Future of Mongolia

Located in the landlocked plateau of Central Asia between China and Russia, Mongolia covers an entire area of 1.566.500 km- it takes the 15th place with its size in the world. Mongolia stretches about 2.400 km form the west to the east and about 1.260 km from the north to the south. The total length of the country's border is 8.156 km. The total area of Mongolia is larger than the combined areas of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
The northern part of the country is covered by forest mountain ranges and the southern part by desert, desert steppe, and steppe areas with low mountains. High snow-capped mountains and glaciers and the eastern part by vast plains and wild heaths dominate the western part. The Mongolian environment has a large variety of features. Mongolia can be divided into six zones; desert, mountain, mountain taiga, mountain forest steppe, arid steppe and taiga.
Mongolia is one of the fastest growing economies in the Asia Pacific region and is fast becoming an influential Internet stakeholder. The rapid Internet growth in Mongolia is reshaping the way business is run. Local conditions require local solutions, assisted and informed by the technical expertise and policy experience of leading Internet community experts. The mutual benefits of this approach are clear. Local Internet communities get exposure to Internet issues of global and regional importance, and access to world class technology and policy experts.
The challenges of improving Internet growth are multifaceted and interrelated, particularly in developing countries like Mongolia. They include, for example, managing critical internet resources, the regulatory and policy environment for information and telecommunications services, access to technical skills and knowledge, language diversity, and reliability of basic infrastructure and services.
This conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia will bring together local and international policy and technical experts, government, network operators, the private sector and the user community to discuss and deliberate on the current state of Internet. It will highlight some of the challenges and opportunities as the Internet scales towards a user base of two billion and beyond, including some of the emerging issues that could affect Internet use and growth in Mongolia.
I will believe Mongolian future is wonderful and nice. Lot of people will proud of Mongolia.