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Digital Skills & AI-Readiness Framework for Teachers — Kyrgyz Republic

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A Korea-World Bank programme built Kyrgyzstan's first digital-skills framework and teacher training course, training ~36,000 teachers (80% women) and equipping 1,200 schools by 2025, with an AI-readiness diagnostic component since replicated in Romania and Türkiye.

~36,000 80% women
Teachers trained in digital skills (2020-2025)
1,200
Schools equipped with IT platform (by 2025)
900
Deputy principals trained in digital leadership
Digital Skills & AI-Readiness Framework for Teachers — Kyrgyz Republic

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, with the World Bank and the Korea–World Bank Group Partnership Facility
Period
2020–2025 (framework and rollout); AI-readiness diagnostic since replicated in Romania and Türkiye
Keywords
teacher training, digital skills, AI readiness, public education infrastructure

Context

Through the Korea-World Bank Group Partnership Facility, the World Bank and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic built the country's first digital-skills assessment framework and its first pedagogy-focused training course for informatics teachers, alongside an emerging 'AI-readiness' diagnostic for the education system.

Activities

Between 2020 and 2025 the programme delivered digital-skills training to roughly 36,000 teachers (80% women), equipped 1,200 schools with an IT platform for technology-enabled teaching, ran a 32-week mentoring programme (2023-2025), and trained 900 deputy principals in digital leadership.

Results

The World Bank reports the AI-readiness diagnostic developed for Kyrgyzstan has since been replicated in Romania and Turkiye.

Conclusions

Evidence for the AI-specific component is still limited: published results describe infrastructure and general digital-skills reach rather than measured AI-related learning outcomes, and the 'AI-readiness' framing appears mainly in the programme's most recent (2026) reporting rather than from the outset.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M) — Funded via the Korea-World Bank Group Partnership Facility; total programme cost not disclosed in sources reviewed.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — 2020-2025 programme; AI-readiness diagnostic replicated elsewhere from 2026 reporting.
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, World Bank, Korea-World Bank Group Partnership Facility

Conditions for success

  • multi-year (5-year) programme horizon combining infrastructure, training and mentoring
  • 32-week structured mentoring programme for sustained skill uptake

Common failure modes

  • published results describe infrastructure and general digital-skills reach rather than measured AI-specific learning outcomes

Where it fits

Governance type
national ministry with multilateral donor financing
Scale
national (Kyrgyz Republic)
Income level
lower-middle income (Kyrgyzstan)

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