Build yourself, or will we wait?

The Internet is increasingly penetrating the masses in our country, and today every third Kazakhstani uses it. At the end of 2009, there were 3.16 million people in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which amounted to 19.8% of the population (information from ICT-Marketing). And as the trend (and the state’s steps in this direction) shows, in the future this number will grow and most likely at a faster pace.

I publish the post of the habruzovatel LIAL , zaminsovany in holivarny fights and not having the ability to write. Everyone can help throwing karma .



But, despite this, ordinary users are more attracted to the Russian and foreign segments of the network, but not to their own Kaznet. On the one hand, this is normal, since the low proportion of sites with high-quality content on Kaznet makes it all the same felt. But on the other hand, we use the Internet not only as consumers of information, but also as consumers of goods and services, but here it all begins.

Looking at Runet, you begin to envy, why do not we have this? I wanted to buy something - please, if only there was a desire. And he bought, and paid, and delivered. And we have? Okay, I bought it, with paid, the difficulties begin, although surmountable (I have to make a lot of unnecessary “movements”), they delivered quite poorly, and especially to the regions - that is, those main places that need all this (well, they don’t have such an abundance goods both in capitals or other large cities).

The situation is better with services, since there are no problems with delivery, but the other side arises: services that should know and take into account the specifics of the Kaznet, the state, are simply almost absent as a class. For example: SEO or the interaction of banks with electronic means of payment, etc. (you can actually come up with a lot of examples if you dig around).

Yes, many will say how we can influence all this? The Internet is huge, there is no opportunity to “push” or “ask” the bank, and we are powerless to change anything. But you do not need to try to change the situation, you need to change the attitude towards it. Let's not forget that we, the Internet users, are not a small mass. The same bank, for example, conducting an analysis of the need for any services and not observing the needs, will not do anything. But if the benefit is obvious, and not in an isolated case, then you won’t have to ask for anything, they themselves will be interested in their implementation.
Now the most important thing is what all this was led to.

The first one. All users of Habr, and in particular readers of the Kaznet blog, people are smart enough and somehow connected with IT: developers, designers, project managers, freelancers, etc. Many of you are directly involved in the development of any projects or have their own sites. Let's not forget about the KZ zone and understand that sooner or later it will not just be in demand, but will represent the main segment, where residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan will receive information or use the services. It is better to be the discoverers of any services on Kaznet and it is not necessary to immediately receive money from this, because in the future it can bring more dividends.

Let’s not be afraid to understand what a simple user needs to go to the site in KZ (knowing that they will deliver goods, that he can pay with his card, etc.), we didn’t look for crooked options - only you know how it all functions and can be implemented within the framework of your country. Let's just do what is in our power to improve the quality of content and services, and we will reap the benefits later.

The second one. In order not to be unfounded, I wanted to say from myself: there are a lot of ideas in fact (some have a commercial component, some are not), some have been worked out in general terms (development plans, implementations, registered domain names, etc. have been drawn up ), but there is not much time for implementation, and subsequent control. And it’s not interesting to one to think how this or that service should look like and not everything can be foreseen (one head is good, but more is better). In fact, this post was conceived not so much as a cry of the soul, but rather as a search for like-minded people in the creation and implementation of useful services in Kaznet.

The third. To continue the second point: I will share a couple of ideas, who wants to participate, write in a personal message: what can you offer and how do you see your participation.

dombra.kz - it is thought to implement a site where there will be a history of the development of the instrument, its types, capabilities, communication of musicians, ways or school of the game, where to learn, etc. The option is considered as not only specialization in dombra, but maybe also in other musical instruments of Kazakhstan and communication of all musicians. The project is social, it is not planned to benefit from it. I will bear the costs for the domain and hosting. We need ideas that I would like to see on the site, how it should be presented. In what form - in order to formulate an implementation plan and accordingly find participants in the project.

freehosting.kz - since there is a server, it was thought to provide free hosting services for a limited period. Someone may need this for test purposes, someone does not know whether he needs it and if there are enough opportunities, etc. In the future, of such clients, a certain percentage (albeit insignificant) may become regular customers for a certain fee, but someone can still be left with the opportunity to accommodate if the project is interesting and social. The service is planned to be provided inexpensively, with a minimum of support i.e. purely for small sites and pages that do not require much performance. (The server was bought for its projects, and while most of it is not used, therefore, it was thought to launch this project in order to justify the cost of its maintenance)

nedvigimost.kz - the site has actually already been put into test operation with a template design. There is a ready-made design and ideas for its further development. There are options for monetization, but at the moment I think it's too early to think about it. I give as an example that not everything is only in words.

PS:I want to immediately cut off those who say: Ah dude wants him to do everything for free, and then he will kick people, etc. No and no again. I am not interested in employees. It costs me nothing to hire a freelance to make a design, layout, order an engine or buy a ready-made one. Then bring it all together and run. And this will end, I just need like-minded people who are ready to develop projects, participate in their “life”, expand, and fill, so that this does not become one of the dead projects lying on the open spaces of Kaznet. And if sometime, one of the projects starts to generate income, then this will be the total income for all of its participants who participated in its creation and development.

PPS:These are just a couple of sentences of all their thoughts. If Kaznetovtsy like it and there will be a response, I am ready to share further. Interestingly, there are a lot of users from Kazakhstan on Habré? Does anyone have statistics?