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List of Publications:
According to the national statistics bureau, the number of registered individual entrepreneurs (IE) in the country decreased by 2.4% in a month, while the number of entrepreneurs grew by 8.5% throughout 2023. The "Voice of the People" editorial team decided to explore how the decline in individual entrepreneurship is related to the introduction of universal income declaration. Could this mean that entrepreneurs will move to the shadow business or close their projects?
Welcome to the "Omurzakov live" channel. The host – Tursunbek Omurzakov - Doctor of Economic Sciences, Public figure, Entrepreneur, Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan V convocation (2012—2016). Our channel does not feature entertainment shows. Our content is for people who think and are interested in the entire spectrum of socio-political life in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Material No. 6 in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Material No. 7, the final material in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Japan is launching a five-year program to develop a national multimodal AI model for robots and autonomous manufacturing: 378.3 billion yen in the first year, annual stage-gate audits, and the transfer of trained weights to the entire ecosystem. We break down the program based on primary sources — and what Kazakhstan should take note of.
The first material opens the TALAP series and sets the global context: strategic foresight is becoming part of contemporary management practice.
The second material shows how TALAP is turning the global practice of strategic foresight into its own tool for Kazakhstan.
The third material documents a practical test of the approach against the economic agenda of Q1 2026.
