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Financial Centre and the WEF signed a letter of intent to establish a Fourth Industrial Revolution Affiliation Center aimed to help create the policy and regulatory framework to encourage innovations in areas of AI, machine learning, robotics, data policies, as well as IoT and Smart City development. Kazakhstani large companies are in the initial phase of introducing robotic technologies into manufacturing processes. According to available statistics, less than 2% of 130 thousand enterprises surveyed use robotics in production. In the regional context, Almaty is a leader where 62% of surveyed robotic enterprises are located and 16% in Nur-Sultan.
UAV Industry: Kazakhstan is the world’s ninth largest country by landmass with 45% of its 18 million population living in rural areas. The current market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and associated services is characterized by experts as small but developing. Market participants are divided into three groups including companies engaged in assembly of UAVs, service companies providing monitoring and data collection, and distributors. The second group includes 10-15 small- and medium-sized companies that have purchased drones abroad and provide aerial surveillance and imaging services. In a separate category are large oil & gas and mineral resources companies that can afford the purchase of expensive drones, provide training of pilots and specialists for analyzing the data collected. Local experts predict that weakened revenue flows related to the COVID-19 pandemic could become a key driver for development of the UAV market as companies look to reduce human capital costs. The use of UAV in geodetic surveys, cadastral works, agricultural monitoring, transportation sector, protection and environmental monitoring of oil and gas transmission lines, monitoring of power lines and surveillance of state borders has strong potential for growth over the near term. As of June 2020, 277 UAVs were registered in Kazakhstan.
5G Technologies: According to the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation & Aerospace Industry, the transition to 5G in Kazakhstan will be phased. A government procurement for a 5G integrated radio access network is expected to be launched in April, 2021. In 2022, residents of megacities are planned to switch to the new standard, then regional centers will come online by 2025. The development of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, Smart City, IoT, OpenAPI and Big Data will be enabled by the rollout of 5G technologies. In support of 5G deployment in Kazakhstan, Transtelecom and Azertelecom companies are working on a project to lay a 400 km high-speed fiber-optic communication line at a speed of 4-6 terabits per second across the bottom of the Caspian Sea between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. The start of the project is scheduled for the spring of 2021 and is planned to be completed in 2022.
Best Prospects for U.S. Exports / Opportunities
ACI, http://www.aci.it/
ANCMA, http://www.ancma.it/
ANFIA, https://www.anfia.it/en/
AUTOPROMOTEC, https://www.autopromotec.com/en/
ENERGY STRATEGY REPORT, https://www.energystrategy.it/assets/files/SMR_20_webdef29_10.pdf
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