11.11.2025 16:31:00
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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed Decree No. 1081, approving the core principles, values, and directions of domestic policy. The document systematizes state-building approaches, including legal, social, and technological guidelines. For the first time at the domestic policy level, the roles of digitalization and AI are defined as drivers of sustainable development.
The text explicitly states: a new technological order is forming based on large-scale digitalization and the use of AI. These processes affect social structures in modern societies, including Kazakhstan. The state recognizes the need to adapt institutions to these changes, revising citizen engagement mechanisms and modernizing infrastructure.
Digitalization is not treated as a separate sector; it is embedded within the core principles of domestic policy. For example, the “Listening State” principle is implemented via digital projects: the E-Otinish portal, online petitions, and open data.
The decree emphasizes the need to introduce digital technologies, particularly AI, into law enforcement and legal practice, and to boost trust in the justice system through digital solutions. This means technology should become part of institutional trust and legal culture.
Kazakhstan is already implementing several principles highlighted in the document. In September, Parliament initiated work on the Digital Code — a project defining key digitalization directions: AI, digital systems and platforms, and open data.
Experts from EDF have joined the working group of the Mazhilis to contribute to the document.
In October, the Mazhilis adopted the Law “On Artificial Intelligence.” It regulates AI use in the public and quasi-public sectors, introduces mandatory liability insurance for harm caused by AI, and bans risky practices, such as covert biometric analytics.
Notably, the law incorporates recommendations developed with EDF experts regarding the prohibition of risky biometric analytics practices.
Kazakhstan’s domestic policy can no longer be separated from the technological agenda.
New regulatory acts set the framework for digital transformation as a state task.
The text explicitly states: a new technological order is forming based on large-scale digitalization and the use of AI. These processes affect social structures in modern societies, including Kazakhstan. The state recognizes the need to adapt institutions to these changes, revising citizen engagement mechanisms and modernizing infrastructure.
Digitalization is not treated as a separate sector; it is embedded within the core principles of domestic policy. For example, the “Listening State” principle is implemented via digital projects: the E-Otinish portal, online petitions, and open data.
The decree emphasizes the need to introduce digital technologies, particularly AI, into law enforcement and legal practice, and to boost trust in the justice system through digital solutions. This means technology should become part of institutional trust and legal culture.
Kazakhstan is already implementing several principles highlighted in the document. In September, Parliament initiated work on the Digital Code — a project defining key digitalization directions: AI, digital systems and platforms, and open data.
Experts from EDF have joined the working group of the Mazhilis to contribute to the document.
In October, the Mazhilis adopted the Law “On Artificial Intelligence.” It regulates AI use in the public and quasi-public sectors, introduces mandatory liability insurance for harm caused by AI, and bans risky practices, such as covert biometric analytics.
Notably, the law incorporates recommendations developed with EDF experts regarding the prohibition of risky biometric analytics practices.
Kazakhstan’s domestic policy can no longer be separated from the technological agenda.
New regulatory acts set the framework for digital transformation as a state task.
