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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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