Capgemini, a Paris-based global leader technology consulting services, is making available a range of positions in France to people displaced by the war in Ukraine. Jobs are available in the fields of digital, cloud, cybersecurity, data, finance and intelligent industry — from digital transformation consultants, to software engineers, to data scientists, to graphic designer. Applicants …
Last week Google announced a $5 million fund to provide Ukrainian startups with equity-free cash awards throughout 2022. Dubbed ‘Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund,’ it will also convey “ongoing Google mentorship, product support and Cloud credits” to startups “on a rolling basis.” “This hands-on support is designed to help Ukrainian entrepreneurs maintain and grow their businesses, strengthen …
Launched by the FREE Ukraine Foundation jointly with the Ukrainian venture capital and private equity association (UVCA), this program aims to provide targeted assistance to Ukrainian IT entrepreneurs, their employees and families who are exposed to the war and need help on the ground. These people’s lives, and the existence of their companies – which …
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Ukraine has vowed to make Russia pay for the economic damage caused by its invasion, with the total cost to the economy currently estimated at $564.9 billion. The government has also announced new support for internally displaced people, powered by its groundbreaking Diia public service app. The assistance will be available through the Ukrainian government’s …
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A month on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian IT sector remains resilient, robust, and a crucial part of the country’s economy. A stable source of foreign exchange earnings, the sector is also helping to ensure the digital security of the Ukrainian state: five per cent of IT workers have signed up for …
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Ukraine started auctioning off a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Friday in an expansion of a cryptocurrency fundraising push that Kyiv says has already collected more than $65 million for its war effort. The ‘Meta History: Museum of War’ collection is a series of digital images – including silhouettes of warplanes, screengrabs of news …
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Social media messaging has become a crucial battleground complementing the Ukrainian military’s performance on the physical front lines, as images and information ripple out on Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and TikTok. “We are experiencing the war very viscerally through social media feeds,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based international-affairs …
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In a strong symbol of the crash of Russia’s technology sector, Miro, a US-based decacorn created in Russia eleven years ago, announced last week it was closing its office and stopping sales in its native country. “We are devastated by the escalating war and human tragedy in Ukraine. We continue to call for a swift end …
Ukraine has passed a law that creates a legal framework for the cryptocurrency industry in the country. The law allows foreign and Ukrainian cryptocurrencies exchanges to operate legally, according to the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed the law as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues underscoring the important role that …
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The Ukrainian government is to launch a non-fungible token marking the history of the Russian invasion with unique digital art, in its latest use of digital assets to fund its war efforts. The country’s deputy minister of digital transformation, Alex Bornyakov, said the NFT collection would be “like a museum of the Russian-Ukrainian war. We want to …
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Ukraine’s defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology, the company’s chief executive told Reuters, after the U.S. startup offered to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead. Ukraine is receiving free access to Clearview AI’s powerful search engine for faces, letting authorities potentially vet people of interest at checkpoints, …
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In normal times, Vadim Lobarev would spend his day sifting through job candidates’ CVs, filtering out the best from the worst. Today he’s stationed at a Ukrainian military checkpoint, rifle in hand, trying to filter out harmless, civilian passers by from Russian informants who might be sending intelligence to the country’s invaders. The 41-year-old is …
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