By empty (9/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nursultan Nazarbaev inaugurated Kazakhstan\'s largest information-technology (IT) park outside the former capital Almaty on September 15. The new IT park, located within the special economic zone established in 2003 in the village of Alatau, seeks to attract global IT companies and aims to emerge as an \"intellectual center\" for the region. Nazarbaev said that nearly a dozen of the world\'s leading IT and communication companies have already committed to offices and training centers in the Alatau IT City information-technology park.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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