Uzbekistan’s Tech Frontier: From Silk Road Legacy to Central Asia’s Silicon Valley Challenger

The Silk Road opened a dynamic commercial and cultural corridor between East and West which has in many ways defined the modern world. Uzbekistan stood at the centre of a global network of scholars, inventers, craftsmen and merchants, whose contact advanced our collective understanding of everything from science and medicine to philosophy and theology.

With the rise of its first tech unicorn – digital services ecosystem Uzum – Uzbekistan is once more establishing itself as a key outpost in a global quest for innovation and…