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A new public-private partnership between the Fantom Foundation and the Tajik Ministry of Industry of New Technologies will see the two roll out a range of blockchain-based solutions across nationwide IT infrastructure.

President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is pursuing an ambitious integration of blockchain technology into his government's ongoing modernization drive.

The World Bank today approved a comprehensive project to enhance digital services and improve digital skills in Tajikistan, including dedicated interventions targeting rural areas. The initiative aims to improve the delivery of digitally-enabled public services and boost digital literacy, fostering a more inclusive and resilient economy.

The Tajikistan Digital Foundations Project, with a total funding of $39 million, is supported by an International Development Association (IDA) grant of $30 million and an initial $9 million grant from the Government of Switzerland.

The Dushanbe City Hall and the State Unitary Enterprise (SUE)Smart City plan to build the first IT Park in Tajikistan, Trend reports with reference to Asia-Plus.

The SUE Smart City’s official website says the Dushanbe Technology Park will be the first example of synthesis of science, education and high technologies in Tajikistan.

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified development challenges and sharpened the view on opportunities to overcome them. Evidently, policymakers were confronted with the healthcare system’s limitations, and the socio-economic impacts from the crisis directed the focus on social assistance, agriculture and food processing, and the need for accelerating reforms necessary to develop more of a partnership with the private sector, Jan-Peter Olters, World Bank Country Manager in Tajikistan, wrote in the following opinion article published on the World Bank’s website.

As a country with a young and growing, largely rural population, with legacy challenges of considerable connectivity constraints, Tajikistan has felt acutely institutional and infrastructure constraints during the partial lockdown and strict travel restrictions, with a growing sense of translating these weaknesses into sources of post-crisis recovery and resilience.

The goal is to make the bulk of government documents and agencies accessible to citizens via the internet, said Transport and Communications Ministry Communications Department official Sardor Faridzoda.

The idea surfaced in 2007, but serious discussion began only this year, and President Emomali Rakhmon assigned Faridzoda’s ministry to lead programme implementation.

The technological revolution might come at a cost, but there is a sense that improved communications are even more important as a factor for economic growth in poor countries than is the case in wealthier ones. That at least is the recommendation heard at a recent conference in Dushanbe bringing together experts from former Soviet states like Georgia, Moldova and Russia, as well as others like Afghanistan and the Philippines.

Tajikistan's government, aided by the EU, is creating a unified health information system.

Plans for the e-network began in 2010, Safar Sayfiddinov, director of the Republican Centre for Health Statistics and Information at the Health and Social Protection Ministry, told Central Asia Online, and €5.5m (36.7m TJS) has been budgeted for the project for 2013-2014.

By the time the clock strikes the end of 2025, POS (point-of-sale) terminals will be rolling out across the whole public transport network in Tajikistan, Trend reports via the Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan.

In alignment with this strategic initiative, the public transportation fleet in the capital city of Dushanbe has commenced operations utilizing newly integrated point-of-sale terminals.