Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan Stage 3 Some local websites are available – most are static and updated infrequently. Websites carry diverse types of information for different community groups. Many websites are available in local languages or a dominant Web language spoken locally. There is some use of online bulletin-board systems, Usenet groups, newsletters, and/or listservs. Web-related training opportunities exist although can be expensive and accessible only in certain areas. 48 . Public telephones may be found in most parts of the community and are heavily used. Some members of the community have Internet access at home. Growing numbers of community members use telecenters, cyber-cafes and other businesses that offer computer use and online services to the public for a fee. Organisations achieve efficiency gains through some degree of deployment of ICT systems in their internal workings. Many computers in business offices are internally networked for data processing, management reporting, and other enterprise applications. Some employees conduct research and business transactions over the Web, though most often they use a shared workstation to do so. Some employees use e-mail for internal communications.

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