Things Kyrgyzstan should do

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Improve transportation infrastructure

  • especially roads between different areas of the country

Take a census

  • with attention to language use and identity

Improve water infrastructure

with attention to

  • waste water treatment
  • agricultural usage

Improve electricity infrastructure

  • especially using wind and solar

Reform education

Improve access to education, with attention to

  • textbooks in languages other than Russian
  • minority-language education
  • training of [future] teachers

Restructure education:

  • The idea
    • Develop useful real-life knowledge and skills
    • Provide understanding of the wider world
    • Instill values of individual thinking, problem solving, community building, etc.
  • Curriculum refocus:
    • Real-life skills:
      • Agriculture, modern and traditional
      • Economics, with focus on trade
      • Computer science
    • Education on outside world:
      • Cultural studies / folklore
      • Modern geography
    • General education:
      • hard sciences
      • social sciences
      • arts

Things already getting done

These things are getting done mostly because there's a private-sector profit incentive

  • Communications infrastructure