About 400 printed media to be available in the Internet by the yearend
13:57, 18 December 2013
Astana. December 18. KAZINFORM - Around 400 printed media will be available in the Internet by the yearend, according to Bolat Kalyanbekov, head of the information and culture ministry's committee for information and archives.
"Starting this year, Kazakhstan has been implementing a state program "Media Kazakhstan - 2020". Under it, in the first half of 2013, 205 printed media opened Internet sites sponsored from the state purse. By the yearend, the figure will grow to 400", - B.Kalyanbekov said at an Astana-hosted workshop on enhancing competitiveness of Kazakh media.
He also noted that a priority goal of the state program is development of domestic media space. "Unfortunately, our regional media are much behind the republican trends. They work in the old fashion preferring the hard-copy format", - Kalyanbekov added.