Аннотации:
Information and Communication technologies (ICT) play a significant role in the educational processbecoming a powerful tool of interaction between teachers and students; computer applications are used to presentuseful teaching resources and to improve knowledge of students.This article aims to examine the educational policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the framework of Informationand Communication technology implementation. In this regard, we analyze the level of computerization of schoolsand universities in Kazakhstan, the teachers’ competencies, and computer literacy of population. Based on data andinformation from official documents, reports, and official sources of education, we concluded that the Government ofKazakhstan tries to create the “digital society” and to increase the quality of education using ICT.The results of the analysis reveal that Kazakhstan make greater effort on using ICT in the education process and thepolicy is aimed at increasing the number of computers in schools, opening new specialties at the universities relatedto information and communication technologies, as well as enhancing computer literacy of the population. However,due to the lack of funding and the comprehensive work on the training and retraining of teachers, the low speed ofthe Internet in some regions of the country, this process needs to be improved.
