Tajikistan
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Here you will find links to most of the country specific information provided by this site regarding Tajikistan. You may also want to do a search by clicking on "ICT search" in the sidebar, or a search in one of our databases. Note that most of the projects have a regional impact and therefore are not necessarily listed here.
Information
Projects
- Aga Khan Development Network in Tajikistan
Tajikistan’s education system has been confronted by significant challenges in the past decade as it faced an exodus of teaching talent and a significant decline in government funding following the break-up of the Soviet Union
Further resources
- Article: ICT and Youth Development in Tajikistan
Mountainous regions of the world may well be the last places on the planet connected to the internet, and compared to the lowland regions the digital divide will be more pronounced in mountainous areas. This mountain/lowland digital divide has many origins; from the technical challenges for connectivity in the mountains, to the lack of infrastructure such as irregular electrical supplies and impassable roads, to the lack of trained personnel for training and repairs. - Report: Multilingual ICT Education: Language Observatory as a Monitoring Instrument
Ubiquitous learning challenges students to become adept at information retrieval, management and synthesis from a variety of sources. This sparks discovery activities that are student-centered and personalized. Personalized means that the learning is best conducted in the natural language of the student. Language is an important tool for human communication and at the moment, the language dominating ICT is English. - ADB Report: ICT in Tajikistan
The main technology used to access the internet in Tajikistan is very small aperture terminal (VSAT) technology. Though this technology is considered one of the most expensive in the world, it is 24% to 30% cheaper than fibre-optic connectivity in Tajikistan.