OREANDA-NEWS. September 30, 2009. Presentation of Legal Entities Association (LEA) “Internet Association of Kazakhstan” took place at press-center of Informational Agency of “Interfax –Kazakhstan”, timed to 15 anniversary of KazNet, reported the press-centre of Kazakhtelecom.

Mr.Shavkat Sabirov, Vice-President of LEA “Internet Association of Kazakhstan”, Mr.Alexander Lyakhov, Executive Director for LEA “Internet Association of Kazakhstan”, Mr.Konstantin Gorozhankin, Director for Social Fund “National Internet Prize AWARD.kz” and Mr.Andrey Adamenko, Director General  for Information Systems Direction of Kazakhtelecom JSC participated in the press-conference.

Internet so widely burst in our lives that it is difficult to imagine human life whenever he used Internet, noted participants of the conference. Due to the last events, there is misunderstanding of phenomenon “Internet” in society, presentation about it, based on actual facts as min 10 years prescription. In this connection there is a necessity to joining the efforts, directed to organization of effective interaction of suppliers and consumers of information and communication services, provided through Internet.

As a result in May 2009 some companies as shareholders of new non governmental organization– Legal entities association "Internet Association of Kazakhstan", considering its mission, as noted in press-release, "Transformation of Republic of Kazakhstan to competent and respectable member of world Internet-community". Kazakhtelecom JSC became one of main participants of the Association.

As Mr.Andrey Adamenko, Director General for Information Systems Direction of Kazakhtelecom JSC, "our company is doing many things for development of Internet in Kazakhstan as no one. In this connection we welcome new professional organization– Internet Association of Kazakhstan, called to join all participants of Internet market to make it the important sector of country’s economy".

As known, Kazakhtelecom JSC performs large scale work on increasing of attractivity level of Kazakhstan Internet network segment. Internet data centers created in Astana and Almaty (IDC). IT-infrastructure construction of IDC is planned in all Kazakhstan.  Company started to provide hosting services under brand ID Host (www.idhost.kz). Purposeful and active support of Kazakhtelecom JSC in development of Kazakh Internet in 2008 gave first results. Break in disbalance of internal and external company’s traffic took place for the first time. If in the beginning of 2008 the share of internal traffic in consuming Megaline by subscribers (individuals) have not exceeded 10%, in December this index exceeded 56%. In March 2009 this index composed 59,1%.

The following are amongst main tasks of the Association:

World assistance to advanced technologies implementation, based on Internet use in commercial, social and cultural spheres;

Presenting of interests  of participants of Kazakh Internet market in public authorities;

Presenting of achievements of Kazakh Internet market on international level, assistance to active participation of Kazakh companies in international projects;

Methodological and experts support  of local Internet suppliers, establishing and developing quality standards;

Assistance in securing state support and attracting private investments for socially important Internet-projects, particularly, created on state language;

Increase of trust rating of population to Internet –technologies, attractiveness of or advertisers and investors;

Studying and systematization of Kazakh and world experience in the sphere of Internet market development;

Organization and carrying out of educational and scientific and practical conferences, forums and symposiums.

On the subject of participation of new organization, Mr.Shavkat Sabirov, Vice-President of LEA underlined that "leading Kazakh companies of different spheres of activities are attracted to membership in the Association”. These are companies engaged in investments to Kaznet. Internet-companies– providers of Internet access, hosting and registration of domain names, also developers of  Internet resources. Content – providers– owners of electronic means of mass information and mass communications. Educational institutions, research companies, agencies, engaged in PR and Internet-advertisement, owners of on-line payments systems and social networks etc.

IAK is going to actively interact with analogous organizations of other countries, for instance, RAEC (www.raecs.ru) and ROCIT (www.rocit.ru) in Russia or Internet Association of Ukraine (www.inau.org.ua).

Touching the other theme of the conference– 15anniversary of Kaznet, its participants noted that breakup of the Soviet Union with further state sovereignty of the republics  entailed obtaining national upper level domains by these countries (ccTLD) instead of common SU. In particular, the first record in data base of international agency IANA (www.iana.org), referred to the national domain KZ, appeared on 19 September 1994. This day became birth day of Kaznet. Thus, the past Saturday Kaznet celebrated its 15 anniversary.

The 7th sites competition “National Internet-prize AWARD.kz (www.award.kz) which finished on 18-19 November 2009 holds under symbol of 15 anniversary of Kaznet. Arrival of chairman of jury of the competition Mr.Alexander Olshansky, Deputy Chairman of Internet Association of Ukraine and Director of Investment Holding Internet Invest Group is expected to the ceremony of awarding of winners and prize-winners of the competition, also for carrying out master-classes. Registrar of domain names Imena.UA, hosting-providers MiroHost.net and GigaHost.ua, web-studio “Avanport-design”, advert agency PingWin.ua, banner exchange network UBS (banner.kiev.ua), mailing system Mail.ua, service Parking.ua and social network Infostore.org are included to this holding.