Kazakhstan climbs to 60th in the Government AI Readiness Index 2025
Astana - Kazakhstan has advanced from 76th to 60th place in the Government AI Readiness Index 2025, according to the latest release from Oxford Insights. The country posted a regional score of 55.87, placing third in Southern and Central Asia.
The Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development noted that the rise reflects stronger institutions, maturing infrastructure, and active AI use across public services. A standout is the shift toward proactive, citizen-centric service delivery-an area where momentum is visible.
Key scores (2025)
- Policy Capacity: 88.00
- Public Sector Adoption: 73.59
- Governance: 64.63
- AI Infrastructure: 50.15
- Resilience: 39.76
- Development & Diffusion: 39.30
Why this matters for government leaders
Policy and adoption are strong. Now the task is to turn that policy strength into delivery at scale-reliable infrastructure, secured data pipelines, and consistent standards across agencies.
This is the window to set procurement rules, workforce skills, and oversight so AI improves outcomes without adding risk or complexity to operations.
What likely drove the improvement
- Institutional setup: Clearer mandates and capacity to coordinate AI policy across ministries.
- E-government momentum: Wider use of digital public services and pilots moving into production.
- Proactive services: Movement from application-based delivery to anticipatory formats for citizens and businesses.
Where to focus next (practical actions)
- AI Infrastructure (50.15): Expand secure compute access for agencies, shared model hosting, and data integration platforms. Set minimum uptime, latency, and cost targets for AI-enabled services.
- Resilience (39.76): Stand up AI incident response playbooks, red-teaming, model and data lineage tracking, and independent audits. Require fallback modes for critical services.
- Development & Diffusion (39.30): Publish reusable components-APIs, prompts, datasets-and a registry of approved models. Incentivize cross-agency reuse to reduce duplicated spend.
- Governance (64.63): Operationalize rules with simple checklists: data rights, bias tests, human oversight points, procurement clauses, and audit trails.
- Public Sector Adoption (73.59): Move beyond pilots. Tie AI projects to 3-5 clear service-level metrics (processing time, accuracy, cost per case, user satisfaction) and review quarterly.
- Workforce capacity: Upskill program managers, policy teams, and procurement officers-not just data scientists. Make AI literacy mandatory for roles that approve or monitor AI use.
Regional position
Kazakhstan ranks third in Southern and Central Asia with a score of 55.87. That standing is competitive-improving infrastructure and resilience could close the gap with regional leaders.
About the index
The Government AI Readiness Index assesses how well governments can use AI across public administration, the economy, and society while keeping development safe, responsible, and sustainable. It covers 195 countries and is the only international ranking focused on government capability in AI.
Source: Oxford Insights: Government AI Readiness Index
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