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Twenty-five years away, then a roadshow through nineteen cities.

A Microsoft principal manager came home and built the organisation he could not find.

Shavkat Karimov

6 min read

What this case turns on

  1. 01Problem
  2. 02Constraint
  3. 03Decision
  4. 04Move
  5. 05Result

2 links in this chain are not yet documented. We have left them open rather than filling them in.

01The Problem

Inferred

That no organised national IT community existed.

Asserted in the research, but no cited document establishes it — and it is a claim about the world that could be checked.

02The Constraint

Not established

The research does not reach this part of the story yet. We would rather leave the gap open than fill it.

No source describes any obstacle he faced.

03The Decision

Documented

Return to Uzbekistan after twenty-five years in the USA and Canada and build a community organisation rather than take a corporate role.

this is the moment agency is visible
  • Article IT Park

04The Move

Documented

Founded the IT Community of Uzbekistan and launched the IT Community Roadshow, a nationwide series of free public events, from October 2024.

  • Article IT Park
  • Article Kursiv Uzbekistan

05The Result

Documented

The roadshow reached nineteen cities across all nine regions and more than 3,500 participants in its first season.

  • Article Kursiv Uzbekistan

Agency signals

Each names the section that shows it

What this decision demonstrates.

  1. Community Building

    Builds the thing that lets other people act.

    Shown in The Move

  2. Self-Authorship

    Writes their own brief rather than accepting the one they were handed.

    Shown in The Decision

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Where this case is used as evidence.

Sources

Where this comes from.

A claim only counts as documented when it is carried by someone outside the people involved. For this case that is Kursiv Uzbekistan.

  1. First IT Roadshow from Uzbekistan IT Community

    Kursiv Uzbekistan · 2024-10-21

    ArticleIndependent reporting

  2. IT Community was launched in Uzbekistan!

    IT Park

    ArticlePublished by an involved organisation

  3. Community profile — membership and coverage

    IT Community of Uzbekistan

    DocumentPublished by an involved organisationConnected to the subject

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