Kostanay region is among the TOP 5 regions in terms of digital development

This was announced by the head of the region Kumar Aksakalov at a meeting held in the akimat of the region. During the meeting, the interim results of work in the field of digitalization and artificial intelligence were summed up, as well as the results achieved and further tasks of the digital development of the region were discussed.
Presentations were made by Azamat Kashiev, Head of the Department of Informatization, Public Services and Archives, Damir Mnaydarov, Director of the Qostanai Hub, and Assel Abakova, Director of Government Relations at the Republican Association for Artificial Intelligence.
The Head of State declared 2026 the Year of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, in the 2025 Address, the President set the task of turning Kazakhstan into a full-fledged digital country over the next three years.
The number of IT companies in the region has increased from 318 in 2022 to 362. The average salary of industry specialists increased almost 1.5 times compared to 2023 and amounted to 467 thousand tenge in August of this year.
In 2025, the volume of non-cash payments in the region reached 3.1 trillion tenge, an increase of 55% compared to 2022. The share of non-cash payments in the total volume of payments in the region increased from 74.8% in 2022 to 84.6% this year.
If in 2022 enterprises allocated more than 10 billion tenge for digital technologies, then in 2025 this figure amounted to 18.4 billion tenge. In the first half of this year alone, 9.8 billion tenge was allocated for these purposes.
"The level of digital literacy of the population has increased from 82.9% in 2023 to 92.3% in 2025. According to the results of the PISA-2025 study, our students ranked third in the republic in terms of solving digital problems. The region has entered the TOP 5 regions in terms of digital development. In two years, the share of large and medium–sized enterprises using digital technologies has doubled, from 23.9% in 2023 to 45.8% in 2025. In terms of the level of digitalization of industry, Kostanay region ranks first in Kazakhstan. If in 2023 there were only two industrial robots at enterprises, then in three years their number reached 150," the head of the region noted.
Automated lines and digital systems have been introduced in the agro-industrial complex on dairy farms. The next task is to expand the use of digital solutions in crop production, the introduction of intelligent irrigation systems and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.