Building a Tech Future in Kyrgyzstan | Hello World with Ashlee Vance
Situated between China and Russia, the tiny former Soviet nation of Kyrgyzstan is hoping to join the global tech economy by empowering content creators like the mega-successful @dbillions and training up an army of coders and engineers.
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Loved every minute of filming this. What a remarkable country. Plus, you know, I got to become a superhero. Hope you all enjoy!!
You really think someone will spend 50 minutes on this? ;)
American super daddy rulz
@@zzzz7217 It's objectively not that long
Tech need huge some of money, just for huawei china is subsidize almost 80billions usd in 20years 😂😂
save us!!!
By far the most inspiring "Hello World" episode till now. Thank you Ashlee!
Couldn't agree with you more. This is my all-time favourite!
thx!!!
@@juanmanuelestevez62 oh, amazin
Kyrgyzstan is our neighbor and clothest brother at the same time, Salam from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿🇰🇬♥️
Thanks a lot! I wish once we become a strong highly developed alliance including Kazakhstan like Scandinavian countries. Hugs and best wishes from Kyrgyzstan
The school portion blew me away, you can see the respect and quality of education those kids are getting and hopefully be able to live and thrive in their country
Tolondu has a big heart
in the desert (no resources) with highest nepotism? Not even a theoretical chance. There's no magic.
@@fontende Kyrgyzstan is not a desert, it's a mountainous country(>90%)
Respect from Tajikistan
I’ve spent the last four months in Central Asia, and one of the many things I found fascinating is the difference between Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan/Tajikistan regarding locals’ optimism when asked “how do you see your future?” My own, at least, experience, having talked to a dozen people in each country, is that young people in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan see a future for themselves in their country. They don’t think prospering and being happy will be a walk in the park, they are fully aware of the problems and challenges, but they did seem pretty optimistic to me, pretty “there are opportunities, things are changing, slowly, but changing”. On the other hand, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are full, and I mean FULL of “Green Card” offices. It feels like many people’s dream is to leave the country, move preferably to the US or western Europe. Many youngsters I talked to, looked pessimistic, as in, “I’m studying hard to get a diploma which I won’t really be able to use to get a proper job in that field. If I stay here I’ll end up doing something irrelevant to what I’m studying, just to… survive”. Then again, this may be a ridiculously oversimplistic view of a passer-by who passed 30-45 days in each country. I’m just sharing impressions here, not rock-solid research results. Needless to add, excellent piece on Kyrgyzstan. Made me feel like subscribing and watching more videos.
No you’re right, as a Russian and U.S. citizen, I have noticed the more comfortable and high-tech life is for the younger generation, the more spoiled by luxury they are, the more pessimistic and less creative they are… they end up doing the whole “I’m moving to where the grass is greener” ordeal even though it’s a total illusion and the grass is not in fact greener, they just want more than they have already, which is a whole lot… meanwhile American kids just don’t understand there is a world outside of the U.S. in the first place and if you tell them that they will argue that they do understand but I know they don’t actually understand, which is a distinct difference between other nations and the U.S…
All the characters in video are highly aware that Kyrgyzstan has no oil, mineral ,natural resources. So they can only bet on human talent, productivity.. they even cherish that fact. I respect them so much.
Yes, rise and thrive!
It has a lot of water and a lot of gold…
they are not developed into democracy and curse of all small countries without democracy is nepotism, so job only to few. All Central Asia too young for democracy, in XXth century with empires help it only ended feudal tribes period with real human markets, 100 years by history is almost yesterday. They can't achieve democracy without living through monarchy, which also not developed, Kazachstan almost made their monarchy, but it's ended without creating aristocracy and elites. Human society developing cycles are universal everywhere. You can't have an egg without chicken, which not born yet. Standard undeveloped country which returning into feudal model, you can be a caveman with iphone in our century, many polinesian tribes proved that.
@@fontendewestern democracy is a delusion to underdeveloped and developing countries, it hits a dead end like it or not.
@@fontendeAre you talking about Switzerland?
May your nation prosper dear Kyrgyz cousins. Greeting from 🇺🇿
Thank you for covering this country in a way that wasn't tourist vlog style. Mixing history lessons into your video was classy. As an American, I went to Kyrgyzstan with a tour group of people from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan before the pandemic. It is such a beautiful country, the people are amazing, food is good, if you love horseback riding it is a core of their cultural. It is difficult not to fall in love with Kyrgyzstan after a couple weeks.
Glad you enjoyed the effort. We try
Биздин өлкөбүздү дүйнө элдерине жакшы тарабы менен көргөзгөн "Блумберг" командасына чоң рахмат. Силерге дагы алдыда чоң чоң чыгармачылык ийгиликтер каалайм!🎉🎉🎉
Саясаттарылышып кетиптир, өзгөчө феминизм деген балээ. Блумбергтин башка тасмалары түзүк тартылат саясаты жок, илим техникага басым жасап. Феминистердин уюмдары Кыргызстанга чакырганы көрүнүп эле турат. Бул жерде көк бөрүчүлөр менен D Billions дурустар. Жанагы Динара Руслан, эже сиңди Навигаил, Кыз жибек, анан тиги башына жоолук хиджап бирок ич кийим бюсгалтерчен Зере деген өзүн ырчымын деп атаган фиминистерди тааныйбыз. Бул блумбергтин 80% контенти ачык айкын праганда болуп чыкты! 🤢
Алакачуу жондо уккум келбей калды 😢 ар бироо бурмулай берет Уят короче
Булар агентер.
1:19: 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, a small country with a Soviet past, is a mix of beauty and grimness as it strives to establish a fragile democracy. 5:58: 🎵 D Billions is a group focusing on kids songs and they have gained billions of views on their music videos. 10:55: 🎥 The video explores the experience of working at D Billions and their unique approach to creativity and teamwork. 17:47: 😮 The video discusses the backlash and death threats faced by a feminist artist for her work and how it has affected her. 24:53: 👩💻 Two sisters in Kyrgyzstan are working in the tech industry to create a homegrown tech industry and serve as an economic engine for the country's future. 29:13: 👩💻 Dinara stayed in Kyrgyzstan and started her own coding school to prepare young ones for the future economy. 35:30: 🏫 A man in Kyrgyzstan is building schools to foster creative and critical thinking. 38:56: 🎨 The importance of art in education and its connection to science and technology. 43:59: 🛰 The video discusses the development of CubeSat and its significance for a country's space industry. Recap by Tammy AI
“I’m glad we don’t have any natural resources” is one of the most low key insightful quotes you’ll hear. Some of the most successful countries are the ones where the people had to fight, earn, and innovate their way to survival without the blessing of energy, mineral, or agricultural wealth. Switzerland, Israel, Rwanda, and to a lesser extent, the Asian tigers like Korea, Taiwan, or Singapore all had to innovate internally without much of any natural resources.
Kyrgyz Republic actually have natural resources but struggling to use them
To be fair, Switzerland is innovative because it is tax heaven and this allows them to be innovative and a country which screws developing and poor countries by allowing their wealthy and corrupt to park their money. Same with Singapore, it was innovative before. Now it is another tax heaven. It is not all black and white with every wealthy country.
Rwanda ($822pp) has less than 1/10th the GDP per capita of mexico. which itself has 1/7th the GDP per capita of the US. wouldn't call it successful
You forgot about the grand-daddy Asian tiger: Japan, which imports everything and was the model for the others.
But you know, this statement is fundamentally wrong. For example, a Canadian company has taken out of the country hundreds of tons of gold, which can cover the annual budget of the country. We have enough resources, but the state does not have the technology to put it into production and there are not enough specialists, and in addition, there is a very high rate of corruption and officials stole so much that your millionaires could not even dream of it. This was truly the biggest robbery of a country in history. In general, Kyrgyzstan is a relatively young country and has no experience in such things.
Kyrgyz women are a true inspiration ❤
I know a guy from Kyrgyzstan, now working in tech company in Bellevue, Washington.
I am very thankful to you, for making this great documentary about my country and giving us the opportunity, and for helping the world businesses find talent.
Adi Tokyo go chakyrsan bolmok
A documentary that I didn't looked for, but I definitely needed. Very inspiring!
Ma shaa Allah, we wish all the best for our brothers and sisters in Kyrgyz Republic. That is good OKR for Kyrgyz people to growth their economy. In the early future we should have more successful projects from our Central Asian region. Hope you can achieve your vision in the coming years with the best human development. Best regards from 🇰🇿
In Kyrgyzstan, winter and summer are completely different. Because there are a lot of trees in Bishkek. Bishkek is very beautiful in summer than in winter
Much respect to their Hustle
Thumbs up for the Kyrgyz 🇰🇬 people. Proud of them.
Thank you for the amazing video. I think in future Kyrgyzstan became a part of the technology and development country in the world. Kyrgyzstan is small country, with big heart ❤️
I can see the power of women in Kyrgyzstan! Well done
As a father of a daughter and son I hope all these young women do great things for their country and then the world.
What an amazing video. Kyrgyzstan has some of the most hospitable people in the world, with a beautiful and proud heritage that is being kept alive. You show a side of the country that is hardly ever exposed - thank you for that! One thing to remember is that some of the remnants of the Soviet school system are the foundation of women's liberation in areas like this. Sciences and arts were taught even in the most remote parts of this otherwise injust and inhumane empire.
@Sjabalis Hello thanks for your positive comment, only one correction: in Kyrgyz culture women have always had equal rights as men, long before Russian colonization due to our nomadic culture. Communism brought a lot of elements of material comfort and alphabetisation among the people, and also death, repression and exodus (near 40% of the population was killed from 1916 to 1930's).
@@adikdjo7081 oh yes is that why they get raped and kidnapped and forced into marriage? You must be joking. Unless by equal rights you mean the right to exist as long as it is UNDER the orders of men.
Kyrgyz culture was always ahead of Europe in woman’s rights. It never needed soviet “liberation”. Research Tengrism.
@@thekraken1173 Research the religion of Kyrgyz people which is Islam, and has been for a long time, not Tengrism.
@@gehdochnicht So you think when Kyrgyz people became muslims they forgot all their traditions and assimilated into peninsula arabs? Wow great logic right there. Do you also claim Spaniards and Icelanders are very similar just because they are christian europeans?
WOW! I am so proud of every kyrgyzstani from this documentary.
AWESOME!!!! HARİKA!!!!! TÜRKİYE"DEN SELAMLAR!!!!
First time watching your video. I like it so much. The narration, the interviews... The scenic visuality, the characters and the setting. Those made me finish watching the show! I like the way you portray the kind of people Kyrgystan has. Great documentary! 😊
This has been fantastic advert for Kyrgyz women and shows how technology can improve things when centered on education system.
Love these Documentaries! Great work Ashlee and the entire team.
Ashley, thanks for featuring my country- insightful, empowering, and worthy! 🇰🇬💪🏻
Its interesting to me how ethnically ambiguous the people of Kyrgyzstan appear. They are like eastern european middle east-asian. In that sense I suppose they certainly look like the future.
40:38 I agree. My country Switzerland also doesn't have any meaningful Ressources (in the classical sense, oil etc) and it made us the most innovative, and one of the most prosperous nations on the planet. There's no reason they can't do something similar in the central Asian context....
Yes , they are just started to sort it out , which direction to move, and the Kyrgyz people are very smart, open minded,clearly they have a potential to be a successful in the future
@@JamesSmith-ix5jd 😂👎 Go read a book
Hey didn't switzerland get all the money because france during napoleonic wars, and Germany during two world wars gave you all the gold since you were neutral and then you just kept it to yourself no?
Ashlee Vance has consistently been one of Bloomberg's best reporters imo. Always an auto-click from me when a new documentary of his pops up on my recommended page. He asks the right questions, makes concise, information dense content, and does not make the story about him while still staying entertaining. Keep it up :)
@hadikhan4111 well, thanks so much!
Thanks for the great documentary. It presents to the world the aspirations and hope in a country and its people. Question: there was nothing said about China, not even the name of China was mentioned in the documentary. Why the title “Building a tech future in ….China’s shadow”?
Without China they cannot fabricate the news
China and Russia are likely put in the title of the video to give the viewer a better idea of where Kyrgyzstan is situated geographically, and also because they are two very big countries that are seen as very important in the world today.
The D Billions group in my opinion has a secret weapon though, the group is really likeable and the songs are short, they don't just go and go like baby shark and get annoying
What a wonderful person! (The one who's starting all the schools)
I did not expect to spend 47 minutes watching a report about Kyrgyzstan, but I did. Good reporting. Lovely people. Nice to see women blazing the way in a Muslim country.
Not Muslim country.
More like secular although the majority is Muslim
@@Albelekov калп айтпачы.
It is technically a Muslim country but Islam was NEVER a big thing in Kyrgyzstan, even before Soviet colonization. Instead it is tradiotional Turkic nomadic culture which defines Kyrgyz society. To be fair rich Arab countries spend a lot of money trying to convert population to their version of Islam nowadays.
@@daddylubarsky3049 it is big thing in the country I am Kyrgyz myself born and raised here. like I said country is secular but majority is practicing Muslims it is not like in Turkey where you can see empty mosques,our mosques full every Friday prayer, even in businesses days it still pretty much full
I've heard of Kyrgyzstan. I've met Kyrgyz people. But I've never heard of D Billions before (-:
Beautiful people in a beautiful land trying to grow and be great. Love it!
So happy to see stories coming out of other places but the usual ones. Thanks Bloomberg Originals ❤
Really cool. The risk is that many of the well trained young people will leave for better shores but hopefully some will come back to improve the country.
Great documentary highlighting an overlooked nation. Hope their tech efforts can continue improving but I’m already struck at the English proficiency of the locals interviewed 👍👍
Have to admit. I was surprised by this as well. Was quite strong
В смысле забытая нация?
просмотреть, пропустить, не заметить деген мааниде overlooked дегени@@AzizKurmanaliev-ny1fi
How come no one mentioned that East Asian looking people living in Kyrgyzstan are mostly ethnic Mongolian? East Asian looking people living in Uzbekistan are mostly ethnic Lao people they came from southern China during a Tang Dynasty.
@@Kingofthehill84 This is wrong. Kyrgyz people are ancient people of Turkic origin who lived in East Siberia (Baikal region) prior to migrating into Central Asia (see Kyrgyz Kaganate for example). Likely there is some Mongolian and Manchurian genetic admixture but CULTURALLY those are VERY DIFFERENT nations. Kyrgyz are culturally very closely related to Kazakh people, then Usbeks, and after that to the rest of Turkic people: to Uygurs, Tatars, Bashkirs, Turkmen, Azerbaijanis and Turkish people.
it is amazing that all the interviewees speak fluebt English. Open to the world, learning from the world is so important for economic development. English is one of the fundamental tools.
Thanks for this documentary. Also there plenty kyrgyzs in Silicon Valley
every year more and more kyrgyz people working in top tech companies
I really love to watch Bloomberg documentaries specially with presenter Ashlee Vance, thank you AV
Thank you for the film! You should go there in summer two!
I'm glad to see that we, Central Asians can be seen or known more outside of the Russian world and hopefully as a capable nation with high skilled labour. Hope you will cover more about region and its innovative companies, Kaspi of Kazakhstan, Alif of Tajikistan and etc. Thanks for this video. Hope Kyrgyzstan will retain its talents and have a great future. My best wishes to our neighbours from Tajikistan. God bless you all.
aww thank you you're so sweet and kind :) Greetings from Kyrgystan. May Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and the whole CA region prosper in the future)
So the "My name is Chiky" is Kyrgyz! 😮😮
I now like Kyrgyzstan. I knew less about that country
This is really refreshing and inspiring. Really love the Hello World series
This was excellent. Thanks, Superdad!
I think this was the best documentary i watched 2023 thank you guys for doing such a documentary.
Is so inspiring to see people going back to their country to help develop it. I also want to go back to my country Uruguay and help, God willing I'll be back in some years
I love this video! I was in Kyrgyzstan many years ago and it was such a memorable moment in my life. I loved the people there and always root for them to succeed.
considering small population of Kyrgyzstan i feel like it wont be long journey to change the dynamics of country.
Very sensitive journalism. Congrats!
YOUR DOCUMENTARY INSTILLS ME WITH HOPE , ITS FULL OF PERSEVERANCE AND I LOVE YOU
crazy, ive spent many winters at Manas Airport. This is so different from what i saw in Kyrgzstan, happy to see them growing.
Big thanks Ashlee and all of the crew, to bring all of this here, on such a representation level! It's all about my lovely Homeland and its bright forthcoming future. 🙌 - With warm regards, Andrew. Cheers!
I really enjoyed my trip to Kyrgyzstan last spring. But the fact is, that after visiting Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan I have this feeling that the country that misses the most Soviet Union is Kyrgyzstan out of the three. They still got their Lenins in some places, I even saw primary school bearing his name :)))))) and they still got Militsya instead of Police.
It’s not that we miss Soviet Union.. that just again reflects the fact that the country hasn’t been modernized as the others (that do have natural resources).
@@Caulfield888amen
Lenin is part of our history, we don't deny history, that's all.
By the way, I studied at that school)) and I hate this
Great video and love the final remarks!
Ashlee is one of the best anchors I have seen on KZhead
thanks for the documentary! I wish western countries had started to notice - How much The Kyrgyz Republic wanna be free from big countries influence and open to the world in peace
Loved every minute of watching this!
Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 was a democratic country, but now everything is changing for the worse. I love my country for the free spirit
Great stuff!! More please
Thank you Ashlee for such a beautiful coverage of tech potential of our country, was great to have you in our country and to have a chance to talk about our work as women at the upfront of tech transformation in Kyrgyzstan.
Jesus, Ashlee! This was fascinating. God bless those working for their nations economic success.
That has to be one of Vance's best videos. Color. Action. Adversity and suffering. Indigenous. Hope. And so on. The kids show is very much like my granddaughter, a very high IQ, child watches in Canada and I had wondered where it came from. This documentary should be distributed in First Nations communities in Canada. I'm sure they'd license it commercially because they too want to distribute their arts and ways and they'll all getting wired a fiberoptic speed. They love the content they can get. There's this amazing high tech tool to get their contact info, Google. That's once you get to know their society.
Thank you!!
Awesome as always Ashlee!
This is so great. Everyone should see this. Ashley Vance is great.
It’s a great and inspiring documentary about Kyrgyz people👍🏻🔥🚀
This was amazing! Thank you Ashlee
The people that come back to inferior home and build to change. Melts my heart everytime. Love these people!
Watching this makes me view my country from a different angle, and I'm pleased to see that people are working hard to change Kyrgyzstan for a better future. Kyrgyz society should contemplate the practice of Bride Kidnapping with a more progressive, civilian perspective rather than attaching strictly to traditional methods, along with addressing various other cultural norms and ethics.
Did you people know that East Asian looking people living in Kazakhstan are mostly ethnic Mongolian?
Great documentary and the interviewer was awesome!
Super documentary! I'm a third generation IT professional. The only advice my grandfather and father ever gave me was "Don't study IT!" It's so cyclical you'll never know if you can land a job by the time you graduate. But organic livestock is a golden goose forever. You haven't lived until you've tasted horse meat salami.
Brilliant. Thanks very much
Ashlee makes some of my favorite documentaries.
amazing and inspiring
Great work, Ashlee!
Excellent look at their future through the eyes of those who are living it.
Just discovered Hello World. Love it!
You guys choose the right way of development. I wish a luck and prosperity for Kyrgyz people. Greetings from KZ
Great video and amazing color gradation.
This was super refreshing!!!!
Legit had no clue where the D Billions people were from. My toddlers watch the song videos on YT, good on em.
Thank you for an exciting video
This is beautiful Africa must hear this too am already a subscriber to the D Billions i wana learn the art behind the cameras coz that's all matters❤
And i thought it's more desertous/tropical one. That would be amazing to see any state of world as glorious society with 75% medium strata workers without any poor or ultra-rich ones.
Amazing episode
My kid watching d billion everyday
So many inspiring people, who put their money and energy into something they really believe, that's awesome! Greetings from Russia, успехов вам ребята
Kyrgyzstan ❤
Absolutely terrific program, so good you interviewed a variety of different people.
some of y'alls finest work -- and that's saying a lot!
Too kind. Thank you!
Fantastic documentary to stumble upon!
Everyone in DBillions appears to be 22 years old -
Nice video❤ I've been kyrgyzstan! So lovely country
Very interesting and a good watch ⌚