On September 30, 2023, the Department of Philosophy and Political Science of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University held an international round table "Problems and prospects for the development of digital humanities in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the EU". That was the final step of the project "Digital humanities in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Local solutions for global problems (2020-2023)".

During the round table Zhanna Aubakirova, PhD, Associate Professor, and Eleonora Stolyarova, PhD in Social Sciences, presented the report on the use of digital technologies in socio-demographic research. They shared about the projects implemented by the DSR and about the important role of digital tools in the analysis of social processes.

Among the participants of the round table were experts and scientists representing scientific centers of different countries such as Kazakhstan, Estonia, India, Uzbekistan and others. This meeting was another opportunity to expand the horizons of international scientific and educational cooperation in the new conditions of digitalization, to show the potential of digital methods in the field of social sciences, and to outline ways of further development of digital humanities in the Central Asian region.

At the end of the round table, the participants exchanged relevant information about the main directions of their work and unanimously recognized the need for a broader international collaboration to promote the ideas and principles of digital humanities. This is necessary not only in the research and educational space, but also in the issues of economic transformation, taking into account the new market needs for qualitatively new specialists with a high level of digital literacy and sufficient qualifications to analyze and design social processes.

ISRC "DSR"