Kazakhstan and Belarus build digital bridges
At a round table in Minsk, Kazakhstan presented its strategy toward a fully digital state by 2028. Plans include doubling DC capacity with the turn-up of Akashi in Astana.
On 12 December 2025, Kazakhstan’s embassy in Belarus hosted a round table on the role of digital technology and AI in the two countries’ economic cooperation. Ambassador Timur Zhaksylykov presented Kazakhstan’s roadmap toward a fully digital state by 2028 — a vision articulated by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Where Kazakhstan stands today
Kazakhstan ranks in the UN’s top-10 for online services and 24th in the e-government index. More than 90% of public services are delivered online; the services catalogue exceeds 1,200 items. In H1 2025, digital platforms delivered over 25M services — about half via mobile.
The eGovMobile app has 11M+ registered users. Childbirth is registered in one click; vehicle and property transactions close in minutes thanks to AI checks and automatic data-exchange between agencies.
AI in public administration
The e-Otinish AI assistant handles 4M+ citizen requests per year. The “Digital Family Card” analyzes 100 parameters and produces a daily wellbeing index covering 6M families.
Kazakhstan runs its own LLMs: KazLLM and the upgraded AlemLLM, trained on 246B tokens. In 2025 this powered the multi-agent platform alem.GPT, integrated with public services.
Infrastructure foundation
The backbone: Kazteleport (Almaty), Sairam Tier III (Almaty), and cloud providers Ahost and PS Cloud Services. Total IT-rack count is ~4,000. In 2026, Akashi Data Center — the first Tier IV in Central Asia — comes online with 4,200 racks, doubling the country’s total capacity.
Law and regulation
On 3 December 2025, Parliament adopted the Digital Code — a unified legal framework for the digital economy, covering AI, Big Data, and cybersecurity. The AI Law, signed 17 November, is the first in the post-Soviet space.
“Kazakhstan and Belarus share a bet on digitalization as the driver of non-resource growth,” said Belarus Deputy Minister of Economy Kirill Masharsky. The two sides discussed a possible joint venture fund for the digital sector and cooperation on GovTech, digital cartography, and training of national language models.