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        Institutionalizing Digital Education Ecosystem

        Development in Developing Countries


        How Uzbekistan has created new possibilities for schools, students, parents,

        and government authorities in this digital era




                                                               In  the  Republic of Uzbekistan,  in  order to digitalize  the  school
                                                               education process, improve the computer competence of teachers,
                                                               eliminate the digital inequality and improve the quality of education
                                                               in  general, in  August, 2018  the  Ministry of Public Education
                                                               announced the selection of companies for cooperation in the form
                                                               of a public and private partnership. From among 20 applications,
                                                               the experts selected the Kundalik solution. With over 15 years of
                                                               experience in digital transformation of education and government
                                                               institutions,  Kundalik  International  is  the  operator and  private
                                                               partner for digitalization of education in several CIS countries with
                                                               more than 59 thousand schools connected and 30 million users
                                                               registered.

                                                               As a result,  a public and  private  partnership  agreement  was
                                                               signed between the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic
                                                               of Uzbekistan  and  Kundalik  in  order to develop  a state  digital
                                                               educational ecosystem. The public and private partnership is an
                                                               equal cooperation  between  the  state  and  private  business  as  a
                                                               part  of  which  the  state  saves  budgetary  funds  and  implements
                                                               various projects that could not be implemented without any private
                                                               investments.

                                                                  The     experience      of    countries      that
                                                                  demonstrate the highest results in the field
                                                                  of school education shows that, at present,
                                                                  it  is impossible  to  prepare children  for
                                                                  modern life according to the high standards
        Gabriel Levi
        Founder and CEO                                           without the use of technology.
        Kundalik International
                                                               The developed ecosystem provides digital tools for all members
                                                               of the  educational  process.  For teachers,  this  is  an  electronic
                                                               journal and a homework diary for keeping records relating to the
                                                               attendance/academic progress and other reports in digital format,
                                                               distance learning tools, communication services with the students
                                                               and parents. The parents can get quick access to the important
                                                               information about the  academic process  and  success  of their
                                                               children.  The  students,  regardless  of their  location,  can  obtain





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