Governance Briefs
Applied analytical notes on AI governance in Uzbekistan and Central Asia. Each note operationalises a specific argument from the Beyond Control essay series through concrete regulatory and institutional cases. Published in English; Russian-language versions are also available.
Published
Analytical Note No. 1 — AI in Uzbekistan: A Question of Manageability, Not Implementation · May 2026 · English
The structural gap between Uzbekistan’s AI regulatory framework and the mechanisms needed to enforce it — and why this window is narrowing faster than in any previous sector.
Analytical Note No. 2 — The Paper Architecture · May 2026 · English
When AI governance frameworks exist but cannot be enforced. The structural gap between Uzbekistan’s regulatory output and the enforcement architecture needed to make it operational.
Forthcoming
Analytical Note No. 3 — The Conflict of Functions
Who audits the regulator?
Analytical Note No. 4 — Audit Without Access
Behavioural datasets and the limits of fiscal oversight.
Analytical Note No. 5 — The Incident Gap
Why the absence of incident protocols is itself a governance failure.
Analytical Note No. 6 — The Rollback Problem
AI scoring in Uzbekistan’s banking sector and the non-linear cost of correction.
Analytical Note No. 7 — The Procurement Trap
How AI procurement decisions lock in governance architecture.
Analytical Note No. 8 — AThree Centralisation Architectures
Comparative analysis: Uzbekistan, India UPI, Brazil Pix.
Analytical Note No. 9 — Why Governance Does Not Scale
The structural limits of transposing developed-economy oversight to emerging institutional environments.
Analytical Note No. 10 — Aligned on Paper
What AI alignment means for institutions that did not build the system.
Analytical Note No. 11 — Sovereignty Without Infrastructure
Digital sovereignty as institutional claim versus operational reality.
Analytical Note No. 12 — Minimum Viable Oversight
What governance architecture can still achieve within structural limits.
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