Regional head Kumar Aksakalov announced the ranking at a meeting at the regional akimat. Participants reviewed progress in digitalisation and artificial intelligence and discussed further priorities.
The number of IT companies in the region rose from 318 in 2022 to 362. The average salary of industry specialists increased nearly 1.5 times compared with 2023, reaching 467,000 tenge in August this year.
In 2025, the volume of cashless payments in the region reached 3.1 trillion tenge, up 55% from 2022. Cashless payments accounted for 84.6% of all payments this year, compared with 74.8% in 2022.
Businesses spent 18.4 billion tenge on digital technologies in 2025, up from more than 10 billion tenge in 2022. A further 9.8 billion tenge was allocated for this purpose in the first half of this year.
According to Aksakalov, digital literacy rose from 82.9% in 2023 to 92.3% in 2025. In the PISA-2025 study, students from the region ranked third in the country for solving digital tasks.
Kostanay Region ranks first in Kazakhstan for the digitalisation of industry. The number of industrial robots at local enterprises grew from two in 2023 to 150 over three years.
Automated production lines and digital systems have been introduced at dairy farms. The next priorities are expanding digital solutions in crop farming, introducing smart irrigation systems and using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Translated from Russian using artificial intelligence. Source: Kostanay City Akimat
