Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan The second group consists of private institutions of three older institutions which were previously well-equipped with computers. All of them have Internet access and e-mail services. The third group, the biggest, consists of institutions that were established recently and that are state-owned. They still have no sufficient technical infrastructure. The fourth group includes state-owned institutions with little use of information communication technologies, due to their specialisation. Table 2. Number of students and IBM compatible computers 1996 – 2000 Year 1996 1997 2000 Number of (thousands) 77.8 97.8 188.8 students Number of computers 1200 1850 5100 Number of students per computer 65 54 37 In accordance with the Harvard methodology, the situation in the Higher Educational sector is the following: • • • 15 % are at stage two of readiness; 70 % are at stage three; About 10 % can be considered at stage four. Training of IT specialists has been improved recently. Degrees are offered by numerous institutions in the following fields: • • • • • • Automatics and management of technical systems, Kyrgyz Technical University Telecommunications, Kyrgyz Technical University, Osh Technical University Electronics and microelectronics, Kyrgyz State National University, Jalal-Abad State University, Dastan University Computers, Systems and Networks. Information Processing and Management Systems. Software for Information Systems and Management. Kyrgyz Technical University, Kyrgyz State National University, International University of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Slavic University, Dastan University, Manas University and others Information Technologies in Economics. Kyrgyz Technical University, International University of Kyrgyzstan and others. Applied Mathematics and informatics. Kyrgyz State National University, International University of Kyrgyzstan Most of the institutions only recently begun teaching the above-mentioned programmes, and they are targeted at the preparation of highly-qualified computer users. As a rule, they do not have laboratories for hardware study, design, and manufacturing of electronic devices and their parts. Table 3. Number of IT students 33

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