ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 5. Digitalization
in Central Asia is gaining momentum, and countries in the region
are increasingly joining forces to form a unified digital
ecosystem, TechnoHub Dushanbe CEO Masrur Ishanov told Trend on the sidelines of
the Digital Bridge 2025 forum.
“Digitalization is changing global trends, simplifying
processes, and transforming activities worldwide. Central Asia has
embarked on this journey at the right time, as evidenced by the two
major forums held in just the past few weeks – in Tashkent (ICT
Week) and now in Kazakhstan (Digital Bridge). This demonstrates
that the countries of the region are ready to unite to develop the
digital economy,” the CEO noted.
According to Ishanov, it’s important for such events to create a
sense of unity.
“We present ourselves not as individual countries – Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, or Tajikistan – but as a region as a whole. At the
forum in Uzbekistan, this worked within the Eurasian context, and
Azerbaijan and other states joined the process,” he said.
The analyst identified three areas that are receiving the
greatest boost from digitalization: GovTech, FinTech, and
e-commerce. The latter, he noted, has already produced the region’s
first tech ‘unicorns’.
Speaking about the situation in this area in Tajikistan, Ishanov
emphasized that digitalization has received a significant boost
over the past year.
“We’ve established an IT park and an agency that acts as a
regulator. We’ve also introduced incentives for the ecosystem. All
of this creates a favorable environment, and we expect rapid growth
in the number of startups in the coming years,” he concluded.
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