletin, #16, June, 2001
http://cimera.org/files/camel/ru/C16R-Toktogulova.pdf
Concept of electronic economy in Kyrgyzstan
http://www.ict.gov.kg/parameters/www.ict.gov.kg/pictures/94doc5.doc
Tajik Internet: expecting changes
http://old.russ.ru/netcult/globus/20010808.html
Romish Sherali, National strategy of IT development in Tajikistan: experience and prospects
http://emag.iis.ru/arc/infosoc/emag.nsf/BPA/ 1F4AB04F8BAA77EAC3256D570041E44B
Information on ICT for development in Uzbekistan
http://www.ictp.uz/
Shaukat Valitov, Current situation and prospects of IT development in Uzbekistan
http://emag.iis.ru/arc/infosoc/emag.nsf/BPA/ A85F64E4E1E1E983C3256D570041E4D6
Yakovenko A.A., Legal basis for Internet-trading development in Uzbekistan. http://www.russianlaw.net/law/doc/a178.doc |
Atan Jakshylykov
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the Internet resources are huge and unmeasurably high. I tghink that there is few other ways that can be so effective in the integrational process of Central Asian region. However, it should be admited that in the current state of development of informational technologies there appear many obsticles that surely hinders the effective and shrilling process of integration. I am sure that the primary stages of the process shoud be effective exchange of information, that's actaually where this process take place, (in my viewpoint!), so Central Asian Gateway should be the bridgeahead for such an effective exchange. |
Sayora Arifdjanova
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Dear forum participants,
please find below a good document corresponding with the theme of discussion.
It allows to see the problem from reverse: How countries join to govern Internet for ensuring its usefulness in regional cooperation.
Statement of Heads of SCO Member States on International Information Security Shanghai, 15 June 2006 The heads of member states of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, met in Shanghai on 15 June 2006 and made the following statement: The rapid development and extensive application of new information communication technology (ICT) is one of the most important features of the world today. Prevalent in all areas of human activities, ICT has formed a global information system that has a direct impact on all aspects of national security, including politics, economy, national defence and culture, and even on the entire international security and stability system. Information system is becoming an important stimulant of social vitality, and information is the most valuable wealth and most important political and economic resource of a country. The heads of state believe that ICT opens up huge potentials for human development and their enjoyment of rights and freedoms to a fuller extent. It offers more possibilities and means to ensure effective operation of the society in all countries and to establish a global partnership for sustainable development, security and prosperity. Meanwhile, the heads of state express concern over the immediate threat of using ICT for the following purposes: to undermine the basic principles of equality, mutual respect, non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, peaceful settlement of disputes, non-use of force and respect of human rights, and to bring serious harm to individual, social and national security. Moreover, in both civil and military fields, there is the possible danger of using ICT for criminal, terrorist, military and political purposes that run counter to the maintenance of international security, which will cause serious political, social and economic consequences to countries and regions, or even the entire world, and trigger social instability in countries. The heads of state point out useful efforts have been made by all countries to enhance information security. They also believe that the negative impact of the use of ICT in a destructive way by criminals including terrorists, their gangs and organisations, and even some countries for military and political purposes, is extensive, affecting other countries and sometimes even the whole world. The use of ICT for the above-mentioned purposes may cause a catastrophe for the entire world tantamount to that resulted from the use of weapons of mass destruction. The heads of state emphasise that ICT should not only act as a carrier in the information world, but also, more importantly, promote closer ties and better integration among diversified cultures and civilisations. In this process, religious beliefs and traditions of people of all countries, the SCO’s member states included, should be respected. The heads of state also emphasise that the transnational nature of ICT and current threats and challenges make it imperative for all countries to step up their efforts on information security through bilateral, regional and international cooperation. Only with well-coordinated and complementary measures taken by all countries, can the current challenges and threats to information security be effectively dealt with. In view of this, the heads of state support the United Nations in its relevant efforts, including analysing the existing and potential threats in the field of information security, taking collective actions to eliminate these threats and studying the relevant international proposals aimed at strengthening security of the global information and communication system, and deem it important to continue these efforts. The heads of state welcome Resolution 60/45 Development in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security adopted by the 60th session of the UN General Assembly on 8 December 2005, and express their willingness to promote the implementation of the proposals set forth in the Resolution. The heads of state declare that the member states hold similar positions on key issues concerning international information security and wish to work in concert to take up new information challenges and threats within the framework of the SCO. In this process, they will abide by the international law, including the norms and principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With this in mind, the heads of state have decided to establish an international information security expert group among the SCO member states, consisting of representatives of the SCO Secretariat and the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Antiterrorist Structure, to formulate a plan of action for international information security and define ways and means to solve problems concerning international information security within the framework of the SCO.
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